How to adjust the entrance metal door. How to adjust the metal front door of the house: problems and solutions

Each mechanism needs to be adjusted to one degree or another; adjusting doors with your own hands is not an easy task, but quite real. Next, we will analyze in detail how to adjust the hinges, we will try to adjust the clamp and lock. And the owners of Chinese doors will learn how to adjust the doors from China at home.

Self-adjusting the door is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.

How to prepare doors for customization

Before adjusting the doors yourself, they must be well lubricated. Often, a slight creak in the door after a competent lubricant change completely disappears. There are 3 most common causes that lead to an imbalance in the mechanism.

1. Bad lubrication. If the cause of the squeak is a lack of lubrication or the wrong lubricant, then you can consider yourself lucky. Replacing door grease is not tricky and takes no more than an hour, and such work does not require special professional skills;
2. Canopy imbalance. The problem is serious, but fortunately fixable. Effective adjustment of door hinges largely depends on the type of mechanism. In principle, any canopy can be adjusted at least a little, but the only question is whether fine tuning is provided for this design, and what is its amplitude;
3. Basically, this "disease" is inherent in new buildings and the reason here is the low professionalism of installers. A new house always shrinks, and when installing doors, the craftsmen must leave a tolerance for this shrinkage. With minor deformations, the problem can be solved with your own hands, and to eliminate a serious skew, you need to call craftsmen with special equipment.

With minor deformations, the structure can be corrected by hand, and to eliminate a radical skew with a change in the geometry of the canopies, it is necessary to call professionals

Important! If the iron door was installed officially, under the contract and at the time of the creaking or minor problems, the guarantee is still valid, repairing the doors with your own hands will lead to the fact that the company will refuse its obligations and will be right under the law, so do not take risks, immediately call the masters.

How to grease doors

In case of any breakdowns, the adjustment of the front door should begin with a lubricant change. This procedure is not tricky and it is divided into 2 stages, first you need to try to remove the old grease, and then upload a new one in its place.

The easiest way to change the lubricant is on removable papa-mother type hinges. To clean the canopies, the door leaf needs to be removed, but the metal door weighs decently, so put a wooden bar next to the door and use a crowbar to lift the canvas with a lever. It is not advisable to do this alone, someone must insure the canvas so that it does not fall.

Then take a clean rag and remove all the dirt along with the old grease. According to the rules, in order to completely remove the grease from the mechanism, it must be washed with kerosene, but sheds are not such a complex mechanism and a clean rag is enough here.

Simple door canopy is easy to clean with a rag

Advice! To remove corrosion and emergency lubrication of mechanisms, there is now such a wonderful tool asWD-40. It is sold in an aerosol can with a tube for remote pumping. The agent is injected into the mechanism and after half an hour the mechanism can be developed.

WD-40 is intended for emergency removal of corrosion and development of the mechanism, but after its application, the mechanism must in any case be lubricated with profile grease

If it is not possible to remove the doors from the canopies, then use the WD-40 tool. On simple male-mother type loops, there must be a hole for lubrication on the top or side. It can be closed with a screw or completely open.

You need to pump WD-40 into this hole and after half an hour wipe everything that flows out from under the canopy. Further, profile lubricant is pumped into the same hole. With hidden awnings, we act in the same way. Pour in WD-40, wipe off the dirt and pump in normal grease.

Advice! To make the old grease come out of the mechanism faster, the canopy can be heated with a hairdryer, but you need to heat it without fanaticism. So when heated with a gas burner or a blowtorch, the metal will simply lead and the canopy will jam completely.

Each canopy has a hole for pumping grease, ideally this should be closed with a screw, but this rule is not always observed.

Now a few words about how door hinges are lubricated.

• At the moment, silicone grease is considered the best composition, it is all-penetrating, water-repellent and perfectly protects the metal. True, compared to competitors, the price is higher there, but you need a little of it;
• Second in quality is gun grease, it performs well in castles and sheds, the only problem is that such oil is not sold in every hardware store;
• The most affordable is household universal machine oil, in the common people a spindle. The price of the composition is affordable and the fluidity is good, but this oil is not advisable to use at low temperatures.

The most common products designed to lubricate awnings and door locks

There are also thick lubricants, such as grease, lithol and the like. But in order to lubricate the canopy with high quality, you must either remove the door leaf from the hinges, or use a special syringe to pump the composition into the mechanism, which is not always possible in domestic conditions.

Greases are great for door canopies, but you need a special syringe to pump the compound inside.

