Relatively recently, the acquisition of a good interior door began with the order of her in the carpentry workshop. Today, it is not necessary - any large construction store is ready to offer you a lot of options for all kinds of doors for every taste and purse. Plastic interior doors became a real find and firmly occupied their niche.
Varieties of plastic interior doors
Classify these products can be based on several features. So, on design features it is possible to allocate swinging, sliding and interior plastic doors-accordions .
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More common are classic swing doors . Interior plastic doors-compartments are becoming more popular. Garmoshki can not boast of great strength and durability, therefore do not enjoy special demand.
According to the type of door leaf plastic interior doors can be with glass (partial glazing), with a full-size double-glazed window or with a blanket.
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Depending on the number of doors and their design features, interior plastic doors can be double (double-leafed) and single-leaf. In form, they can be rectangular or arched. However, the latter option is rarely used, because the plastic does not bend like other materials, it has to be broken in many places, why the view at the door turns out, to put it mildly, not very.
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What should I look for when buying plastic doors?
To ensure that the door has served you for a long time and did not upset you by premature failure, you need to pay attention to the following points:
- Quality of the profile. As in the case with plastic windows, the larger the chamber door, the better the sound insulation. However, and it is not necessary to get carried away. In principle, enough doors with 3-4 cameras to ensure good sound insulation. The best producers of plastic products, including doors, today are KBE, Thyssen, Rehau, Veka.
- Quality of accessories. These are locks, hinges, pens. It is extremely important that they are of the highest quality, otherwise the very best door will be uncomfortable. In order not to get yourself into trouble, just buy the highest quality hardware.
Advantages and disadvantages of plastic interior doors
Plastic doors have many advantages and almost no shortcomings. The merits include the following:
- High performance. It means that during use the doors do not change shape, they do not deform, they do not shrink and swell, they practically do not get injured from mechanical impact (they do not break from strong impacts). All this - thanks to the aluminum profile at the base of the door.
- Stunning moisture resistance. Plastic interior door is ideal for a bathroom, boiler room and other similar premises, because it does not absorb moisture and does not react to temperature changes.
- Easy to care - smooth plastic surfaces are easy to clean and clean from dirt and dust.
- A wide variety of colors, shapes and textures. If you see white interior plastic doors seem boring, you can order any tint and make them bright and unique.
Disadvantages of plastic doors:
- No matter how much they talk about the strength and stability of plastic drawers, scratches and abrasions can still form on their surface. And the aluminum profile can not protect it.
- Due to the full tightness of the plastic doors, there is no airing in the room and the atmosphere becomes stuffy.
- All efforts to decorate and laminate to imitate natural wood will not help make it "alive" and "warm", like a real wooden door.