what would you need to make a sliding door

f140

I have one open shed that used to be an old silage pit before and want to make a sliding door for the open side. its about 24 ft wide and there are h irons at the sides and other sheds to the other sides. never made a sliding door before and want to know how to go about it. what would I need to do to get it sliding. would I need to weld something on to the h irons?

http://www.donedeal.ie/farmsheds-for-sale/steel-shed/5200722
it would be like putting a sliding door onto this shed but the roof sheets come down straight across and there is the back of two sheds at either side which I would want the door to slide over.

Sam Kade

A roller door could work out cheaper and more compact. For a sliding door on that shed you would be better off with two half doors. You need box iron, cladding, channel or h iron for rail, and rail with running gear. I made a 6'x6' sliding door back in 1997 the materials cost €180 that was before my own labour to make and hang the door.

Dupont

You want a track at the top bolted on to the timbers the sheets are nailed to its probably a 6x3. New sheds a 9x3 is put in there to carry door track. A couple of wheels I'm each half of door section and when your doors are made sheeted and hung weld in a keeper to the girder for it to slide against.

f140

Sam Kade wrote: »

A roller door could work out cheaper and more compact. For a sliding door on that shed you would be better off with two half doors. You need box iron, cladding, channel or h iron for rail, and rail with running gear. I made a 6'x6' sliding door back in 1997 the materials cost €180 that was before my own labour to make and hang the door.

yes I would be going for two half doors where one would slide either side of the shed. a roller would be fairly expensive id say and I have plenty of time to be welding it up on the wet days.

JohnBoy

I recently re-did an old sliding door onto henderson track. I maybe used one size heavier track than needed, but a single 3m door cost nearly €300 in track, brackets, trolleys, nuts and bolts.

It aint cheap stuff, but it's a great job. So much safer than the old school roller that could lift off the track.

yellow50HX

what height door are you looking at? from the description you would need the door to be able to move accross the leanto's at each side. You will need the top rail to be able to take the weight of the door when open and closed so i would suggest a door running on a floor track that will take the full weight with the top rail to hold it in place. You will need to put up pillars at each end of the rail to hold the doors in the open position. Is there room to put these in with out restriacting the access to the sehds either side. Also i wouldnt tie any frame into the roof steel. use the 2 side H irons and end pillars to take the weight of the top rail.