How to adjust the door yourself - 5 options

Now let's talk about how to adjust the front door. First you need to find out why the door began to close poorly or creak. Often, after lubricating canopies and locks, the true cause of the breakdown “crawls out” by itself.

Option number 1. If the awnings are not adjustable

Canopies for metal doors are divided into adjustable and unregulated. Unregulated include canopies such as dad-mother, they are also called garage hinges. They are arranged simply, a part with a pin, called the father, is welded to the supporting frame, and a reciprocal glass (mother) is welded to the door leaf.

If we exclude the skew of the box, then most often such doors sag under their own weight and begin to touch the threshold. You can save the situation and raise the door leaf with the help of gaskets. For such cases, 3 types of gaskets are used.

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	Such bearings are sold and are relatively inexpensive. To purchase the desired model, you need to accurately measure the diameter of the pin and the outer diameter of the canopy, after which you go to the market and select the required model. Then you remove the doors, put the bearing on the pin and return the canvas to its place.
	To raise the canvas by 1 - 2 mm, you can put it on a pin, the so-called grower, but this is more of a temporary option. As already mentioned, steel doors have an impressive weight, and with intensive use, even the durable metal of the growers is erased quickly enough.
	An old tried and true method. Find a steel ball from the bearing (there are balls on the market) and put it inside the glass. To prevent the ball from falling out when laying, the glass is pre-stuffed with grease. The strength of the metal in such balls is so great that they can easily withstand even the weight of garage doors, not to mention the front doors.

Important! Whichever gasket you choose, it must be installed on all canopies welded to the canvas. If you install the gasket on only one canopy, then the entire mass of the door leaf will fall on it and over time, either the canopy will crack or the doors will deform.

Option number 2. Adjustable hinges

Hinged hinges are installed on many domestic doors with the ability to fine-tune horizontally. In this case, the adjustment of the entrance doors does not require the dismantling of the canvas, respectively, you can handle it alone. The algorithm of actions is approximately as follows:

• Open the doors and find the internal screw on the side of the glass;
• Usually these screws are made for an internal hexagon, you need to loosen it, you should not completely turn it out;

The fixing screw on the side needs to be loosened.

• Then the doors close and on the front side you need to loosen the adjusting screw, this screw is under the canopy;
• After loosening it, the door leaf can be moved to the right or left up to 3 mm;
• To move a heavy door leaf horizontally, you do not need to rest, it is enough to lay some kind of plate suitable in thickness, for example, a ruler, at the problem point;

To move the door leaf horizontally, loosen the bottom screw

After leveling the canvas, all screws must be returned to their original position. This is done in the reverse order, first clamp the bottom screw, and after it, open the doors and clamp the side screw.

When aligning the doors, only the canopy that is closer to the problem point is adjusted. Often the canvas clings to the box either from below or from above. For example, if the problem arose from above, then only the upper canopy is regulated, in the case when there are 3 canopies, the middle and upper canopy is weakened, the lower one remains clamped.

Option number 3. Setting up plastic doors

Metal-plastic doors are of 2 types - balcony and entrance. Sheds on them are installed different, respectively, and the setting is different. But first things first, when the balcony door does not close well, you need to do the following:

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	Step 1 If the balcony door rests on the side hooks on the box, it must be moved horizontally away from these hooks. But first, decide on the amount of shift, often a couple of millimeters is enough, but in general in this way you can move the canvas up to 10 mm.
	Step 2 Balcony canopy with ventilation mode consists of two parts. You need to open the door leaf and find a hole for the hexagon at the very bottom of the canopy, you need an H4 bit here.
	Step 1 The vertical is also regulated by the lower canopy, only this time we need the upper part of it. First, remove the cover from the top of the canopy. She moves up.
	Step 2 The vertical is also regulated by the H4 hexagon. To get to the vertical adjustment point of the doors, you need to insert the hex from the top, so the tool here is needed with a long sting. Depending on which direction you turn the hexagon, the doors will go up or down.
	For the clamp in the balcony doors and plastic windows, eccentrics or, as they are also called, trunnions are responsible. The trunnions have 3 clamping positions - weak, standard and strong clamp. When the eccentric is rotated, it takes the desired position. Round pins are adjusted with a hexagon, oval with pliers.

Now we will study the algorithm for adjusting the canopies on the entrance plastic doors.

