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So a mate of mine is doing a barn conversion,
There is an original barn door on one side, huge double wooden thing that goes right up to the roof and the plan is to replace this door with a wall of glass panels with smaller doors inserted into this glass wall.
The glass wall will be a set of smaller panels within wooden framework I expect.
The new smaller doors will be leading out onto a patio area and he is planning on having the kitchen in this space.
I was down there yesterday having a look as he wants me to make up an island unit for this kitchen, this is going to hold some integrated appliances, mainly the messy ones like a deep fryer and a electric barbeque and griddle pan, things that make a lot of smoke as there is plenty of room for a big extractor to hang above it.
What he wants to do is be able to take the whole island outside on the 2 days a year when the sun shines.
My first thought would be to put it on wheels, the kitchen floor is going to be polished concrete, the patio area is supposed to be slabs but nothing is done yet so it could have a concrete area or strip put in just outside of the door for the island unit to roll out onto.
That's about as far as we got with the plans so far, if the unit was to be wheeled out/in then the doors would need to be frameless (only on the bottom) or the frames recessed into the floor.
The concern then is if the recessed frame would get damaged by wheeling a heavy unit over it and also how well it would be waterproof with the doors closed especially if it had a flat area of patio outside that was at the same level as the kitchen floor.
We decided the patio would not be able to slope away from the house or the island unit would run away when pushed outside and be hard to push back in. I then suggested a pair of rails for the unit to run on and a motor to drive it out/in. He really likes that idea but again, they would need to go past the door frame somehow and the doors would need to seal the weather out when shut.
The wheeled version would work better for me as I could make it up off site but he has left me to present him with some suitable doors to make it work first!
Any ideas on frameless doors or any better ways to do it?
There is an original barn door on one side, huge double wooden thing that goes right up to the roof and the plan is to replace this door with a wall of glass panels with smaller doors inserted into this glass wall.
The glass wall will be a set of smaller panels within wooden framework I expect.
The new smaller doors will be leading out onto a patio area and he is planning on having the kitchen in this space.
I was down there yesterday having a look as he wants me to make up an island unit for this kitchen, this is going to hold some integrated appliances, mainly the messy ones like a deep fryer and a electric barbeque and griddle pan, things that make a lot of smoke as there is plenty of room for a big extractor to hang above it.
What he wants to do is be able to take the whole island outside on the 2 days a year when the sun shines.
My first thought would be to put it on wheels, the kitchen floor is going to be polished concrete, the patio area is supposed to be slabs but nothing is done yet so it could have a concrete area or strip put in just outside of the door for the island unit to roll out onto.
That's about as far as we got with the plans so far, if the unit was to be wheeled out/in then the doors would need to be frameless (only on the bottom) or the frames recessed into the floor.
The concern then is if the recessed frame would get damaged by wheeling a heavy unit over it and also how well it would be waterproof with the doors closed especially if it had a flat area of patio outside that was at the same level as the kitchen floor.
We decided the patio would not be able to slope away from the house or the island unit would run away when pushed outside and be hard to push back in. I then suggested a pair of rails for the unit to run on and a motor to drive it out/in. He really likes that idea but again, they would need to go past the door frame somehow and the doors would need to seal the weather out when shut.
The wheeled version would work better for me as I could make it up off site but he has left me to present him with some suitable doors to make it work first!
Any ideas on frameless doors or any better ways to do it?