How to knock a door from the inside. Upholstery of a metal door and an entrance door, how to make it yourself

No matter how expensive and high-quality the door is, after some time it will lose its original appearance and will require restoration. The easiest way to give a door a second life is to upholster it. A variety of materials can be used for door trim. The technology of work from the upholstery material practically does not change. Check out the instructions provided and you can easily do your DIY repairs.

What you need to upholster the door: preparing for work

Many different materials are suitable for self-upholstery of doors, namely:

PVC film;
leather;
dermantin;
vinyl leather.

The last option from the list is the most preferred. Vinyl leather is superior to leatherette and artificial leather in terms of basic quality characteristics and is cheaper than genuine leather.

Upholstery material can be purchased from a specialist store. In general, the size of the cut should be approximately 15 cm larger than the dimensions of the door on each side.

Upholstery will require you to make special upholstery rolls. In total, you need to prepare three strips with a width of about 100-150 mm. Select the height individually in accordance with the height of your door structure.

Choose a lining material. The budget option is foam rubber. A lining with a thickness of 1-2 cm is enough.

If you want to improve the sound and heat insulation characteristics of the door, use izolon instead of foam rubber. It is a very practical material with excellent performance properties. It costs a little more than simple foam rubber and significantly surpasses it in all characteristics.

Additionally, you will need to buy various small accessories, the same decorative nails. A huge selection of such products is available on sale in a wide variety of color variations. Choose according to your taste.

If you wish, you can buy upholstery nails, originally upholstered in leather or leatherette. They will be invisible on the main door leaf, which is the right solution in many situations.

In general, try to choose nails that are as close as possible to the color of the upholstery material. After restoration, the door should have a harmonious appearance, unless otherwise provided by your design project.

The work on the self-upholstery of the door is carried out using glue. You can buy the most ordinary glue like "Moment", etc. One side of the door leaf will take about 100 ml of glue.

In the process of self-upholstering a door made of wood, no difficulties should arise. Understand the instructions provided, understand the difference between sheathing the outer and inner planes of the canvas and get to work.

Finishing the inside of a wooden door

This method is suitable for finishing those models that open inward, i.e. into the space of the room.

First step. Make a special roller. With this element, you will hide the gap between the door frame and the door leaf itself. Also, in some situations, the roller will contribute to a tighter fit of the canvas to the frame.

Second step. Attach a strip of upholstery to the face of the door so that it is about 35-40mm on the base. Fix with a special stapler.

If overhead locks are installed on the door, start attaching material from it. In case your locks are mortise, the fastening should start slightly below the central part of the long side of the door. Upholste the entire perimeter of the canvas with similar stripes.

Third step. Apply foam or other chosen filler. Pre-cut the material into strips about 100 mm wide. Use the same stapler to attach the pad. The resulting roller should protrude approximately 10-40 mm, depending on the peculiarities of the ratio of the door itself and decorative platbands. This completes the roller.

Stage four. Measure the space between the inner edges of the roller you created and cut out a strip of thick foam. Subtract 10 mm on each side from the previously measured roller to determine the appropriate strip width. Attach the finished foam strip.

Fifth stage. Proceed directly to the door trim. Take a piece of the selected upholstery material by the corner, gently tuck its edges about 6 cm and lay it in the corner of the door leaf so that the upholstery slightly goes over the surface of the previously prepared roller.

Drive in a decorative nail at a distance of about 0.5 cm from the edge.

Take the upholstery material by the second top corner, tuck it in the same way, and hammer in the second decorative nail, while pulling the upholstery slightly.

Make sure the piece of upholstery is laid flat. To do this, run your hand along the center line of the door with a small clip, reach the bottom and, firmly holding the upholstery with your hand, attach its lower corners to the edges of the door. If the distance is the same at both ends, you can continue working. If there are discrepancies, the fastening of the upholstery will have to start over, otherwise it will be uneven and ugly at the end.

Nail the upper edge of the canvas with decorative nails in increments of 1 cm.Further, according to the same scheme, finish any side part, carefully tucking the upholstery material at an equal distance and pulling it slightly.

Walk to the bottom edge and move on to finishing the second side piece. At the end, fix the lower free edge with a stapler. This completes the self-paneling. Go to the installation of the peephole and old or new locks.

If the door structure consists of two leaves, the restoration is carried out in the same manner. An important nuance consists only in the fact that the vertical roller needs to be equipped on a sash with a handle.

