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In life, many families choose to decorate house themselves in order to save costs, that is, they buy relevant materials and carry out various decoration projects themselves. However, most of the time, decorators will encounter relevant questions, that is what to install first, floor or door. The following article presents a specific analysis to door installation or floor installation first, as well as details the skills of laying the floor, and what are the precautions of laying the floor & door.
Door First Or Flooring?
When it comes to the situation that floor for bedroom, tiles for corridor or hallway, you should install the door first. Because the tile is installed earlier than the door, the height of the door has already had the reference standard.
You should select the type and specification of wood floor in advance, and focus on confirming the height of floor installing after the room leveling is confirmed with the merchant. In addition, laminate floor is generally 15mm, solid wood multilayer is generally 18mm.
Install Door Frame First
Advantages:
- The floor is not afraid to be damaged and soiled by the door or the auxiliary materials of the door. It takes a lot of space to install the door, the process is rough, the tools are heavy, and the styrofoam and glass glue are dirty.
- The transition between the anchor line and the door cover can be made very tightly.
Disadvantages:
- The door frame cannot cover the expansion joint of the floor. Expansion joints shall be reserved for the floor against the wall, and the skirting line shall be used for edge closing and covering. Because the door frame has been well done, it can not be covered on the floor like the foundation line, and can only be closed with glass glue.
Install Floor First
Advantages:
- The door cover can cover the expansion joint of the floor, which is more beautiful visually.
- The door seam can be adjusted to the best.
- After installing the floor, the gap between the door and the floor can be more accurately controlled when the door is installed;
- Install floor before doors can avoid the installation difficulty of the angle between the floor and the door frame when installing the door.
Disadvantages
- If choose floors before doors, when installing door, it may cause damage to the floor. There will also be a certain amount of garbage or sealant and the like will dirty the floor.
- The foundation line and door pocket edge closing may not be tight enough.
- If the door has buckle strip, the specific position of the door strip under the door can not be accurately determined. If the floor and buckle strip are installed first, if the door is not installed directly above the buckle strip, the buckle strip will be exposed, affecting the beauty.
Conclusion
- If it is floor tile or marble tile, it must be installed first. If doors before floor tiles, the water used to lay the floor tile is easy to be printed on the door pocket.
- If it is a solid wood floor, the door must be installed first. The following problems will be encountered when laying the floor first:
- There is a certain amount of sawdust and glue when installing the door. The glue will make the floor dirty, and the sawdust is easy to enter the floor gap
- If the door is not installed, the corner line of the floor can’t be closed well.
- If it is a composite floor, it is best to install the door first.
Tips For Floor Installation
- When laying the floor, the gap should be arranged more closely than before, so as to avoid the gap becoming larger and affecting the beauty when the temperature drops. The joint of floor and wall, can form transition with floor layering, so as to not only deal with the disadvantages of too large gap between wall and floor, but also play a beautiful role.
- In summer, due to the material is more dry than usual, so for floor tiles, ceramic tiles and other materials that need to be soaked in water, the soaking time should be prolonged to make it fully close to the saturation state. In this way, it will not appear in the bonding due to water absorption and the cement is not firmly bonded, resulting in hollowing and falling off.
- When laying the floor tiles, we should pay attention to the cutting of each corner, because if the corner cutting is not accurate, then the floor tiles will be wasted, which is a great loss for you.
Is this article helpful to you? Do you install floor or door first? Whether it is to install the door or floor first has its own advantages and disadvantages, which needs to be decided according to the specific situation of the family.
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