Charlie390
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Evening gents,
I've been thinking over a project for quite awhile and could do with some advice. I'm lucky/unlucky enough to have a few old stone farm buildings and I've been eyeing up one of them for use as a potential workshop. Before anything though, I'd like to make it as secure as possible. At the minute there is a rickety wooden door that is just about hanging onto the frame.
Ideally I'd like to replace this with a steel framed wooden door, however attaching any type of frame to the surrounding stone work is a real pain, mainly as the stone wall consists of two layers of stone filled in with rubble in the middle.
What I have been thinking of doing is welding a metal door frame from box section and setting it in concrete. If I set the bottom metre or so in concrete would this give me the necessary strength for the door frame?
I've been thinking over a project for quite awhile and could do with some advice. I'm lucky/unlucky enough to have a few old stone farm buildings and I've been eyeing up one of them for use as a potential workshop. Before anything though, I'd like to make it as secure as possible. At the minute there is a rickety wooden door that is just about hanging onto the frame.
Ideally I'd like to replace this with a steel framed wooden door, however attaching any type of frame to the surrounding stone work is a real pain, mainly as the stone wall consists of two layers of stone filled in with rubble in the middle.
What I have been thinking of doing is welding a metal door frame from box section and setting it in concrete. If I set the bottom metre or so in concrete would this give me the necessary strength for the door frame?