Video - Do-it-yourself door upholstery

Finishing the outside of a wooden door

This is an instruction manual for structures that come off outward.

First step. Close the door and transfer the projection of its box directly onto the canvas. This will give you the outline of the new upholstery. The margin on the edges is required for the “quarter”.

Second step. Secure the padding material approximately one centimeter away from the marked line.

Third step. Just as in the previous instructions, nail in the main piece of upholstery, leaving the bottom edge unlocked.

Fourth step. Make a heat-insulating roller. For outdoor upholstery, it is attached to the box and not to the canvas. It is made in almost the same way as when performing inner upholstery, only the volume of inner foam rubber needs to be slightly increased.

Position the roller on the hinge side so that it is flush with the door frame. In relation to the lock side and the upper part, the roller must be extended by 0.5 cm. Attach the lower side of the finished roller to the door leaf so that when closed it is tightly pressed against the door sill.

If you attach the roller directly to the threshold, it will fray very quickly due to being caught by your feet.

Fifth step. Secure the bottom edge of the upholstery with a construction stapler, and then install locks, new or old handles, a peephole and, if necessary, decorative elements.

There are two main options for cladding a metal door structure: a budget one using materials such as vinyl leather, dermantine and the like, and a more expensive one using decorative panels. Read the instructions for each of them and choose the option that suits you.

Video - Upholstery and insulation of metal doors

Budgetary way

Restoration of metal doors can be carried out using the same materials as wood canvases. However, in this case, there is no need to use decorative carnations - everything is done with the help of glue.

First step. Thoroughly grease the edges of the door leaf with quality glue and fix the foam strips on it. Cut off excess lining along the door profile.

Second step. Apply the adhesive to the end of the top of the door and proceed with the bonding of the selected upholstery material. First glue the top, then the door hinges, then glue the locks, and finally the bottom of the door. Smooth wrinkles and get rid of distortions of the material directly in the process.

Third step. After the glue is completely dry (the drying time is indicated in the instructions for a particular tool), cut off excess material, if present, using a sharp office knife. Be careful not to damage the main upholstery.

Fourth step. Install the peephole, handles and replace the locks.

Expensive way

This method involves the upholstery of the metal structure with special panels. For outdoor upholstery, the best choice is made of MDF. They are available in several standard sizes. After such upholstery, the door will look no worse than expensive factory-made counterparts.

Carry out interior decoration with wall panels. Select the upholstery material in accordance with the interior of the room and the features of the door operation. MDF has a more attractive appearance, often imitating the texture of exclusive and expensive wood, but this material needs to be treated with care. Plastic panels are much easier to maintain, but not as beautiful.

First step. Measure your metal drill. You need to know the width and exact height of the canvas. On the inside of the door, you will find corners designed to increase the rigidity of the door structure. The width of such corners corresponds to the depth of the door leaf. You also need to fix this parameter in measurements. You will need it when buying foam sheets and wooden beams.

Determine the inner height of the canvas as the distance from the bottom to the top corner. The width of the inner surface, respectively, will be equal to the distance between the side metal corners. Record the measurement results.

Second step. Go to the building store along with the results of previous measurements. Buy foam there, panels of the selected material, wooden beams and a decorative corner with a 10-15 percent margin.

Third step. Return home and proceed to decorate the door. First, cut the block into 4 pieces. The length of these segments should correspond to the width of the door leaf.

Take a block, attach it to the upper edge of the canvas and, using a marker or pencil, draw a line along this block on the base. Do the same at the bottom of the canvas. Place the remaining blocks on the door so that all 4 blocks are placed at approximately the same distance as a result. Leave the appropriate labels.

Fourth step. Armed with an electric drill, make 16 mounting holes in your door. There should be 4 holes for each block. The diameter of these holes should be equal to the diameter of the screws.

Fifth step. Fix the bars to the canvas with self-tapping screws. This will give you a skeleton.

Sixth step. Drill the fixing holes for fixing the upholstery panel. The optimal number of holes for mounting each such panel, as a rule, is given by the manufacturer in the accompanying instructions.

Seventh step. Prepare peephole holes, locks and handles in the cladding panel.

Eighth stage. Fix the panel. For more convenience, you can remove the door leaf from the hinges.

Move on to the upholstery of the inside of the door leaf.

First step. Attach the frame bars to the canvas as you did with the outer upholstery.

