A DIY FOAM door with an inexpensive and practical coating...
No one has yet guessed what I made this door out of!
It's incredibly warm, made by hand and without carpentry! Carpenters are no longer needed... Home restoration specialists will be in the future...
Some thought it was made from planks or pallets, others from kitchen countertops...
But I'll reveal this secret to you and show you the entire process of creating a unique, warm door from scrap materials!
After tearing out the floors in my old, abandoned house, I was left with a fair amount of floorless boards... So using this free material to create a door was the only right and economical solution! After cutting the boards into lengths with a circular saw and planing them with a household thickness planer, I cut them to the required dimensions for my large door.
I then immediately assembled the door frame using screws, pre-drilling the mounting holes to guide the screws! IMPORTANT! For these types of products, we don't use black screws, as their heads can break off at the most inopportune moment, and trust me, they definitely will!
When creating the door frame, you need to remember the mortise lock insert, which I assembled from the same lumber, using screws and foam...
For the door filling and insulation, I decided to use 30mm thick extruded polystyrene foam, which, according to the manufacturers, has the same thermal conductivity as 18cm thick lumber...
To lay it evenly, I had to use a flat surface, which was my old door, blown away by the wind, apparently formed by Elon Musk's satellites as they flew over our backwater...
Extruded polystyrene foam is easily cut with a kitchen knife and can be installed with any hand! There's no need to perfectly fit the pieces to the opening, because all the gaps are filled with foam, and when it expands, they are pressed tightly and securely glued to each other. Therefore, to fill the door panel, you can use all the scraps you have on hand—pieces you'd hate to throw away, and which you couldn't find a better use for than filling an exclusive door for my warm house, which I'm renovating into the best sauna for the dearest guests of our farmstead...
Excess cured foam can be easily and effortlessly trimmed off with the same kitchen knife I used to cut the polystyrene foam to fill and insulate the door of unprecedented beauty...
Inspired by the videos on the YASHA KOSYAK channel about creating the walls of his thousand-dollar house and guest toilet, I decided to use these innovative technologies in the production of my exquisite door...
Since my polystyrene foam comes from different manufacturers and has different widths, I even out this discrepancy by using a regular wire brush, scratching the surface with my simple brushes. movements...
All this is necessary for a better bond between the tile adhesive and the insulation.