Making large wooden garage door

[Ollie78]

Thanks Ollie

Your door looks brilliant, a cracking job. I’ll def incorporate those bird mouth joints into my braces too

So did you use through tenons on all the rails?

Cheers
Pete

Yes, full tenons on the rails and stiles. On the diagonal braces I think I did one large domino on each end, just to keep it flat during assembly.

 

[AJBaker]

I was going to say the same as @johnnyb about the braces.

Here is a door I did as example.
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You just make a little mdf jig to router the pocket out.

Does anyone know why the pictures don`t show in the body of the message I just inserted them as normal ??

Nice! What does the other side look like?

 

[Fitzroy]

I initially posted that "I think you need full through edged M&Ts on the four corners, ideally on all the joints but dominos on the other two would be a compromise. Big external doors are likely to 'bang' at least a few times during their life, when the wind grabs them they just go, and the forces during these events are huge with such a heavy door"

I then got thinking about the ledged and brace oak gate/side door I built a few years back. It has no frame and whilst it is much smaller (1.5m x 0.8m) it has slammed hundreds of times over the last few years to no visible ill effect. I think a lot of the strength comes from having every board attached to the ledge and braces. With floating boards I think you need full M&Ts at the corners but with a build as per AJBakers diagram dominos would likely suffice.