this has nothing to do with trailers except you can see the rear of my excella in one of the pics. that is why it is in the off topic forum.
just completed redoing the interior of my 100 year old horse barn i use for a garage/shop. i raised the walls 4 inches and completely reframed and insulated the walls.
what i need to do now is build a new set of swinging doors! what i need is some ideas on a design. i refuse to use plastic roll up doors from the home center.
i will build them from scratch... i just need some ideas. any of you out there with vintage buildings? any ideas?
i would really like to to have windows in the top 1/3 of the doors if possible.
any one feel like doing some cut and paste?
photos would be great!
john
here it is... outside and inside
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My father built doors on our summer house many many years ago - used tongue and groove wood with a "z" on it to hold it all together - kinda hard to describe, but kinda cool looking. I have a client that custom builds doors, I'll see if I can get ideas from them and perhaps send them to you - whats your timeframe? I'm Airstreaming/biking this weekend in Moab, so it will be mid week before I get back.
the time frame is flexible, mrs. HD would prefer i redeck the front porch before i start this project! she spends most of her time there doing her paintings and birdhouses. i gotta jack the roof up and replace about 50 doug fir boards.
have fun in moab, and send ideas if you get time....no hurry!
john
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john, i have some photos of old buildings with some nice designed doors. problem is they are not digital, i will try to get them scanned and see how they come out. if they don't i could snail-mail them to you. it will take me a few days, going to grandsons baptisim over the weekend. back mid week, i'll try then. (also will take me some time to find and dig out photos)
I did a lot of research into swinging doors for my barn also. Your barn is different than mine in that you are putting doors on the gable end. My doors are on the eave. You can have your doors swing in or out. When you start building doors of the size nessary to let an AS pass they become very large and subsequently very heavy. The proper hinges then become a problem. You will need three or four hinges on each side that will carry a substantial load. I found some in McMaster Carr. They are not cheap. I think they are over $100 a piece. When I began pricing out swinging doors of the proper thickness and strenght, they were more expensive than custom installed, steel insulated overhead doors. I know overhead doors don't look the same, but you know, they keep the bad stuff out and the good stuff in.
BTY, if you want, I'm willing to part with these hinges for a song. PM me if you're interested.
Mark
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I've enclosed pic of barn doors I've built. Total cost $100 including hardware and paint. The pic of the doors you like would be easy to adapt to the method I used.
Raining in Ohio,
Dave
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mark, pm me with the details on the hinges if you would. my garage is so small i would never fit any airstream in it except for a 16 footer with 3 feet missing from the top!
dave, are the doors based on plywood? i may consider something similar to help them retain squareness. the ones on the little white garage use the 45 degree framing method, and seemed to be pretty square for thier age.
keep the ideas coming!
you too norby!
john
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here is a little more info, sorry for the delay my cdrw drive was giving me fits!
now that i can access the rest of my pics here is one showing a long shot of the house in relationship to the garage.
my place was built around 1906 prior to city water and widespread use of automobiles. hence the need for horses and the barn.
it is two stories as you can see, the loft was used for feed and there is still a chute for tossing hay down. i kept it when i redid the interior just for the novelty and being able to pass large objects between floors.
also during the interior reframing i noticed the remains of stalls and a much narrower left side door. i'm guessing the side the animals were on may have had a dutch door.
when the horse and buggy were replaced in the '20s i imagine the doors were widened for automobiles.
one of my other projects is to run water and sewer out to the right side so i can have a complete "full" hookup! but, that is a few projects down the list...
my nieghbors are still amazed every time i back the excella in!
john
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hadn't really given dutch doors much thought until you posted the pic.
one nice benefit of them would be that i could have my two dogs out there with me. if i leave them in the back yard they tend to get into trouble with the stray cats in the 'hood!
and yes i can say wiiiiilllbuuuur!
john
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John,
I like your house. It reminds me of my cousin's house when he lived in Conn.
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