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	All such awnings are covered with a plastic overlay, in order to get to the adjusting mechanism, you need to remove this overlay. To do this, open the door leaf and find the screw at the end of the canopy that needs to be unscrewed.
	After removing the box, the adjustment mechanism will open for you. The required screw is located at the end of the mechanism. The head there is made for a hexagon, the diagram on the left shows the principle of adjustment.
	The adjustment screw for fine adjustment of the vertical is located at the top of the canopy. To get to it, you need to remove the plug, it is either unscrewed or simply removed. Important! The pressure on the entrance plastic doors can be adjusted either with trunnions (similar to balcony doors), or with the help of a hexagon installed at the bottom of the canopy.

Adjustment of aluminum doors is carried out in the same way as adjustment of plastic ones; they have similar canopies. True, sometimes there are new, somewhat modified canopies on aluminum doors, they are regulated a little differently.

The diagrams below show the general principle of setting up aluminum doors, and in the video in this article you will find step-by-step instructions for aluminum doors.

Standard adjustment scheme for aluminum doors

The principle and possibilities of fine adjustment of canopies for aluminum doors

There are often problems with the lock in plastic and aluminum doors, and the lock itself seems to work, and the doors do not close tightly or do not close at all. Usually the problem is caused by the striker of the lock, it is adjustable in such mechanisms (the striker is located on the door frame).

The technology for setting the striker is simple and accessible even for a complete amateur. You need to loosen the fixing screws next to the bar, after which the bar hook can be moved horizontally. Then slightly push the hook in the right direction and tighten the fixing screws again.

To adjust the clamping bar, you need to loosen the 2 screws located next to this bar.

Option number 4. Chinese door customization

An iron Chinese door can be called a stretch, the metal there is thin, plus many mechanisms are made of incomprehensible alloys. Professionals rarely take up the adjustment of Chinese doors, so the owners have to come up with something themselves.

To be honest, not all mechanisms in such designs are adequately tuned. In order for the Chinese door to close normally, it is usually necessary to adjust the hinges. Next, we will talk about how real the awning setup is and how to adjust the internal hinges from our friends from the Middle Kingdom.

Even if it seems to you that the canopies on the doors are clean and beautiful, still spray WD-40 into them and put scrap under the bottom of the canvas, try to lift the doors slightly. Such a step will allow the lubricant to penetrate more deeply, and at the same time you will find out what kind of play the doors have.

You can measure the backlash of Chinese doors by lifting them with a crowbar

When you buy Chinese doors, you need to carefully inspect all the awnings. According to the rules, under each internal canopy there should be 2 special washers (they are clearly visible when the doors are open).

Half of Chinese firms put such expansion joints on only 1 canopy, as a result, the entire load falls on it and the doors quickly fail. And it’s painless to add such a washer, you can only while the doors are not yet inserted into the opening.

Under each canopy of Chinese doors there should be 2 compensating washers

• After lubrication, it is necessary to release 4 hexagon bolts, the bolts go along the perimeter of the canopy;
• In the center we have an adjusting screw, but this screw is lockable, so first we release the nut by 17;

To get to the adjusting screw, you must first loosen the screws around the perimeter, and then loosen the locknut in the center

Advice! Often the hex screws that go around the perimeter are over tightened. The metal on them is weak and if you apply force, the edges will stick together, so before unscrewing, spray WD-40 on them.

• Inside the canopy, the adjusting screw has the shape of an eccentric, in fact, due to this, the mechanism is adjusted;
• But in half of the Chinese doors this eccentric either does not exist, or it does not work. If you are faced with such a situation, then take a powerful screwdriver and rely on the door leaf, according to the principle of a lever, move the canopy to the desired position;
• When the door is in place, tighten the fixing screws around the perimeter and tighten the nut in the center.

If the adjusting screw does not work, you can try to move the plate with a screwdriver

Option number 5. How to adjust door pressure

If your new doors are difficult to close, then the reason may be thick seals around the perimeter. There is nothing wrong with that, after a couple of weeks the seal will take its place and the doors will start to close normally.

You should not save on the quality of the sealing tape, cheap models will have to be changed every 2 months

It is worse if the door frame is deformed, in which case it will have to be leveled, but first you need to determine the problem area. This is done simply, take a sheet of paper and clamp it with a door leaf. If, after closing the doors, the sheet is removed, then the box is deformed at this point.

A sheet of paper after closing the doors is removed only in those areas where the box is deformed

In the doorway, the box is fixed either with anchor bolts or iron crutches. With anchor bolts, everything is simple, you will need to unscrew a couple of anchors in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe deformed box.

It is impossible to remove the crutches, they are cut off by a grinder, and after leveling the box, they are hammered into a new place and welded to the eye.

Professionals usually fix the door frame with anchor bolts.

If the rack of the box is pressed into the doorway, then you need to drive the crowbar between the rack and the wall, and then bend the rack according to the lever principle. When bending to any other side, the rack is leveled with a sledgehammer or a powerful hammer.

