On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:38:05 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
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"T i m" wrote in message
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Hi All,

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Anyone done similar, any thoughts or reservations etc please?

All the best ..

Not really similar but Spouse, fed up with rotting and easily broken into
wooden garage doors made steel ones - on hinges though. He made a steel
framework and clad them with sheet steel, can't remember the gauge. They are
very strong and don't look bad. The white Hammerite is beinginning to get a
bit knocked about and it could do with a new coat but it's lasted for many
years. No rotting and, to date, burglar-proof.

Mary

She's alive!

Where were you when I needed you on uk.food+drink.misc (they were
picking on me Mary!)

Anyway, thanks for the reply darlin and the feedback.

I've done the same as 'spouse' with my workshop replacing an 8' square
up_and_over door with a triple door and fanlight type assembly all in
steel. The l/h door is the 'personal one' and the other two 'bi-fold'
when (if) I need to open the lot up.

The gate will be a slightly different badger as it's going to be a 12'
'unsupported' span (the wheels will be at / near the ends). Also the
'hounds' are going to have to get past that to get to the workshop and
between the two are the plasma cannon and ion field generator. ;-)

I think my local steel fabrication place stock all the bracketwork
'off_the_shelf' so that might save a bit of work, it's just what guage
/ section to do the gate bit in is my first question?

All the best ..

Yours .. ;-)

T i m