Second step. Cut the foam into pieces, focusing on the distance between the frame bars. Make holes for the peephole, handles and door locks in the corresponding parts of the foam.

Third step. Place the foam sheets in the spaces between all the blocks. Additionally, you can fix the foam with good quality glue.

Fourth step. Fasten the inner panels to the frame. Plastic panels are fixed with a stapler, while MDF panels are fixed with clamps.

Fifth step. Attach a decorative corner of a suitable material around the perimeter of the door leaf. It will hide the edges of the upholstery and give the door a more attractive appearance.

Sixth step. Put a peephole, handles, locks, if necessary, replace the platbands.

These simple instructions will allow you to update the appearance of your door with minimal financial and time costs.

Happy work!

Video - How to upholster the door with your own hands

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The front door not only protects the house from burglary, but also keeps it cozy and warm. Front door upholstery will help to increase its functionality, and in some cases even avoid replacement (if there are only cosmetic defects).

The modern construction market offers a lot of variations of upholstery materials of different prices: dermantin, vinyl leather, genuine leather, special fabric. The choice depends not only on the budget, but also on the type of door leaf, its quality, and the owner's preferences.

Advantages of front door upholstery

Increasing the level of noise insulation, moisture resistance.
Improves the aesthetic appearance, makes defects invisible.
Retains heat in the room.
Protects steel sheet from corrosion, and wood from the effects of temperature extremes.

But it is also important to consider that the upholstery is sensitive to sudden temperature changes and is practically unsuitable for restoration after mechanical damage.

How to upholster a wooden door

The upholstery will extend the life of the wood and prevent it from drying out. In the process of work, they use materials such as:

dermantin;
vinyl leather (, beautiful appearance);
felt;
plastic foam;
bologna fabric

When choosing a material, take into account which direction. The way of working with the sealing rollers and fastening the upholstery sides depends on this:

opens outward (the rollers are fixed to the ends of the door frame);
opens inward (rollers are attached to the door frame).

To make the upholstery process fast and convenient, the master needs to prepare in advance: material, insulation (batting, synthetic winterizer, isolon, foam rubber with a thickness of at least 2 cm), repair tools (special nails, tape measure, scissors, hammer, screwdriver, stapler). For 1 m² of area you will need 50 g of construction nails and 75 g of decorative ones.

The upholstery kit is soundproof, but also additionally insulates the room.

Upholstery: work algorithm

Measurement of the door leaf, preparation of it and segments for masking the edges. Measurements are taken with a tape measure. To create blanks from the material, cut out two strips equal to the width of the door and one equal to the length. The width in both versions is 14 cm. Then the canvas is cut out along the perimeter 10 cm larger than the measurements of the door. It must be removed from the hinges and the fittings dismantled.
Removal of old material, surface cleaning (with special washes, spatula).
Insulation is placed on the door leaf, the upholstery material is fixed with decorative nails, a special tape for the edges. First, the side segments are fixed with nails with the edge (inside out). The lower part is nailed at least 2 cm from the edge so that the material does not rub too quickly. Each step of sheathing the canvas is 10 cm.
To provide additional noise and heat insulation, in addition to the standard upholstery, it is recommended to install a sealing bead around the perimeter of the box, an additional layer of foam rubber, padding polyester on both sides. Sealing rollers are placed on the side segments of the material, wrapping the edges tightly inward. At the edge of the fold, these come with decorative nails. If the product opens inward, the rollers are attached to the ends of the door frame.
They make holes for locks, a peephole, fold the edges and fasten them with nails.
The product is hung on hinges.

The upholstery is pulled so that no folds or wrinkles form. To do this, the material is fixed with a nail, first from above, then from below, carefully straightening, and only then the side part is fixed.

For decorative design, use a silk cord, wire, stuff with special nails in the form of a pattern.

If plastic (fabric) is used, then a different technology is used. The main tool in the process of upholstering with this material is rectangular strips with a special slot. A decorative frame-baguette is inserted into it and its coals are sawn off at 45 °. The frame is fixed with nails (indent 7-10 cm), insulation is placed and covered with plastic, which is fastened with nails at a step of 4 mm.

Metal front door upholstery: process specifics

Upholstery is made using laminated fiberboard (for interior decoration), vinyl leather, dermantine.

For work you will need:

upholstery;
plywood;
stapler, scissors;
insulation (the thickness should be 10 cm more than that of the door leaf);
plywood;
liquid Nails.

