Hi all,
Hoping for some advice on my project...I seem to have brain freeze from the cold weather and cannot make a decision on approach for building some bi-fold doors for my new shed.
I am building some bi-fold
doors for this structure:
The reason for the bi-fold doors as that the opening is about 3.5m which would make the doors take-up most of the garden when opening it. I also didnt want to make the doors narrow as the shed is not very deep, so this is more like a wardrobe/shelving shed - you wont be able to walk into it.
So I have successfully made some bifold doors for a smaller bike shed that I am also building, but they doors were a bit tricky and annoying in some respect - > getting everything lined up, and realising that the cladding spacing is not always 100% right owing to the structure not being 100% perfect in dimensions/right angles.
Question:- how would you go about building this?
I was thinking of building the door frames, in a single piece in situ across the shed, then installing the cladding to the frame leaving a few gaps for me to get in and out. Then, in theory I could cut the frame in the correct locations, installing the brackets on each cut. That should get me a perfect set of doors. Its a bit of a fiddly approach, but might reduce a bunch of pain afterwards?
Option 2 -> is to do what I did with the last one, but that would seem to need a tonne of precise measuring, and even then I am not fully sure that I would get exactly the finish that I want?
Would love to hear your ideas.
Jon
Other shed:
Hoping for some advice on my project...I seem to have brain freeze from the cold weather and cannot make a decision on approach for building some bi-fold doors for my new shed.
I am building some bi-fold
doors for this structure:
The reason for the bi-fold doors as that the opening is about 3.5m which would make the doors take-up most of the garden when opening it. I also didnt want to make the doors narrow as the shed is not very deep, so this is more like a wardrobe/shelving shed - you wont be able to walk into it.
So I have successfully made some bifold doors for a smaller bike shed that I am also building, but they doors were a bit tricky and annoying in some respect - > getting everything lined up, and realising that the cladding spacing is not always 100% right owing to the structure not being 100% perfect in dimensions/right angles.
Question:- how would you go about building this?
I was thinking of building the door frames, in a single piece in situ across the shed, then installing the cladding to the frame leaving a few gaps for me to get in and out. Then, in theory I could cut the frame in the correct locations, installing the brackets on each cut. That should get me a perfect set of doors. Its a bit of a fiddly approach, but might reduce a bunch of pain afterwards?
Option 2 -> is to do what I did with the last one, but that would seem to need a tonne of precise measuring, and even then I am not fully sure that I would get exactly the finish that I want?
Would love to hear your ideas.
Jon
Other shed: