Making Garage doors Advice please

[Markymark]

I have to replace some very old garage doors and want to create some from tantalized pine (C24).

I have never made anything like this. It will be ledged and braced and my question is does the angle of the brace have a minimum angle. It is just that the doors are rectangular and the diagonal between both corners will be about 33 degrees.

Any help much appreciated each leaf will be 1224 wide by 2127 high.

Mark

 

[Scoffy]

Nope, just as long as it is a snug fit between the ledges.

 

[RobinBHM]

You can always notch the braces into the ledges, in which case you could make the angle of your choosing. My guess is that an angle of 45 degrees or steeper is the aim.

Framed ledged and braced doors are less likely to drop than ledged and braced which are reliant on screws / nail fixings and tend to drop over time.

 

[Waka]

I have to replace some very old garage doors and want to create some from tantalized pine (C24).

I have never made anything like this. It will be ledged and braced and my question is does the angle of the brace have a minimum angle. It is just that the doors are rectangular and the diagonal between both corners will be about 33 degrees.

Any help much appreciated each leaf will be 1224 wide by 2127 high.

Mark

Mark

Please let me know how you get on, I've got to do the same for my workshop.

 

[Halo Jones]

From "Doormaking and Window Making" - the old publication relaunched by lost art press the only thing to note is that the bottom of brace goes to the hinge side and the top of the brace should only be against the top rail and not touch the non-hinged stile. The reason it gives for this is that if the brace is against the stile then there is a chance it could start to push the stile away from the rail.

I haven't made one yet but the reason I have been reading up on this is I have quite a big garden gate to make in this style.

H.

 

[Halo Jones]

I should have also added that I made some garage doors using the torison box technique. 12mm ply on outside 9mm on inside, sandwiched with a 50 mm frame that was infilled with 50 mm celotex. I then planted a frame on the outside. I made these 4 years ago and has lasted well but there is now some evidence of the planted frame moving (very) slightly and two small patches of the ply rippling. I used "exterior" ply but it definitely wasn't the best exterior ply. Still I have no reason expect them failing in the next 10 years.

H.