Sequence of stages

First you need to remove the fittings; for convenience, the door leaf is placed horizontally on a solid, flat surface.
Plywood blanks are attached to the surface using epoxy glue. They wait for at least a day to dry completely.
To prepare the fasteners for the sealing rollers, first cut out blanks (10 cm wide and length according to the door parameters) from the selected material. They are folded in half, fixed with nails or a stapler at a step of 10-15 cm.
To upholster the door and prevent heat loss, foam rubber, 2 layers of batting (attached with liquid nails) are placed on the canvas.
The upholstery material is cut with a margin of 3 cm on each side, fixed above the insulation, first from above, and then from below with furniture nails.
The edges of the sealing bead filled with batting are fixed.

Upholstery without interior decoration requires additional manipulations. The workpiece is cut out of a solid fiberboard plate, holes are made up to a peephole, a lock and placed on insulation blocks. The panel is attached to the frame with self-tapping screws.

The upholstery is economically beneficial and in terms of the functionality of the door (the material will last a long period of time, save the room from noise and cold, beautifully decorate the canvas).

If the product is one-piece, and the sheets of the inner and outer sheathing are welded to the frame, then the foam rubber is fixed on the sheet of the inner sheathing. A frame made of strips is attached to it with self-tapping screws, between which foam rubber or batting is placed, covered with a fiberboard panel. It should be borne in mind that with this upholstery method, the thickness of the fabric will increase significantly.

Dermantin is recommended primarily for those who want to increase the level of heat in the house, to provide good sound insulation. It is better to use its modern counterpart - vinyl leather. It has properties that are useful in terms of functionality and maintenance: it is not afraid of frost, practically does not fade, has an elastic and at the same time durable texture, high wear resistance. There are many models and colors of this upholstery material on the market. But the owner must also remember the disadvantages: sensitivity to mechanical damage, temperature changes.

The cost of door upholstery to order

Replacing the upholstery of a metal door costs about 1,500 rubles. for one side, wooden - about the same. The material is paid for and bought separately. The cost of working with doors of non-standard size (not in the format 200 x 80 cm) must be specified individually. Finishing with laminated panels is estimated at an order of magnitude more expensive - 4500 rubles.

The price largely depends on the materials used, the range of additional work, fitting the locks, adjusting the doors). For example, the average cost of a standard set: dermantin of a dark shade, synthetic winterizer or foam rubber, decorative nails, glue is 1000 rubles, and the departure of the master is 500-800 rubles. On average, he spends 2-4 hours on work. But on sale there are ready-made kits for upholstering entrance doors with your own hands from 200 rubles. Upholstery of doors with leather will not only decorate them, but will also keep the room warm and quiet.

It is important to remember that the upholstery of the entrance doors with leatherette, for example, in most companies provides only for fixing the material itself. And the installation of a sealing, decorative roller, insulation with an additional layer of foam rubber, batting, isolon, vibration isolation must be paid separately (from 200 to 1500 rubles, depending on the type of work, materials used).

In addition, they require a fee for the preliminary departure of the master for measuring and selecting material, dismantling the old coating, installing and removing locks. It is much more profitable to change the upholstery of the front door on your own, especially since this process is not very complicated.

Underwater rocks

When pulling on the material, you need to be careful to ensure that it is fixed correctly, without wrinkles and folds. If there is no experience of this kind of work, you can spoil the material or carry out this stage poorly.
It is not necessary to insulate with popular materials (paper, felt). They do not retain heat well and contribute to the appearance of pests.
Cutouts for the peephole, the lock should be smaller than the fittings.
When working with the upholstery of a metal product, it is important to ensure that the material of the inner and outer upholstery does not overlap in the places of gluing. Otherwise, the fasteners will be of poor quality.
It is better not to use rubber gaskets to seal the joints, this will interfere with the high-quality closing of the door.

It is much cheaper and easier to upholster the front door than to replace it, and the alternative in the form of installing decorative panels from MFD is not cheap (about 3500 without a specialist visiting for measurement). Another plus of this design is insulation and positive changes in the interior.

Do-it-yourself door upholstery will save money and be confident in the quality of the work performed.

Foreword... Insulation of doors is the first thing that residents of private houses begin to worry about when cold weather sets in. In the article, we will tell you how to do self-insulation of doors using dermantine, since this is the most popular material for finishing an entrance door. You will be able to watch at the end of the material a video of the door leaf insulation, we will also give instructions on the correct finishing.

