What is a barn door? What are the advantages and disadvantages of installing a barn door?
The biggest reason why barn doors are so popular is their beautiful yet highly personalized external shape. Most use metal and wood to match, providing an antique and mysterious experience as well as being suitable for a variety of decorative styles, making it an almost versatile design. Barn doors than the traditional sliding doors or wooden doors to a lot of beautiful, easy to install vibration removal, barn doors have many advantages, but the biggest drawback of barn doors is that the sealing is not as good as traditional doors, sound insulation, insulation is also relatively poor, the following to learn more about the knowledge of barn doors it.
As the name implies should be derived from the sliding door used as a warehouse. Barn door can be simply understood as a hanging rail outside the hanging trip (sliding) door, the main feature is that it is the rail outside the use of push and pull way to open. So the general name of the barn door mainly from the way it opens, and the material is basically irrelevant. So the material can choose a lot, the original wood, solid wood composite, glass, aluminum alloy + glass, metal materials and so on. In addition also composite mirror, chalkboard wall and so on a variety of optional. But general home decoration mainly used as interior doors, the most used or solid wood composite or log material.
Barn door advantages
1, the appearance of the atmosphere, plays a good decorative role barn door to do the back wall decoration is also recently more popular a decorative method. Barn doors can be matched with other elements, such as mirrors, chalkboard walls, glass, beads, bouquets, etc., the appearance of fashionable atmosphere, design is full of creativity, and the overall collocation of living room can be perfectly integrated together. Close the door can serve as a backdrop decoration, open and play the role of the door, a multipurpose. Living room is not a private space, only need to consider the beauty and practicality, the installation of barn doors in the living room, is a very correct choice.
2, does not take up space, suitable for small house installation
Barn doors are suitable for small house installation, the area of the living room is not very large, if you install a variety of swing doors will take up a lot of living room area, the utilization of space is not high. For example, in the children's room to install the door, the space may only be enough to place a bed, if the door will be inward to occupy the area of the children's room, the door will be outward to occupy the area of the aisle. The barn door belongs to the wall sliding door, can be a good solution to the problem of insufficient space for small households, the appearance of fashionable atmosphere, but also played a certain decorative role.
3、Simple disassembly, with the demolition
Barn door belongs to the door can be used many times, in the time of moving, you can directly unload the door away. Barn door disassembly directly remove the track and pulley can be, simple operation, will not cause any impact on the door. If it is other doors, the process of disassembly is more complicated, if there is no excellent skills, you also need to find a professional master door-to-door disassembly, the price will not be cheap
4、Lower cost
Barn doors can use waste wood, scrap wood, solid wood and other production, compared to solid wood doors, plastic doors and aluminum doors and other production costs are lower, and the project can reuse waste, more environmentally friendly, is more popular a sliding door.
5、Simpler installation
The installation steps of the barn door is relatively simple, a simple three steps can be installed, do not need to specifically ask the master to install, do it yourself can be installed. The first step in the wall punching holes, the track to the right position, the use of long screws to fix the track in the wall. The second step: install the hanging rail above the door edge. Step 3:Hang the door up.
Barn door disadvantages
1, the sound insulation effect is poor
The sound insulation effect of the barn door is poor because the door is not sealed with the wall, you need to set aside a gap, so that the barn door can be pushed and pulled normally. Like the bathroom is not suitable for the installation of barn doors. The bathroom has a private, is where we usually wash and go to the toilet, if the bathroom sound insulation is poor, it will make people especially embarrassed. Especially when guests come to the house, wash, toilet inconvenient, what sound inside can hear clearly outside, very impolite.
2、Poor sealing
Barn door belongs to the wall sliding door, the door and the wall must leave a gap between the normal sliding barn door to ensure that the door, but will lead to poor sealing. General kitchen is not recommended to install barn doors. Kitchen fumes are heavy, and the poor sealing of the barn door, fumes from the door and the gap between the wall to run out, spread throughout the room, not only will cause pollution to the interior furniture, and the purpose of the human health will also be detrimental, so it is not recommended that the kitchen installation barn door.
3, load-bearing requirements barn door track is installed in the wall, mainly by the track fixed in the wall to move the pulley, so that the barn door normal opening and closing, so the load-bearing requirements for the wall is particularly strict. If it is a solid load-bearing wall, such as cement poured wall, or concrete poured wall load-bearing are better, you can install the barn door. Hollow brick or foam brick load-bearing capacity is relatively poor, it is generally not recommended to install the barn door to avoid accidents.
4、Hardware fittings
Barn door hardware accessories must choose good quality products, barn doors mainly rely on hanging rails and pulleys to work, if the hardware quality is not up to par, the barn door will be opened and closed with a prickly prickly sound, the barn door does not open and close smoothly, affecting the use of experience, so the price is too cheap hardware accessories directly do not have to consider.
5、Uncomfortable locks
Barn doors are generally uncomfortable locks, greatly limiting the scope of use of the barn door. Like the bathroom is not very suitable for the installation of barn doors. The bathroom is where we wash the toilet, with privacy, if the family has a large population, it is generally not recommended to install the barn door.
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