nixy Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Any budding builders/handy men amongst you? I have a double garage but it has two single doors with a brick pillar inbetween. I want to change the doors to one large roller door. There is already an RSJ across running right across the width of the whole garage. I've found a great website that sell these doors for half of what I would expect to pay but how complicated/expensive do you think the actual work involved would be? The two existing doors are seven feet wide each and the middle brick part is about two and a half feet. The new door would probably by fourteen feet wide (could get 16 but more expensive) and roller doors don't need a frame. This means some brick work will need building up at each side I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 PM " Shire350z" he's a builder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixy Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 ah cheers. I want to be able to drive my car into the middle of the garage so I can be an anorak and still polish it on rainy days and do other stuff. You'll understand that with your freaky tin collection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beavis Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Sounds like you need another rsj at the front of the garage above/behind the door Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 you'd have to check with plans to make sure the RSJ goes the full width and the centre brickwork isnt supporting anything!! if not it can be just taken down! then at the outer edge just built the brickwork into the existing RSJ and to match the new width of the doors by 'toothing' in to the existing brickwork Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixy Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share Posted April 4, 2008 I've only had a quick look at the RSJ and it seems to go the full width above the garage doors and above the centre pillar. I've got a guy coming next week to knock my kitchen wall down so I'll ask him what he thinks. Thanks for the tips doesn't sound to horrendous to do. Now just got to persuade my hubbie to let me have it done........................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev-the-Rev Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 I've only had a quick look at the RSJ and it seems to go the full width above the garage doors and above the centre pillar. I've got a guy coming next week to knock my kitchen wall down so I'll ask him what he thinks. Thanks for the tips doesn't sound to horrendous to do. Now just got to persuade my hubbie to let me have it done........................ I'm sure you will think of something Nixy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Its a shame Nixy, from what I remember the neighbours in the old house would have knocked it down for nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixy Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share Posted April 4, 2008 yeah true! Just have to catch mike out when he's in a good mood now! It could be a long wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebized Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 If you take a couple of pics showing where the RSJ rests on one of the end support walls and another where it 'rests' on the central pillar and let me have the width, height and span dimensions of the RSJ, I'll run it past a structural engineer friend of mine to see what he thinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 just show me the pics and ill tell ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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