Do I need to insulate the front doors with dermantin

Today there is more than one material for insulation, one of them is dermantin. It is often used, but let's first weigh the pros and cons of this material. And at the end of the material, we will consider how to sheathe the door with dermantine without removing it from the hinges.

Advantages:

1. The price of finishing is democratic, especially since the products are now produced of high quality and sometimes it is difficult to distinguish leatherette from leather;
2. The material perfectly tolerates changes in temperature and humidity, while the quality of the dermantin does not decrease;
3. After work, you will receive not only insulation, but also increase the sound insulation of the canvas and hide possible defects;
4. The coating can be taken in any color and with different textures.

Disadvantages:

1. The coating is susceptible to damage, if a rupture appears, then it simply will not work, you will have to change the entire coating.
2. It is not advisable to place the material in direct sunlight, leatherette burns out and becomes unusable over time.

We insulate the box of the entrance doors

Warming the door without removing it from the hinges It should be said right away that it is not easy to upholster the door. This is a whole range of activities that should be carefully performed. Only then will you achieve the required thermal insulation and sound insulation. Insulation of doors begins with the box. If cold air enters the room through it, then it will not be possible to insulate the entrance opening qualitatively.

To begin with, you should carefully examine the box, sometimes you simply cannot see how cold air enters the apartment through the box. Builders don't worry about heat supply and you can find cavities. If the gaps are covered with a solution, then over time it can peel off, and gaps form. You just need to remove this gap with a chisel.

Now you need to fill the gaps with insulation. For this, the cavity is foamed or filled with insulation. When insulating, it is better to use mineral materials. After warming the cracks, you can treat them with a spatula.

Insulation of entrance doors with dermantin

To upholster the doors with dermantine, you need to prepare a canvas for the job. Better if it is raised, some remove the door from its hinges and put it on four chairs. Next, we remove the coating, accessories and everything that will interfere with the work from the canvas.

We apply the material to the surface and mark the contours of the cut. It is necessary to add about 10 cm on each side; when marking the dermantine, the size of the twist should also be taken into account.

If the door is wooden, then the cracks, if necessary, are putty with wood putty with a rubber spatula. If the door is made of metal, then you need to degrease it and apply a layer of primer to the metal.

We put the dermantin on top of the insulation and nail it along the edge of the wooden door. Otherwise, with a metal door, glue is applied along the edge and dermantin is applied to it. You can also sheathe the door with dermantine without removing it from the hinges, how to do this yourself, see the video below.

Video. How to upholster the door with dermantine with your own hands

The simplest and most popular way to give a door an attractive appearance is to upholster it with some material. This can be done both indoors and outdoors, you just have to use different materials and different technologies. But in any case, the process is called "door upholstery". All the subtleties and nuances - below.

How can you knock the doors

There are two types of door upholstery - soft and hard. Soft is made of two materials - dermantin (leatherette) and vinyl leather. Dermantin is a woven cotton base covered with a nitrocellulose film. This material was popular in the 40-60s of the last century, as it was practical and inexpensive. A little later, vinyl leather appeared.

A little about vinyl leather and leatherette

This material is made on different bases - woven and non-woven, stretch and not. Accordingly, artificial leather has different properties. A layer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC or PVC) is applied to the base. It is more durable, chemically neutral. It has only one significant drawback - it reacts poorly to ultraviolet rays - it loses its elasticity, changes color, and may crack. Therefore, the upholstery of doors directly facing the street is undesirable with vinyl leather. There is, however, a material with increased resistance to UV rays, but this is a special material and you need to pay attention to this when buying.

Now about a little confusion in terminology. Dermantin in its pure form, such as it was in the last century, has not been produced for quite some time. There are different types of vinyl faux leather instead. There are also materials coated with other polymers, but there are not many of them. Here they are all from old memory and are called dermantin or leatherette (although it is correct, by the way, to say "leatherette" without "n"). So, seeing this name, it is necessary to clarify what kind of material is meant, since the properties and prices differ significantly.

Despite the fact that the material is essentially one, it has different characteristics and appearance. There are elastic types that stretch well, there are hard ones that are difficult to stretch. In addition, modern artificial leather has many colors and shades, it can have a different surface structure:

So the choice of soft upholstery materials for the door is extensive. Apparently, this is the determining factor in the popularity of this type of door upholstery.