In order not to spoil the box and increase the contact area upon impact, a wide and thick plank is superimposed on the rack. At the end of the procedure, the doors are again fixed with anchors or crutches. Often, after such alignment, new holes have to be drilled under the anchor.

If the rack is bent outward, then you can level it with a sledgehammer or hammer, through the gasket

Advice! After such radical procedures, the mounting foam around the perimeter of the box will probably crack. To prevent leakage through the cracks, they must either be blown out again with foam or covered with sealants.

Conclusion

As you can see, with a strong desire to adjust the doors with your own hands, it’s quite realistic, at least the methods that were described above definitely work. If after studying the diagrams, photos and videos in this article there are questions or vice versa, you have something to add, then welcome to the comments, let's chat.

Is your door not closing properly? Has the door leaf sagged significantly? Having problems with the tongue and lock bolts? These are not joke problems, because at some point you may simply not leave the apartment or not get into it. Reliable and timely adjustment of the front door locks is a guarantee of long-term service and trouble-free operation of the structure.

How to adjust the locks on the entrance metal doors - setting the correct entry of the tongue and lock bolts

Of course, a creak or a bad vestibule of the door leaf is something that overshadows the life of the customer. However, this does not mean at all that it is necessary to immediately purchase a new door or locking mechanism. After all, all devices, accessories need maintenance. In such cases, you can not do without adjusting the locks. What is included in this service?
Here are the main jobs:

• adjustment of the lock tongue;
• diagnostics of malfunction of an entrance door;
• porch adjustment;
• replacement of a worn seal;
• cleaning, lubrication of door hinges and locks, their subsequent adjustment;
• replacement of loops (in some cases) and other related work.

Often, some residents of Moscow prefer to perform these seemingly simple actions on their own. However, the solution is not the best. It promises problems and risks in the future. Having carried out the work with your own hands, without knowledge of the design, you will not have any guarantees that the adjusted lock is working. The optimal and right decision is to entrust the adjustment of locks on metal entrance doors to us.

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Metal doors are one of the best options for protecting your home from unauthorized entry. Such doors not only reliably protect the house, but serve for a long time. In addition, modern door models look attractive and fit perfectly into the interior. But even a very good door, over time, can begin to hide poorly, or an unpleasant creak can be heard when the sash moves. To fix the problem, it is necessary to adjust the metal doors, which can be done by hand.

Over time, even the most durable and high-quality metal doors can begin to close poorly. When this problem appears, it is not at all necessary to urgently change the door, in most cases, adjusting the opening mechanism (hinges), which can be done with your own hands, will help solve the problem.

For those who have not previously encountered the process of adjusting the front door, video instructions will help to do the job correctly.

Identifying problems

Most of the doors that shops offer today are the products of Chinese enterprises. The fact that the door was assembled in China does not at all indicate its poor quality, you just need to understand that doors manufactured in China require a special approach.

What problems can arise during the operation of the door? Most often, these are:

• Bad (too tight or, on the contrary, loose) door porch;
• A creak that occurs when the door leaf moves.

Advice! If problems appear after a short time after installing the doors, then you should check if the warranty period has expired. In the event that the door is still under warranty, you should call the master, the door adjustment should be carried out free of charge. If the warranty period has expired, you will have to pay for the work of the master, so if you want to save money, you can adjust the doors yourself.

Eliminate a bad pretense

If the metal door leaf is too loose or, on the contrary, too tight in the box, it is necessary to adjust the porch.

If the porch is too tight

Consider how the overly tight porch of the front metal door is adjusted.

• Sometimes with a tight porch, adjustment is not required. This happens immediately after the doors are installed, because due to the fact that the seal is completely new, the canvas is too tight in the box, and the handle has to be turned with effort. However, after a week of operation, as a rule, the situation is resolved, since the seal will “settle down”, and the door will be covered freely.
• The reason for the tight porch of a metal door may be that the lock tongue does not exactly fit into the counterpart located on the locking plate of the box. Such a malfunction is typical for cheap door models. If this is the cause of the tight porch, adjustment is necessary. You will need to find the plate in the recess into which the lock tongue enters. By bending or wrapping it outward, it will be possible to achieve a normal density of the porch.

• In the event that the size of the hole in the reciprocal plate does not match the size of the tongue, or the bar is incorrectly located, then this is a door defect. In this case, the adjustment will not help, you will need to replace the defective model.

If the porch is too loose

If the porch is too loose, a draft is created from under the door, so adjustment will be needed in this case as well.

