How to make a coupe door with your own hands

For the organization of personal space in the apartment and house should install interior doors. So, each family member will feel more assured. In most cases, hinged doors are installed that open wide. However, technology is moving forward. The focus is on saving space. Given this and other nuances, coupe doors were developed. In this article, you can learn the subtleties of how to make a compartment door with your own hands.

Varieties

If you like this door option, then you should consider the pros and cons. There are several types of them. For example, you can install one or two canvases that will move along a wall or in a false wall. In this case, it will be possible to isolate individual rooms. Sometimes doors can consist of several movable canvases and fixed side flaps. Most often these doors are installed for the purpose of zoning the room.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands Glass doors of the compartment

Regardless of the type of door chosen, the principle of their installation is the same. The only difference will be in the guide profile on which the door will move. As for the doors, they can be made of different materials, for example:

Laminated chipboard.
MDF.
Tempered glass.
Solid wood.
Combination of several materials.

Based on the selected door material, their weight will be different. So the sliding mechanism system will be selected individually under the weight of the whole structure. For example, if the door has a weight of about 30 kg, then it will be enough to install 2 carriages. If the weight of the door increases, then accordingly it is necessary to add the number of carriages.

Features

How to make a coupe door with your own hands

The main advantage of the compartment doors can be called their ergonomics. However, this is not the only feature of such doors. Here you can highlight the following points:

It is not necessary to put a lot of effort to open or close the doors. Therefore, if there are small children, they will cope with this task on their own. You will not need to constantly get up for this procedure.
If there are drafts, the door will never slam.
The compartment doors can simultaneously perform two functions: area zoning, as well as divide rooms into separate rooms.
If there are disabled people in the family, then such doors (suspended or on a hidden rail) do not have a threshold, and this is an additional advantage for safe movement.

But to be objective, these doors also have their negative sides:

If a false wall is built, then a clear lack of sound insulation will be immediately felt.
If the door moves along the partition, it is impossible to place large-sized objects close to the wall.
Locks for the coupe door are much more expensive than usual. Therefore, not every such door and their equipment will be affordable.

Types of sliding door systems

How to make a coupe door with your own hands

Compartment doors are divided into 2 basic types:

Rail doors.
Suspended.

Based on the name, it’s easy to understand the difference. In suspended doors, the entire load falls on the guide, which is fixed at the top. In the rail system of opening / closing is the opposite, the load falls on the bottom. If the mechanism was purchased from a reliable manufacturer, then both systems are reliable.

However, when choosing it is important to consider some features. For example, there are rollers that are able to hold the weight of the door to 100 kg. Accordingly, to add to this the weight of the door and get a design that will be extremely difficult to move. For this reason, it is worth taking seriously the choice of each element of the door.

What is needed for the manufacture of

How to make a coupe door with your own hands

In fact, it is not difficult to make your own interior doors. Moreover, not much material is required. In detail, we consider the necessary structural elements, and then we will be able to figure out how to assemble and install it yourself.

Laminated chipboard. It is possible to make a cloth of doors from a chipboard. For this it is better to choose a canvas with a thickness of at least 16 mm. If thinner, then during operation the door will sag, as a result, after a while the door will lose its presentable appearance. You will also need an aluminum profile for edging chipboard around the perimeter. This will extend the service life of the coupe doors, as it will give the structure rigidity.
System of rollers and guides. It's all simple. You should purchase a complete set of rollers and guides. To do this, give preference to a reliable manufacturer. You can also find a lot of DIY craftsmen who design the roller system on their own. Moreover, it is necessary to decide which system will be suspended or on the rail. Accordingly, a suitable system is selected.
Fittings. These include a dead lock and handles.They must also be reliable and of high quality. In the lock for sliding doors there is no customary tongue that protrudes from the canvas of an ordinary swing door. It has a special locking mechanism. The design of the lock has a special movable hook.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands Sliding door handles

Fasteners. By this are meant self-tapping screws or dowels, with which it will be possible to fix the system of rollers and guides to the floor or ceiling.
Picks and trim. They are required in order to disguise all fasteners, and the very framing of the doorway to make beautiful.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands The mechanism of the compartment doors

In essence, this is the whole set of material that is needed for manufacturing sliding doors. As for the tool, here the set consists of the following:

Electric jigsaw.
Screwdriver.
Drill.
Hand-held circular saw.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands Toolkit

Manual milling cutter, which is required for cutting grooves.
Screwdriver set.
Pliers.
Hammer, etc.

With all of this, you can proceed to the assembly.

Manufacturing sequence

How to make a coupe door with your own hands

The most important rule that applies to all types of compartment doors is a perfectly flat surface. Only in this case, the door will work flawlessly and for a long time. Therefore, before you install the door, make sure that the screed is flat and of good quality. If necessary, fill it strictly on the level. If this is not done, then the doors can arbitrarily open or close. The maximum difference is allowed, which is equal to 5 mm. If it is larger, it will be impossible to adjust the rollers.

Before installing the compartment door, carry out a series of works related to wall decoration. If all this is left for later, the doors can be accidentally ruined. Even closing them with cellophane will not save, because it can break through or you can accidentally catch it with a sharp object, such as a spatula.

You should also decide how the doors will open / close either along the wall, or if you need to make a false-wall.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands The system of rollers and guides

So, now we proceed directly to the manufacturing process. It is divided into several consecutive steps:

First mount the guides. Top and bottom rails must be trimmed accurately. Otherwise, the design will not have a presentable appearance. As for the upper and lower guides, they should have a clear horizontal with respect to each other. Therefore, when installing, use a plumb or a very accurate level corresponding to the length.
Next, you need to make a door leaf. Consider an example where a doorway has a width of 1800 mm. Accordingly, if the flap is 2, then this length is divided in half, it turns out 900 mm each door leaf. If the flaps are installed along different guides, then 50 mm must be added to overlap one flap with another. If not, you do not need to add. In this case, a lock will be installed in the end of two canvases.
After cutting the sheet to size, remove all chipped along the edges. Chipboard around the perimeter enveloped aluminum profile. This will make the door leaf tough and durable enough. As an option, the profile can be glued to the canvas or in the end screw the screws.
The next step is to install the rollers. Without a manual milling machine to perform this work will be problematic. Although it will also depend on the selected system. So, apply the roller to the bottom of the particle board, from the edge up to 100 mm. Circle it with a pencil. On the resulting sketch, you need to cut the landing groove. After it, mount the rollers and fix with screws.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands Installing the clips

Be sure to adjust the rollers. To do this work is necessary only when the canvas is installed on the guide.
Finally, it remains to install knobs and locks. They crash on the same principle as the videos.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands Lower guide

During work, be sure to note the difference in mounting. If the door will hide in a false-wall, then first of all the guides are mounted, and only then the partition. At the same time, the guides should be covered so that during the installation the walls do not damage it or do not fall asleep much. If the doors will open along the partition, the guides are simply screwed to the floor and ceiling after all the finishing work.

How to make a coupe door with your own hands The upper guide

As regards the installation of doors, this is the simplest and the final stage. Carefully drive the rollers on the rails and check the operation of the door.Pay attention to whether a gap is formed between the two closed canvases. If so, then you need to adjust the rollers.

So, apparently, it is quite possible to make such doors by yourself. We learned that the installation does not include complex technological processes. And with basic carpentry tools, you will be able to complete the work in a short amount of time. If you already have experience in their manufacture, be sure to write comments at the end of this article. We and our readers will be interested to know what difficulties you encountered in the process of work.