Hard padding for door

There are more hard upholstery materials for doors, although they are used less often:

MDF panels with a thickness of 8 mm to 18 mm;
natural wood - fragments, solid wood;
veneer;
laminate;
plastic;
postforming.

From this list, most often the doors are trimmed with MDF overlays / panels. Such upholstery is especially popular for decorating metal doors, including homemade ones. The panels are made according to the dimensions of a specific door leaf, after which they are installed on glue or polyurethane foam in fixed starting strips. In this case, it makes sense and.

From the catalog - options for MDF overlays, and all this is still in different colors ...

Practically, the door sheathing with other materials is also carried out - laminate, plastic, postforming. Starting profiles are installed along the perimeter of the door, into which trim fragments cut to size are inserted. It's simple, if you have basic skills in working with a drill, saw and hammer, you can do it yourself in a few hours.

Door upholstery with dermantin

The most popular way of door trim is with artificial leather. Such a department allows, simultaneously with improving the appearance, to increase the indicators of heat and sound insulation. But this type of door upholstery has its drawbacks - this is the most complex technological process, requiring at least a general understanding of the procedure.

Upholstery methods

It will be about the technology of door upholstery with dermantine. It can be attached in two ways: with and without a roller along the perimeter of the door leaf. Depending on this, the order of actions changes (more on this later).

Door upholstery with dermantine - with and without roller

For constrictions, you can use the same material with which the doors were upholstered. It is cut into strips 2.5-3 cm wide, attached to the upper nails, and then by pulling and fixing for the next nails, a pattern is formed. To fix the strip, you can wrap it around a not completely driven nail, which is then hammered. But this option is suitable if decorative nails have large heads. If the caps are small, the strips are nailed.

Also, the pattern can be formed using a thin metal flexible cable, but it is more difficult to fix it - it bends worse.

How and what to attach leatherette to the door leaf

If upholstery of a wooden door is necessary, questions usually do not arise - they are fastened with staples from a stapler, then they are nailed along the contour with decorative nails. Only here there are nuances: the staples should be with a wide back (at least 1 mm), and the nails should be wallpaper with a wide head. The step of installing the fasteners is from 2.5 to 7 cm, if desired.

More questions arise when it is necessary to cover an iron door with dermantine. There is only one way out - to put on glue. Glue is usually used "Moment", but you can use any other universal glue that can be used to glue both metal and leatherette. They grease the strip from the inside (the strip that goes along the perimeter of the door and closes the joint of the canvas with the door frame). When fixing vinyl leather, it is cut out with a margin of 15 cm, just for the fold from both sides to the wrong side.

Materials for heat and noise insulation

Foam rubber is most often used for door insulation. It is inexpensive, if desired, it allows you to form a volumetric convex pattern. The most common case is two layers of foam rubber, 1 cm each. This option is not the best - the foam rubber has almost no effect on the soundproof properties of the door, which is sometimes very important. In addition, after 3-4 years, it loses its elasticity, begins to stick together, it is necessary to make the door constriction, although the appearance of the leatherette is still quite decent.

All this is true, but there are no worthy competitors for foam rubber yet. There are materials with certain properties that can be laid instead of one of the layers, and the second will still be foam rubber. For example, to improve sound insulation properties, you can use "Isoton". It is used for heat and sound insulation of cars. It is sold in small sheets, an adhesive composition is applied to the back, protected with plastic wrap. So there will be no problems with the installation. Of the minuses - the price and the rather large weight of the material. To avoid problems, it is worth replacing the loops with more powerful ones.

There are two other materials used in the automotive industry with similar properties. These are "Splen" and "Vibration filter". All of them are made on an adhesive base and can be used to improve the characteristics of the door.

How to knock a wooden door

It is more convenient to work on a removed door, but if this is a problem, you can knock it right on the spot. First, you need to remove all accessories from the door leaf - locks, latches, door peephole. If there is old upholstery, carefully remove it. If a part of the door requires repair, the damaged fragments are removed, replaced with cut-to-size wooden ones. The slots can be covered with putty or foamed with polyurethane foam with a low expansion coefficient.

If there was a pattern on the upholstery, and in principle it suits you, we drive ordinary nails into the places where the nails forming the pattern were driven in. We do not hammer them to the end, the hats should stick out by 1-1.5 cm. With their help, we will then break through the foam rubber and upholstery in the right places (just press with your fingers, all the layers will be sold). We will pull out the usual nails, install decorative nails in their place, use the tape to form a pattern. The procedure is simple.