• First of all, it will be necessary to inspect the seal, since most often, the malfunction is caused by its wear. If necessary, the seal will need to be replaced with a new one.
• In the event that the seal is in order, and the porch is too weak, it is necessary to adjust the plate located in the hole of the lock's counter plate.

Eliminate creaking during the course of the sash

If a creak is heard when opening or closing the metal door leaf, then the reason is most likely in the hinges. In this case, the adjustment of the hinges of the entrance metal door consists, first of all, in cleaning and lubricating the hinges.

It is convenient to clean the hinges from dust with a jet of air; a household hair dryer can be used to perform this work.

Advice! To lubricate the hinges of metal doors, do not use penetrating lubricants (such as WD-40), it is better to use ordinary machine oil.

If the lubrication of the hinges did not give the desired result, then the need to loosen the fastening of the hinges may be the cause of the squeak. The adjustment goes like this:

• With the help of a socket wrench, first the middle loops are weakened;
• Then you will need to loosen the fastening of the loop that creates the creak (upper or lower).
• Now you need to carefully pull the canvas, and then move the canvas to the box and tighten the extreme nut.
• Shaking the canvas, you should ensure that the loops fall into place. After that, the loops are carefully tightened.

• Next, you will need to check the result of the work by opening and closing the door several times. If the creak has not disappeared, it will be necessary to repeat the operations described above, achieving a silent movement of the door leaf.

Possible difficulties

If during the adjustment of the metal front door by the methods described above it was not possible to achieve the desired result, you will have to contact the specialists.

It is possible that in order to fix the problem, it will be necessary to completely replace the worn hinges with new ones.

In addition, difficulties may arise if the door is equipped with hidden hinges. To adjust such loops, you need to use a special tool, so you can not do without the services of specialists. True, hidden hinges require adjustment much less often than ordinary ones.

So, if the front door made of metal began to emit an unpleasant creak when opened or its sash pretends to be bad, adjustment will help correct the situation. You can do the adjustment work yourself. To do the job without errors and shortcomings, you should watch the training video in advance, which shows the main nuances of the work.

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Metal doors were invented to protect the house from thieves, and are one of the main means of protecting a home. Such a door has high strength, is reliable and long-lasting, and in the assortment you can find a design for every taste. But even a reliable design can begin to creak, close poorly. In this case, it will be useful to know how to adjust a poorly functioning metal front door.

The process is quite easy and you can do it yourself with a simple set of tools. If you are not sure how the metal entrance door is adjusted, we recommend that you study the video with the adjustment process.

Basic Methods

Door adjustment is a set of measures that combines the repair of malfunctions and their prevention. Necessary procedures include:

• Lubrication and adjustment of the locking mechanism;
• Cleaning from dust and other contaminants of the functional parts of the door;
• Adjustment of loops and canopies;
• Checking and replacing the sealing gum;
• Adjustment of the closer mechanism;
• Twisting loose fittings.

Almost all of the above processes are quite simple to implement without large expenses. The result will be a problem-free operation of the door, which will perform all the functions and look beautiful. How to achieve such a result? More on this later.

Setting up argument mechanisms

Now the springs for closing doors are in most cases replaced by closers, which make the door last longer. The design of the closer is also based on a spring, which is located in a housing full of oil. Including the door closer also ensures smooth closing of the door. But at the same time, the closer, being a more complex system, requires maintenance, like many other parts of the door, and with its help you can adjust the metal door.

Driver mechanism.

The better the closer works, the more convenient it will be to use the door. The initial adjustment of the entrance doors and their similar elements is done at the installation stage. But during operation, the oil in the vessel thickens and needs to be replaced, and the mechanisms get upset and require maintenance.

How to adjust the closer

To change the slamming speed of the door, you just need to turn one of the adjustment valves in a certain direction. If your door opens and closes quickly or slowly, you also
you will have to use the adjusting nodes, but for this you need to know how to properly and professionally adjust the front door.

Closer adjustment diagram.

To adjust the tension level of the spring, it is necessary to use a special adjusting nut. In the process of maintenance or a life situation, there are times when the door must be left open, for this a special latch was created. You just need to open the door 90 degrees and tighten the latch a little. To adjust the valve against a sharp opening of the door, turn the adjustment nut counterclockwise, if on the contrary, we want to open the door sharply, turn it clockwise. Such an adjustment of aluminum doors will significantly improve the operation of the doors and prevent them from failing for a long time.

If you still don’t understand how to adjust a metal door, videos from professionals in their field are at your service.

