"T i m" wrote in message
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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!)

Oh, I'm sorry. I got a tad bored with them. If yoyu'd said (pribvately) I'd
have come back from the dead to support you. I did in another ng when I was
told they were talking about me ... What were they saying?

Anyway, thanks for the reply darlin and the feedback.

My pleasure.

I've done the same as 'spouse'

Capital 'S' if you don't mind ...

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.

Unfortunately, because of the ahem junk in front of the rh door (facing)
ours is un-openable anyway but since the ahem garage isn't used to contain
the car that's not an issue. The carport was built to protect the car.

Unfortunately because of other ahem stuff (like trailer, ANOTHER
workbench, trailer tent, gas cooker still to be sold on e-bay when he gets
round to it)) the car is only half way under the carport.

But at our age does it matter?

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. ;-)

You mean your car won't have to go past it?

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?

Shall I ask Him?

Mary