Anyone side hinged their up and over garage door?

[jimbo84]

The access door could open outwards

Every inch of the wall space inside is used, I’d still have to lose the width of the door even if it opened outwards.

 

[CompoSimmonite]

Every inch of the wall space inside is used, I’d still have to lose the width of the door even if it opened outwards.

Sound like you might benefit from a shed at bottom of garden

 

[roofman]

This is the kind of thing I had in mind, just not sure how it’d go with it being fibreglass. And once it’s cut there’s no coming back.

Line the inside with 12mm plywood or OSB, give it some rigidity

 

[gaz1]

That is what I'm going to do - make three sections to replace the up and over. One will open as an access door and the other two fold out of the way when full opening needed. Frame will be angle iron with timber infill panels.

you mean the access door or also known as the man door within a door

 

[jimbo84]

you mean the access door or also known as the man door within a door

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These would be the perfect solution.

 

[jimbo84]

Sound like you might benefit from a shed at bottom of garden

We already do 2 small ones, That’s where the pushbike/kids/garden toys live though, and then there’s another with all the garden tools etc live. As understanding as the other half is if a workshop shed turned up as well that might just be the straw that broke the camels back.

 

[gaz1]

to give you an idea of access with that door you have




i can fit a door and seal it to what you have just by using whats available off the shelf

 

[redlig]

Make a left and a right door frame in wood or steel . Junk all the original steel work .cut the f/g down the middle and bond the F/G halves to the new frames.

 

[Dilkris]

to give you an idea of access with that door you have

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i can fit a door and seal it to what you have just by using whats available off the shelf

I don't understand this - when you open the man access door you appear to walk into 2 horizontal stiffeners (?) plus the bars of the locking mechanism.

 

[redlig]

I don't understand this - when you open the man access door you appear to walk into 2 horizontal stiffeners (?) plus the bars of the locking mechanism.

Look closer.

 

[Dilkris]

I don't see it - anybody else?

 

[Screwdriver]

I don't see it - anybody else?

Think he means the suggestion for removing all the mechanism and just using the door skin with a new framework.

 

[Migmac]

Here’s mine, bands are 36 inches long, bolted through the door and a wooden frame on the inside

 

[gaz1]

I don't understand this - when you open the man access door you appear to walk into 2 horizontal stiffeners (?) plus the bars of the locking mechanism.

the middle lock uses a twist cam to open the door with adjustments you can refit more twist cams to still open the door at the middle

either way its a door off to do the work needed and personally id rather build brand new doors with a man access door

 

[jimbo84]

to give you an idea of access with that door you have

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i can fit a door and seal it to what you have just by using whats available off the shelf

I like this idea and think it might be the route I go down.

I think I’d combine it with respraying the door to further disguise it.

 

[Dilkris]

to give you an idea of access with that door you have

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i can fit a door and seal it to what you have just by using whats available off the shelf

That's a double skinned Hormann garage door... good luck insetting a man access door into that.

 

[Tom O]

Nice door. I'd simply fit a power opener

I’ll never have one of those for my garage, #1) I can’t park in the 2car garage, #2) I always enter from the front and might use the alleyway behind the house once or twice a year except for putting the garbage in the recycle bins.

 

[Tom O]

I don't understand this - when you open the man access door you appear to walk into 2 horizontal stiffeners (?) plus the bars of the locking mechanism.

Yes you can become a Limbo Champ!

 

[jimbo84]

Uh oh…


Was a bit stressful going past the point of no return but it has turned out ok. Need to add some more timber round the locks and I’m going to add some to the back of the fibreglass to strengthen it. Also needs some seals to the edges of the door and a bit of touching up to the frame where it’s been cut.

 

[Erie Fred]

How do you open the door when the snow slides off the roof and piles infront of it ?