Cleaning and adjusting the lock

Sometimes the lock starts to work poorly even if there is no visible problem with hinges and other systems. Almost always this is the fault of the castle itself.

General cleaning and adjustment of your old metal front door can give it a lifespan, such procedures on the lock are especially noticeable, after which it starts working like new. Overhead locks are easily removed from the door, and it is quite easy to clean and lubricate such a device. And it is better to give locks of other types for repair to the master, because they are quite complicated.

The frequency of maintenance measures for locks depends entirely on the working conditions of the latter and the frequency of use. For example, a lock in an apartment door will live without maintenance for about a year, and for a lock in a country house, maintenance is acceptable once every three months. For maximum effect, it is necessary not only to know how to adjust and maintain the front iron door, but also to be able to do it efficiently. This will help a wide range of special equipment that can not only help in removing dirt, but even help to melt the ice.

When choosing a lubricant, it is important not to make a mistake, and choose, depending on the type of mechanism. So, a cylinder lock can not be lubricated at all, but one of its varieties - a deadbolt, must be lubricated with machine oil to reduce the friction of the parts during operation.

Thus, having a cylinder lock, you practically do not have to think about adjusting the doors.

To lubricate the lever locks, you need an ordinary pencil. We slightly crumble the stylus, and pour the resulting crumb into the castle. For greater effect, you can try blowing the lead into the lock. This non-trivial way of adjusting the door with a lead is very useful, because the usual key lubricant for a lever lock will only be harmful, as it will help the mechanism become even more dirty, which will subsequently disable it.

Lubricate the cylinder lock

We spray the necessary cleaning agent into the cylinder until a little of it flows out of the container. After that, you need to insert the key into the lock and remove it, but do not turn it, otherwise the mechanism may jam and you will have to look for how to adjust the aluminum door broken by negligence.

Cross-shaped cylindrical lock.

Next, wipe the grease key with a clean rag, then inject more oil into the cylinder and insert and remove the key again. After the oil has completely spread over the cylinder, insert the key and turn it in different directions several times. Ordinary engine oil can be used to clean and lubricate the cylinder.

How to set up loops?

When adjusting most iron doors, the following tips will be helpful:

• Installation work is very important to carry out, given the size of the gap between the canvas and the upper casing. The gap on the side of the door should be larger than the gap on the side of the canopies, which will make the adjustment process easier in the future;
• Sometimes, immediately after installing the door, there may be a slight, but over time, increasing squeak. This happens when the door rubs against the trim, and it is because of this that the door trim wears out more. To prevent this, it is necessary to adjust the canopies with the screws on them;
• To adjust the doors, loosen the screws on the hinge, they are located near the point of friction, if necessary, loosen the screws of all the hinges;
• Using a flat screwdriver, move the hinges to the side to obtain a gap, this position is fixed with a screw, and after the procedure, the door is closed with the handle pressed all the way;
• If this helped to remove friction, fix the other screws, if the friction has moved to the other side, you should move the movable part of the hinge to the other side and secure. Adjustment of the doors is carried out until the loss of friction.

Tormented by a draft

If a draft “walks” through the front door, the recent adjustment of the door hinges, made due to a defect in the front doors, is not necessarily to blame. Often the air breaks through due to the old seal, always available on iron doors.

To adjust the door, it will be necessary to replace the sealing rubber bands, for which it is necessary to purchase a replaceable strip of the same thickness.

Such a product is always in any hardware store, as well as instructions for it. After the acquisition, the seal should be fixed along the edges of the porch and the draft will recede.

During the operation of the door, it sometimes ceases to close tightly. Just as in the case of a draft, replacing the seal will help. Before changing, make sure that the rebate is the same along the entire length of the door, if so, fasten a new tape around the perimeter. After completing this procedure, there should be another control check, and in case of problems, a do-it-yourself re-adjustment of the aluminum doors is performed.

Any mechanism sooner or later requires adjustment and doors are no exception. Adjusting doors is not the easiest thing, but you can master this science if you wish. Next, we will try to figure out how to adjust the hinges, web pressure, problems with the lock, and so on. We will pay special attention to the question of how to adjust the doors made by our Chinese friends.

Proper adjustment of the door will extend the life of the mechanism at times.

In this case, it is not so important which doors we are talking about, if the structure began to creak, something needs to be done about it. There can be 2 reasons for the squeak:

1. You are very lucky if the design is poorly lubricated, you can eliminate this misunderstanding yourself and quite quickly. You can read about different types of door grease and the intricacies of using certain compounds;
2. The second reason for the creaking is an unbalanced mechanism and fine adjustment of the door hinges is already required here, but in any case, the mechanism must be lubricated before it.

