How To Make A Bifold Garage Door
Attach the plywood sheet to the back of the door.
How to make a bifold garage door. If you are looking for a cure for the boring conventional sectional door you have found it. Design the bi fold panels anyway you like with vertical or horizontal braces and paneling. You can either line up your hinges from the front or i found it easier to measure about 2 inches from the back of the post and line up to that. Bifold garage doors are a neat architectural feature that can make your garage stand out from the crowd.
A garage door needs rollers if it is going to be mounted on a horizontal or vertical track. The design is based on aviation style hangar doors. Apply upward pressure tilt the bottom of the door inward and allow the bottom knurled knob to drop into the serrated jaws of the jamb bracket. Apply wood glue on all top surfaces of the pieces of both your inner and outer frames.
Insert the smooth pin and the wheel assembly into the track at the same time. With the door in the 90 degrees open position start sliding scrap under the outside bottom of the door until your hinges are aligned. Install the hinges close to the ends of the panels allowing the door to bend and close in the direction you want it to. A short video documenting the creation of x2 10 x10 doors on our new pole barn shop.
The wheel should be on the inside with the pin nearest the wall. They are not better or worse than other more conventional types just different with their own advantages and disadvantages.