Sliding doors well retain free space in a small house, zone the room and change the interior in the house depending on the situation.
For example, one sliding door can be closed with a cinema cabinet, dressing rooms and a bedroom or a regular working corner, just moving the door in the right place if necessary. The canvas of the sliding door can be made of glass, wood, metal and other building materials.
Provide for the location of the sliding door in your house you need before the start of the repair. The size of the allocated part for construction should be no less than the width of the doors, and if the doors will go into the wall, then there should be no ventilation ducts in this place and no pipes. Depending on this, provide a place inside the wall partition or along the wall where they will move.
When laying new partitions, they should place the guides, and, if necessary, special cassettes, which will include door wings.
If the wall is already built, but you do not want to demolish it, it is better to build a door that will move behind the wall. In this case, you can sheathe it with drywall and apply a cassette on the wall. The territory of the wall on which the door will have to call, you need to clean from furniture, sockets, switches and shelves. When installing the door inside the wall, make sure that you can easily remove it, using nozzles from a vacuum cleaner. And to eliminate breakdowns in the door opening system, builders advise one of the walls to make a removable.
Consider the advantages of sliding doors: when opening, they take up slightly space than ordinary swing doors; They can be left a little ajar; They do not move under the influence of drafts; The doors change the interior of the building, they may be disguised as entrance to the pantry, dressing room and other room. The disadvantages of sliding doors: low tightness, which does not allow you to install such doors between rooms in which different temperatures need to be maintained; They are inconvenient in rooms that need to be closed with a key, and the cost of the opening system of such a door is higher. When ordering or buying sliding doors, pay attention to the width of the door leaf, the sash should be wider than the wall opening. After closing, the door will go to the wall, and all the cracks will not be visible. Sliding doors will be a good acquisition and an indispensable interior for your home.