Keep in mind, if you have recently installed your iron door and the warranty has not yet come out, you should not adjust the doors yourself, call the master, but again, do not delay calling the masters, otherwise a slight creak can “get out” into a big breakdown.

A loop not lubricated and not adjusted in time can lead to disastrous consequences.

If it is clearly visible that the hinges are completely rusted, and in addition to the creak, they also move poorly, you don’t need to try to work them out by force or knock down rust, for this there is such a good tool as WD40, spray a couple of times and in half an hour things will go faster.

The easiest way to care for ordinary garage hinges such as dad / mom (as in the photo). Ideally, it is better to remove the door leaf, but the metal structure is heavy and it is problematic to do it alone, so you place some bar under the door leaf and leaning on it slightly lift the door with a crowbar, and then pump grease into the hinges.

The easiest way to remove the old grease is with a rag or sponge.

Many advise blowing the hinges with air, for example, with a hairdryer, in order to remove old grease, this activity is ineffective and often useless. It’s easier to take a clean rag and wipe everything that is possible with your hands, there will be more sense.

Adjusting the front door begins with removing the old grease and applying a new one.

Ways to adjust the entrance doors

The question of how to adjust the front door is not as straightforward as it might seem at first glance, because doors can close poorly for several reasons.

• In half the cases, the reason is really in the loops, and here adjustment of the loops is necessary;
• The second in the ranking of breakdowns is the misalignment of the door frame;
• Among other things, the reason may lurk in the castle.

What to do if the hinges are not adjustable

Hinges are adjustable and non-adjustable. Unregulated are the simplest garage hinges dad / mom. Part of the mechanism with a pin (male) is welded to the door frame, and the second part is welded to the door leaf.

Such hinges are deservedly considered one of the most reliable, but over time, the door leaf sags slightly under its own weight and begins to cling to the threshold of the box.

This problem can be solved in two ways. If the canvas has sagged literally 1 - 2 mm, then you need to find a grower of a suitable diameter and put it on like a gasket on a pin. With steel growers, the metal is quite high quality and it can withstand both pressure and friction, a simple washer will quickly fray and become unusable.

If the door has sagged significantly, then there is another way to raise the hinges. You will need to find a ball from a bearing of a suitable diameter and lay it inside the loop. Fill the hinge hole with grease, insert the ball there and put the door leaf on the hinges. The metal in these balls is even stronger than in growers.

Hinge adjustment

On relatively inexpensive, but still fairly high-quality domestic-made doors, an adjustable version of hinged hinges is installed. Thus, you can center the door leaf horizontally, that is, to the right - to the left.

When the door is open, from the inside you can see a small tilting screw on the side of the hinge, it is loosened first. As a rule, an internal hexagon is used for these purposes.

Once the tilt screw is loosened, go to the front side of the doors, after which the doors close and you will need to slightly loosen the adjusting screw, which is located below. The door leaf can now be moved up to 3 mm to the right or left.

When leveling the web, it is not necessary to loosen the adjusting screws on all hinges, usually the upper or lower hinge is left clamped, only the middle one is loosened and the one closer to which the problem arose.

Having aligned the door leaf, everything is repeated in the reverse order, that is, first you clamp the adjusting screw, and then fix it with a tilt screw.

Adjustment of entrance plastic doors

Plastic doors are entrance and so-called balcony. If the balcony door does not close well, then there are a number of reasons and ways to eliminate them, you can read about this in detail, and also look at the video in this article. We will analyze a simpler option for adjusting the entrance doors.

The hinge mechanism on plastic doors is closed with a box and the adjustment of the entrance doors begins with the removal of this box. To remove the box you need to open the doors and unscrew the small screw on the inside of the hinge. In almost all models, there is a screw for an internal hexagon.

To remove the protective box from the hinge, you need to unscrew the screw from the inside.

When the box is removed, you will see an adjusting screw at the end of the mechanism, it is also made for an internal hexagon of only a larger section. When unscrewing or tightening this screw, this sector of the door leaf will move to the right or left, respectively.

But that's not all, with the same loops you can set the gap from above, below and clamp. To get to the adjustments, you will need to remove the decorative caps on the hinges. Such plugs can be unscrewed with a screwdriver or simply pulled out.

Then everything is just as simple, the corresponding number of the hexagon is inserted inside and with its help the mechanism is adjusted. Do not forget to lubricate the door hinges after completing all adjustments; engine oil is usually used for plastic doors.

