These guys have alot of track options: http://barndoorhardware.com/barn_door_hardware.htm
-Norm
These guys have alot of track options: http://barndoorhardware.com/barn_door_hardware.htm
-Norm
Thanks, Chuck!
Jamie, I don't have the link for the manufacture with me at the moment, but I ordered it through my local ACE hardware store. They are the only ones that could get it. I had to go with 36" radius because they don't make 24" anymore. It wasn't cheap, if I remember right, it retailed for over $200 each. The guy I ordered it through knocked it down to $165 and then after it got lost in shipment he knocked it down to $145. Needless to say, he has a customer for life!!!
Off the top of my head I think the hardware (straight rails, curved rails, hangers, rollers, bolts, 2x2 angle iron, misc stuff) ran $500-$600. The door/wall, maybe another $100 by the time I get the locking hardware and handles.
An insulated, good quality overhead door would have cost me at least that, and well over a thousand for a roll up w/insulation. Neither one of those would give me the R-value and sound deadening of this one. Then of course there's the self satisfaction of conceptualizing, designing and building something like this.
Found ithe link for the curved rail. Note: The online catalog is outdated, they only carry the 36" not the 24".
http://www.natman.com/prodinfo_itemd...=1245&item=487
I'm just getting started building my shop and the people who provided my plans also designed a bi-fold door arrangement. It looks like a slider when closed but operates just like a heavy duty version of a pair of closet doors. Ill be able to seal against the insulated doors when they close and there is no sliding contact to wear or distort the seals. They are hinged at either side of the opening using regular door hinges and suspended on the ends with rolling track like you'd use for a slider. I can't say how well they work in the real world yet but in my make believe shop, they work great.
Jim
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I found hardware that a friend of a friend has on his metal buliding doors, sliding barn door type. The hardware is a "Cam Action Jamb Latch, Zinc, For Use On 1-1/2" Or 3-1/2" Thick Door Frames. Made by NATIONAL MFG. CO. Haven't seen it yet but the adjustable rods are described by my pal to be about 3/8" which should be stout enough. There are several places on the web selling them - best price I saw was at:
http://www.idealtruevalue.com/servlet/Categories
Interesting. Anybody heard of anyone using pocket doors? It would seem to me they could solve the sealing problem, at least around the sides and top, and take up less space than the (very clever) curved track doors pictured here.
Kirk
They hang from an overhead track on rollers.
My Dad had a place in Oregon that had these type doors on the big shop.
Yeah, they leaked some air, but not a huge amount. When shut, a hook and eye was used to pull them close to the opening and hold them there.
I've always admired these simple hung doors rolling on their substantial rails.
And if they "slide", you better be lubing your wheels bearings, BobbO!
I have a high quality paneled roll up door on my garage shop and it seals almost too tight. But I don't have the space for hung doors in the first place anyway.
james, do you have a photo of those bifold doors?
I had the same leak problem with my door. I had some old track rollers that fit perfectly inside some 2x2x16ga. tubing. With a straight edge and a plasma cutter I cut the groove. To solve the leak problem I bent up some break metal. Started it as flashing and bent it down and around over the sliding door track. Works great. Here is a before shot.
And here is an after shot.
Last edited by Kent E. Matthew; 12-21-2008 at 2:37 PM.
Todd,
Unfortunately, the weather here hasn't cooperated so all I have to show on my shop build is a real nice, flat muddy spot. The drawings look nice but I can't say how they'll work and what I'll need to do to get them more weather-tight than a "normal" barn. I'll post pics when and if the rain stops long enough to get the foundation done.
Jim
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Growing up is entirely optional.
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I have a similar setup on my kiln. I have a 10' x 24' 600 lb door that rests on the floor of the kiln. I use 2 winches to pick it up and then roll it away on 2 extra heavy duty, 4 roller trolleys. I used 3/4" auto heater hose for the gasket. On both sides and the top I pull it in with cam latches that are normally used on pole barn sliding doors.
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