Building Doors

[wnybassman]

Soon I will be building my doors for my shack, and have several ideas floating around in my head on how to do it. I have one 36" door opening and a 48" opening. The 36" will be a single out-swinging door and the 48" will be two 24" out-swinging double doors. The exterior of the doors will be rough sawn hemlock. I know the doors will be heavy, and I will need as much diagonal support as possible to prevent sagging.

If anyone has pictures of their doors I would love to look at them to fine tune my ideas, or come up with something completely different.

[maple flats]

I don't have any pics (except in my signature) but my doors are also heavy hemlock, one is 36" the other is a double door of 2 totaling 58". All I have is 1 diagonal from high on the hinge side to low on the other side. The diagonal is also hemlock, a 1x4 and there has been no sagging in 11 years. Just be sure you fasten then well. I just used 2.5" galv. nails and clinched the points over to lock them from loosening. Nothing fancy, but effective. I have 4 strap hinges on each door, they are about 6" on each section (sturdy).

[maple flats]

I did find one picture of the double door end. http://i1041.photobucket.com/albums/b418/Daveandjoanssugarhouse/around%20the%20sugarhouse/P1010076.jpg (http://s1041.photobucket.com/user/Daveandjoanssugarhouse/media/around%20the%20sugarhouse/P1010076.jpg.html)

[lpakiz]

You could laminate a piece of 3/8 or 1/2 inch plywood into the door. Guaranteed never to sag.

[mountain man maple]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/11/yhu7e6e2.jpglHere's a picture of inside and outside of one of my double doors. They fit a 60" opening. No sags in 3 years.


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[wnybassman]

You could laminate a piece of 3/8 or 1/2 inch plywood into the door. Guaranteed never to sag.

That was one of my thoughts. There are a few ways I could go about it that way as well.

[wnybassman]

No sags in 3 years.


Do you mainly contribute that to those brackets on the inside?

[mountain man maple]

Brackets I'm sure help some but 2x4 keeps everything together as well. Boards on doors are nailed onto 2x4 with 10 d maze nails. Door is hung with two strap hinges and lagged on both sides. Lags go into 2x4 on door and into 4x4 post on building.