Shed Door Maintenance

Started by JTA, December 30, 2013, 02:04:35 PM

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JTA

My shed door is pretty rotted and needs some fixing:

Front:


Back:


My battle plans are as follows:

1) Buy a piece of ply-wood and screw it to the back of the door where it's not rotted to create a new base in which to screw stuff.
2) Once my base is in place, I now have something I can attach new chunks of wood to. Chop the rotted wood off, add new wood. Screw the new wood into the plywood base and reattach the hinge.
3) Paint

This seems like the only way I can think of to repair this. Just thought I'd check to see if anyone here had some tricks up their sleeves before I proceed with the plan.

Thanks.

Solar

The only suggestion I would make is after you cut out the rot, coat it heavily with copper naphthenate.
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JTA

When my shed doors close there's a small gap between them. One of the doors has a long, flat, thin, metal bar screwed to the back of it that overhangs a bit, maybe 3-4 inches in width so that the gap is covered up.

Does anyone know what this is called? I can't get the old one off and need a new piece for my new shed door

JTA

Turns out it's just a "6' strip of aluminum". :)

walkstall

Quote from: JTA on May 05, 2014, 05:59:14 PM
Turns out it's just a "6' strip of aluminum". :)


Sounded like a add on as some make the door too small. 
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JTA

Quote from: walkstall on May 05, 2014, 06:37:33 PM

Sounded like a add on as some make the door too small.

Yeah, the doors that I replaced were probably sold with the shed. They were made out of particular board and had rotted pretty badly. There was a slight gap between the doors when you shut them. That metal piece was there to cover the ~1-2" gap. The old piece would not come off the old door. The screws were stripped and had been painted over a bunch of times. I found a piece of aluminum at lowes for 8 bucks that did the trick.