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New Garage Door

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  • 16-03-2020 1:48pm
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    bamayang
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Have a double garage, with two up and over roller type doors on it. I'm going to insulate the walls and roof of the garage over the next few weeks. I do a lot of wood working in their and the cold and dampness would eventually get you!!! It doesnt need to be warm, but i need to get the moisture levels down. Currently you'd nearly get your finger through the gaps between the wall openings and the roller door. Serious breeze coming in through each one.

    What i want to do is take down the roller doors and replace with DIY timber doors. Havent much experience with doors before, so would appreciate advise from anyone who has.
    Frame timber - Can this be construction grade, treated wood? Was going to make a 4x2 frame for the opening and then build a 4x2 door frame within this, with diagonal bracing. Can the corners be glued and screwed, or should it be mortise and tennon joints?
    Panelling - Is there a type of timber best to use to panel the door on the outside? Something that will last well against rain? Should it be tongue and grooved into each other to prevent ingress of rain?

    Any advise apprecaited.


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    #2
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users Posts: 12,193 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    I would work inside, leaving the r/s doors.
    it has been done before here.
    Working with wood when you don't need to worry about driving rain is a doddle.
    You could just sheet the framework front and back with wpb ply, screwed and glued.
    M&T always a better job
    Make the bottom rail 6 inches deep
    If softwood is exposed to wet it will swell up and then in summer shrink

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    bamayang
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭bamayang


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    I would work inside, leaving the r/s doors.
    it has been done before here.
    Working with wood when you don't need to worry about driving rain is a doddle.
    You could just sheet the framework front and back with wpb ply, screwed and glued.
    M&T always a better job
    Make the bottom rail 6 inches deep
    If softwood is exposed to wet it will swell up and then in summer shrink

    That’s not really a runner. The roller shutter doors are mounted on the internal face of the walls. The timber has to be outside them.

    Why the bottom rail 6 inches deep?


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