With roller

To make the end of the door look no worse than the rest of the plane, we start with it. If you are not going to finish one of the sides, skip this stage, just paint the butt end with paint to match the finish on one side or the other. If we cover the doors on both sides, we cut out a strip of material about 10 cm wide. More precisely, look at your door, since the thickness of the canvas is different. The strip should cover the end and go on one and the second side by 3-4 cm. Lay the strip, fasten it along the edge with staples from a stapler (faster and easier) or nails with a large flat head.

A strip of material is also needed to form a roller. Width - 10-15 cm depending on how wide you want the roller. Then there are two options:

The difference between these two methods is only in appearance: in the first case, nails are nailed along the edge of the upholstery (in the photo on the right), in the second - along the edge of the roller (in the photo on the left). They choose who they like best. For example, it seems to me that the first option (on the right) looks better - more neat. But this is just a personal opinion.

What is this roller for? In order to close possible gaps between the canvas and the jamb. Thus, we avoid the appearance of drafts and reduce heat loss. But you can make a roller only if the doors are upholstered from the opening side (the doors open inside the apartment, and we upholster them from the inside). If, on the other hand, this trick does not work, it will not close. Then you have to do without a roller.

In this case, everything is simple: the canvas is tucked evenly, fixed with nails or staples - whoever suits best.

Door upholstery process in photo format

To reduce the noise level, the doors are upholstered with one layer of sound insulation and one layer of foam rubber. The option with the preliminary production of the cushion is selected. First, they removed the old fittings, cut in a new lock. The pads and the handle were removed, the inner parts remained in place. We proceed to the upholstery of the doors.

We immediately form a roller - we put a narrow foam rubber in a strip of dermantin, fasten it along the perimeter of the door. It is more convenient to do this with staples from a stapler.

The next step is soundproofing. It is glue-based, so there is no problem - it was cut to size, carefully removing the film and glued. While gluing, we try to squeeze out all the air, for this we tear off the film gradually, ironing the material from edge to edge.

Now we fix the foam rubber 1 cm thick. In this version, the most convenient way is to use staples from a construction stapler. First, we fix it around the perimeter, then often along the surface of the door, so that the foam rubber fits snugly.

Foam rubber is cut out with a small margin, after installation, the excess is cut off.

We turn the upper edge by 2-3 cm, start fastening from the upper left corner. There we hammer in the first nail, then straighten the material and nail the second one at the top right. Then, in 3-4 cm steps, we nail the upholstery with finishing nails from one edge to the other.

Fasten from the hinge side, turning the edge inward. Spread it straight out so that there are no creases at the top.

After that, the same operation is repeated from the side of the castle, then below. Actually, the upholstery of the doors is almost finished, you just need to install the fittings in place.

Video tutorials on the topic

Vinyl leatherette for door upholstery is sold both in meters and in sets. In some sets, the fastening method may be different: they have plastic profiles that are attached along the perimeter of the door leaf. These profiles have a fixing system similar to that used in stretch ceilings.

The following video captures the process using roll material.

How to insulate and upholster the front door. The technique of forming a roller of the second type - it is nailed in the last turn.

How to upholster metal doors

The front part of metal doors is rarely upholstered - it already has a completely attractive appearance. The inner part suffers more often. Let's talk about this.

On the inner side of the iron door there is a frame. In some models it is metal, in others it is wooden. Heat-insulating material is placed between the frame slats. It can be polystyrene or rock wool slabs. They are attached to mounting foam, which has a very low coefficient of expansion (required!). From above, everything is closed with a sheet of plywood or OSB. This is the standard option. If the planks are wooden, everything is fine, there are no problems - the doors will not freeze. But if the frame inside the door is metal, in good frosts everything will freeze through and through - through the bridges of cold, which are metal ribs. To prevent this from happening, a layer of "Isotone" or "Splena" is again laid on top of the foam / mineral wool, and plywood is already on them.

The rest of the processes for upholstering a metal door are very similar to those described above. All the difference is in the method of fixing: the upholstery is glued to a suitable high-quality glue. The excess is immediately cut off at the junction using a sharp wallpaper knife.

This is where the classic mistake was made - there is no layer that cuts off the cold bridges. Otherwise, everything is shown well.