Adjusting aluminum doors is somewhat similar to adjusting plastic ones, moreover, sometimes similar hinges are installed on them, but in most cases there are special hinges, and how to set them up is shown below in the video in this article.

Another headache in aluminum and plastic doors is the lock area. Often you don’t need to do anything with the lock itself, you should adjust the striker, it’s not difficult to do this, the process is shown in the video below.

The reciprocal and clamping plate of the lock are quite easily adjusted with screws.

How to adjust a Chinese door

The most attractive characteristic of Chinese doors is their affordable price, everything else, to put it mildly, is not very high quality. Such a door cannot even be called iron, it rather looks like a constructor made of aluminum, polymer and it is still unknown what parts are made of.

Most masters do not undertake to repair these structures at all, so the economical owners of such a miracle have to do everything with their own hands.

We will not claim that absolutely all door nodes can be configured here, but we will tell you in detail how to adjust the hinges on the Chinese leaf so that the door closes normally.

Such doors must first be lubricated, and then adjusted. As we already mentioned, the easiest way to lubricate hard-to-reach mechanisms is to lift the door a little with a crowbar.

By the way, when buying Chinese doors, you need to carefully look at the equipment. So, compensating washers are installed under the bearing pins of the hinges, in each mechanism there should be 2 such washers.

Quite often, the Chinese put 2 washers on only one or two hinges, the rest of the hinges come with one washer, as a result, the load is not evenly distributed and the doors warp.

On each pin at the bottom there should be 2 compensating washers.

There are internal hinges in the Chinese doors, there are 4 fixing screws for the internal hexagon around the perimeter, so these screws must be released first.

Unscrew carefully, some of these screws are not tightened at all, but the second part is twisted tightly and when you try to unscrew it, the key can “lick off” the edges. If the screw won't budge, try spraying with WD40 and wait, this often works.

As shown in the diagram below, an adjusting screw is installed in the center of the hinge, in normal hinges this screw is clamped by a nut by 17. The nut must be released, after which the mechanism is adjusted with the screw. Inside, such a screw is made in the form of an eccentric and due to this, the design is adjustable.

To adjust the hinges, you must first loosen the fixing screws for the internal hexagon.

But since we are talking about Chinese designs, we can assure you from experience that in most of these doors this screw does not affect anything, although you still need to loosen the nut.

To move the doors to the side, you can insert a powerful flat screwdriver alternately from above and below the hinge and, using it as a lever, try to slowly move the plates of the structure. When the result satisfies you, tighten all the hexes around the perimeter, and then fix the nut on the adjusting device in the center.

How is the door leaf pressure adjusted?

Door problems can be caused by improper installation and even too thick sealing tape. So if your new door closes tightly, with effort, then it is better to be patient for a couple of weeks, perhaps the thick sealing tape will sit down a bit and everything will fall into place.

The sealing tape around the perimeter of the door must fit snugly against the door leaf.

It is worse when the masters made mistakes during installation and the clamping of the canvas along the perimeter of the box is not uniform. To find out, you first need to visually inspect the box with the doors closed, an uneven gap is usually visible.

Once you notice a discrepancy, you need to figure out the extent of the problem. To determine the size of the gap, a regular sheet of A4 paper is used, it is inserted into the problem area and the doors are closed, if in any place the sheet is freely pulled out, then the box needs to be leveled in this place.

Leveling the box is not an easy task, usually craftsmen attach such structures to anchor bolts, the advantage of this method is that, if necessary, the bolts can be loosened or unscrewed altogether, and then carry out some kind of manipulation with the doors.

But if iron crutches are driven in instead of anchors, then they will have to be cut off with a grinder, and then re-drill through holes in the fasteners and the wall in order to drive normal anchors there after the repair is completed.

It is better to fasten the door metal box to anchor bolts.

When the anchors are loosened, the metal box can be bent a few millimeters. If the rack is squeezed out towards the wall, then you can bend it with a crowbar or mount, in much the same way as we lifted the doors while lubricating the hinges.

If the box is curved inward or vice versa outward, then you need to take a powerful hammer and some kind of plank as a gasket. After that, apply the plank to the problem area and level the rack with a hammer. When the desired result is achieved, the anchors are clamped back.

Such a radical impact can cause cracks in the mounting foam, which is blown around the perimeter to seal. So, so that you don’t have a gap on the other side of the box, “walk” again with mounting foam for reliability.

Conclusion

It is quite possible for a normal home master to adjust the doors with his own hands. In conclusion, I would like to note that sometimes people mistakenly take the poor performance of the door closer (if any) for breaking doors, you can find out the subtleties of setting up door closers.