Hi

Ok - well the task the coming year looks like I hace to totally redo the
bathroom.

Now the room is small with the door in the centre of the room.
What I as thinking instead of having an inward or outward opening door,
is bulk out one side of the wall and have a sliding door that fits
inside the wall partition. Hopefully would save some space and make the
room feel roomier when the door is opened.

Question is - has anyone done this and is there any kits on the market.
Had a search on B&q site etc and no joy.

Any ideas?

Scott

Scott wrote:

Hi

Ok - well the task the coming year looks like I hace to totally redo the
bathroom.

Now the room is small with the door in the centre of the room.
What I as thinking instead of having an inward or outward opening door,
is bulk out one side of the wall and have a sliding door that fits
inside the wall partition. Hopefully would save some space and make the
room feel roomier when the door is opened.

Question is - has anyone done this and is there any kits on the market.
Had a search on B&q site etc and no joy.

Any ideas?

Scott

From google "sliding door gear":

http://www.sdslondon.co.uk/products.php?parent_id=198

A reasonable selection of running gear - you'll have to design
the "contained in the wall" bit yourself.

HTH

Tim

Scott wrote:

What I as thinking instead of having an inward or outward opening door,
is bulk out one side of the wall and have a sliding door that fits
inside the wall partition. Hopefully would save some space and make the
room feel roomier when the door is opened.

I don't know what you mean by "bulk out one side of the wall".
I have made a sliding door that fits entirely within the wall. At the
door opening I have two vertical pieces of 1½" angle steel with
horizontal pieces of 4"x1" screwed to them, to attach the wallboard to
on each side. The rollers and track are commercially available.

Scott wrote:

Hi

Ok - well the task the coming year looks like I hace to totally redo the
bathroom.

Now the room is small with the door in the centre of the room.
What I as thinking instead of having an inward or outward opening door,
is bulk out one side of the wall and have a sliding door that fits
inside the wall partition. Hopefully would save some space and make the
room feel roomier when the door is opened.

Question is - has anyone done this and is there any kits on the market.
Had a search on B&q site etc and no joy.

Any ideas?

Scott

sliding wardrobe door mechas are not hard to find. Just need a decent
one with bottom as well as top restraint.


NT

On 26 Dec 2006 07:07:17 -0800, wrote:

Scott wrote:

Hi

Ok - well the task the coming year looks like I hace to totally redo the
bathroom.

Now the room is small with the door in the centre of the room.
What I as thinking instead of having an inward or outward opening door,
is bulk out one side of the wall and have a sliding door that fits
inside the wall partition. Hopefully would save some space and make the
room feel roomier when the door is opened.

Question is - has anyone done this and is there any kits on the market.
Had a search on B&q site etc and no joy.

www.pchenderson.com
I have the catalogue but thats as far as I've gone so far though I
will be doing exactly the same as you - shoehorning extra space into a
small bathroom

Anna

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Anna Kettle wrote:

re sliding door gear.

www.pchenderson.com
I have the catalogue but thats as far as I've gone so far though I
will be doing exactly the same as you - shoehorning extra space into a
small bathroom

Anna

yeah but why pick them. More garage door mecha failures than all the
others combined.


NT

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:08:24 GMT, Scott
wrote:



Question is - has anyone done this and is there any kits on the market.
Had a search on B&q site etc and no joy.

Any ideas?

Scott


i fitted one at work last tuesday
fitted the track to the ceiling---it should be level so some 1mm
packers are well handy
there was also provision for fixing to the wall....easier if you can
do it this way
the bottom guide ran in a groove which i routered in the bottom of the
door after it was trimmed to length

a couple of things i would point out
you dont need to run this inside a double wall or partition
if you buy a door an inch or so wider than the opening you can run it
against the existing arcs and skirting and mount the stops
appropriately
btw the kit i used had puny stops so if you use a heavy door watch out
for this
and you may have to make a pelmet to hide the mechanism


also i would drop a plumb bob down both legs of the door frame before
you start just in case they are badly in wind



hth

breeze

Scott wrote:

Question is - has anyone done this and is there any kits on the market.
Had a search on B&q site etc and no joy.

I came across these a while ago, and am considering fitting one soon
http://www.eclisse.co.uk/whatarethey.htm

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Scott wrote:

Question is - has anyone done this and is there any kits on the market.
Had a search on B&q site etc and no joy.

I came across these a while ago, and am considering fitting one soon
http://www.eclisse.co.uk/whatarethey.htm

Let me know if you get one please.

Adam

ARWadsworth wrote:

Let me know if you get one please.

Will do, though decision is still a week or two away ...

Andy Burns wrote:

ARWadsworth wrote:

Let me know if you get one please.


Will do, though decision is still a week or two away ...

I'd be interested in hearing about it, too - we're looking into
replacing an inward-opening bathroom door.

S Viemeister wrote:

I'd be interested in hearing about it, too - we're looking into
replacing an inward-opening bathroom door.

Sounds like there's about four of us here (plus any lurkers) all
planning refurbishing small bathrooms this month :-)

Andy Burns wrote:
S Viemeister wrote:

I'd be interested in hearing about it, too - we're looking into
replacing an inward-opening bathroom door.

Sounds like there's about four of us here (plus any lurkers) all
planning refurbishing small bathrooms this month :-)

I finished my small "bathroom" some years ago. In it is a flush toilet
and a handbasin with cupboard underneath. It measures 26" x 65", so
that's why I needed a door that slid inside the wall. Otherwise the
open door would touch the wall on the other side of the room, or the
other side of the passage outside if it opened the other way.
I have a lot of tiles that I wanted to put on the wall, but I was
worried about making the room half an inch narrower by putting tiles on
the wall. My mother wouldn't be able to get in the room

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
S Viemeister wrote:

I'd be interested in hearing about it, too - we're looking into replacing
an inward-opening bathroom door.

Sounds like there's about four of us here (plus any lurkers) all planning
refurbishing small bathrooms this month :-)

Mine will have to wait until other tasks are done. The fact that these doors
do an electric open/close make them look even better. Take some photos if
you do get and install one.

Adam