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Do I need in-house cold vestibule or traditional canopy? This is a key question anyone who is engaged in the construction of cottage or only designs the future of housing. Most homeowners consider vestibule necessary in our harsh climate, because this room should be a reliable barrier to the cold way. Others believe that modern doors, insulation and heating systems can do without it. And in general, whether vestibule necessarily be cold? Or instead it is better to arrange a warm hallway? Their experiences and opinions are divided participants FORUMHOUSE.

Choosing a door

The main reason why homeowners decide to build a vestibule - the reluctance to let in house the cold air from the street every time you open the front door. In addition, there are concerns that the door that leads from the street directly to the house, because of the differences in temperature will freeze, and in the winter on it will form frost and ice. In many cases, this problem can be solved by installing a second door.

According to a participant FORUMHOUSE IvanauAir - one of the best insulators. That is why the old masters of the windows left distance between frames (the airspace there are modern double-glazed windows), and is attached to the house will certainly cool canopy. If the layout of the house does not allow take a vestibule a few square meters, the second door is installed in the same opening as the street. One door opens to the outside at the same time, and the other - inside. Cold outside air flows are retained in the space between the doors, which prevents the formation condensate and frost (or, if the space between the doors is too small, it is formed in smaller quantities).

Aleksey4 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- I have a wooden house, front doors - metal, winter has begun to flow. I will put a second inner door - wood or of metal and plastic - in the same box.

What doors installed at the entrance to the house? This issue homeowners fit with scrutiny. Traditionally, many prefer the metal front door. But the metal - metal discord. And those same doors, which are suitable for apartments, can create problems with freezing in a country house.

Metal door, installed in the street, must necessarily be insulated. Especially if the vestibule is not at all, and once you get to the threshold of the house, or you are planning to arrange a winterized porch. Pay attention to the quality of filler: Usually manufacturers use mineral wool, expanded polystyrene (styrofoam) and polyurethane (foam). Last good because it does not form a joint - cold bridges: the door is filled with liquid foam by pouring bespustotnoy. Mineral wool is also well retains heat, but it all depends on the feedstock quality, its density and thickness. Best of all, if the mineral board made of basalt and has a high density, or wool may soon settle and the door starts to freeze. Hard polystyrene keeps excellent shape, but the cold can penetrate through joints if they are of poor quality or zapeneny nezapeneny all. In addition, polystyrene is considered unreliable in terms of fire safety.

Ametist:

- Personally, I solved the problem of "crying" door penofolom 10 mm. This year, not a single drop was not formed, and on the porch was actually warmer - before there is an IR heater could not rise above + 10 ° C, this winter confidently holds +15 C.

Also, manufacturers are now offering doors with thermal insulation between the layers, which, coupled with the traditional mineral wool, and cork used izolon coating that reduces the risk of cold penetration, and sounds from the street.

mbl (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- Install the door with a thermal break, in January frosts I checked her imager - a specially rented. Temperature overboard was -20 degrees, +22 indoors. The overall result: the door leaf on the "five", thermorupture works. But the magnetic seal - not super in terms of integrity. In the corners, where the joints of his siphon frost - in the photo can be seen. Now I am the seal on the piece, but he probably will not be magnetic.

Other feedback from our members of the forum on the door with a thermal read here.

When choosing a door, be sure to check the reliability of the junction of the door leaf to the unit, the quality of the seals. Many manufacturers save on accessories, installing foam gaskets or seals are made of thin cheap rubber, which can be easily damaged or harden in the cold.

Spend in the store a little test: Take a sheet of paper, put it between the door leaf and the block and close the door. See how easy it is when the door is closed, you can remove the sheet. He falls into your hands? This door has a loose connection, and the cold will pass freely through the gap.

Expensive solution to get rid of condensation and frost - metal doors with heat cable, located inside the door frame. By means of the control unit can set the desired temperature regime in the door depending on the temperature outdoors and indoors, humidity, frequency of opening and closing the front door. The power consumption of the door, according to the manufacturer, is comparable to a PC-power.

Another point - the interior of a metal door. This may be MDF, PVC-coating, veneer, mirror. Not all finishes are adapted to tough use, temperature and rainfall: they can swell from moisture and becomes unusable. In the accompanying documentation to the door it must be stated whether it is possible to install a door in the street as in a country house in the absence or presence of cold / warm vestibule. To protect themselves against unpleasant surprises can select a metal door, in which both sides - outer and inner - made of powder coated metal. It is not afraid to mechanical impact and protect the material from corrosion.

EASI of metal as well as wood and metal door in a private house, see the this topic. The experience of our members of the forum for self-warming metal door - here.

Warm hallway, comfortable flooring

But the door - not the only vulnerable spot vestibule. Some homeowners are deciding on a cold cut and pristraivaya the building cool canopy, faced with another problem: fogged windows and walls in the room.

Nadia29(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- In the cold vestibule ceiling sewn 10 cm foam, finished with clapboard. After that, the walls began to appear frost. Insulate the inside wall 5 cm foam, Stopper. As a result, in winter the walls began to drain the water, and ice forms on the floor.

Outputs of such situation may be several: the device in the vestibule ventilation, insulation built outside - from the street, as well as holding the heating unit or laying of floor heating. You can approach the problem comprehensively and apply several measures to combat humidity.

Warm vestibule will be useful from the economic point of view - even in the winter it can be operated as a hallway or closet. And having come in from the cold, so nice to throw shoes and step on the heated floor!

Talesya(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- For me, the vestibule is not so much a place of cold cut, as the cut-off dirt and mess. It seems to me there comfortably take off one's shoes, in order not to drag the dirty shoes in the hallway, in the winter can throw ski, shovel, street children leave toys.

Which option you choose for your home - a cold or a warm vestibule hallway? Advice of our members of the forum in this topicto help make the right decision. We Also Recommend The plot of the pipes for floor heating device on video portals FORUMHOUSE.

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