MitreKnown
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Hi everyone, excited to join. I'm not very experienced, but have enough tools to get myself into trouble.
I want to make some garage doors for the garage workshop I am building to take my woodworking further. I want them to be insulated and look traditional (garage workshop will be timber clad with brick plinth and plain clay tiles, when finished. Part of a new house build). The openings are approximately 8' wide and 7' high, so would each be split into two doors. I was thinking along the lines of the following design:
Would it make for a reasonably secure door? I could add a 1mm sheet of glavanised steel between the exterior marine plywood and the doors 'skeleton' frame, but that would add quite a bit of weight (+20kg per door).
I'm sure I could buy better doors, but what's the fun in that.
I want to make some garage doors for the garage workshop I am building to take my woodworking further. I want them to be insulated and look traditional (garage workshop will be timber clad with brick plinth and plain clay tiles, when finished. Part of a new house build). The openings are approximately 8' wide and 7' high, so would each be split into two doors. I was thinking along the lines of the following design:
- 9mm (12mm better?) marine plywood exterior (ideally v-grooved vertically)
- 3x2 treated CLS timber 'skeleton' frame with 40mm Celotex in. Two vertical stiles, three horizontal rails/ledgers and two angled braces.
- 9mm marine plywood interior
- Aluminium or galvanised 70x50x1 mm u-channel along the bottom edge with brush screwed on inside
- 57mm height softwood door drip along bottom edge exterior
- Screwed and glued with stainless steel cuntersunk 4mm dia screws with woodfiller over (or could I screw from the inside without penetrating through the exterior plywood)
- 3x4 treated CLS wooden frame with 3x large butt hinges per door
- Painted in something like Dulux Weathershield
- Possibly with a window along the top if I get adventurous / over confident
Would it make for a reasonably secure door? I could add a 1mm sheet of glavanised steel between the exterior marine plywood and the doors 'skeleton' frame, but that would add quite a bit of weight (+20kg per door).
I'm sure I could buy better doors, but what's the fun in that.