Long term garage 'modification' - Recent update...

Is'nt it amazing, when I posted this about understanding wife, I said to Nicola I hoped I didnt miss anything is skim reading the thread again.

Been there, lost the T-shirt, the house and most of the furniture, on second marraige with Nicola, but 3rd long term relationship.

Lets hope it works for me this time.

good to see work resuming on this... will it be finished befopre the Olypmic Village?

Well, I've finally had a couple of hours to work on the garage, and I've made my first doorframe Mortise and tenon in each corner, allied with some glue and it's good and sturdy. Happy days!



Granted it's missing a few essentials such as the stops for the door and rebate for the lock etc. but they will be done when the door is made.

I'm going to let it set in position overnight, then take it back out, paint it with clear wood preserver (which takes 5 days to fully dry apparently!), then I'll see about fixing it in, painting it and sealing it.

It's another step in the right direction, and my first bit of carpentry too

Great to see you're nearly there. Hope to start on mine this spring/summer. Been busy at work recently so a bit more cash will be available.

Well, another few weeks have passed and there's a little more progress!

I had a couple of spare days to take off from work, so as well as wallpapering a ceiling (on my own... that was fun!), I thought I'd have a bash at making a door.

And so I did! Made the outer 'frame' first using a similar technique to the frame, except I did a 'blind' mortise on these - I reasoned that every joint that was open to the elements was a risk, and confirmed this by looking at my own exterior and interior doors in the house (exterior doors have blind mortise and tenon joints, interior doors have full-width mortises/tenons). I did the mortising with the aide of a flat 13mm bit in my pillar drill and a hammer and *very* sharp chisel

I then routed out a ledge for the T+G infill pieces to sit on and hey presto, we have this :



Then, when all glued together, pretty damned solid and resting in place:



Despite how solid the doors already are, I'm still going to brace the back as I've already bought the wood to do it. I'm also going to drill and dowel the corner joints (from the back, so it's invisible from the front) to prevent any future slippage/twistage.

Overall I'm pretty pleased with them, and to say it's the first 'proper' woodworking I've ever done I've done a good job.

proper job with the door, well done

Just read right through, great work mate, a real credit to you. Also a massive bonus should you ever need to sell up

Get power in and get working

What are you planning for the big door? Are you going to make similar wooden doors or going for an up and over type?

I need to make a new set of doors for my garage as the existing ones are rotten in places.

Massively impressed, definately consider a dedicated alarm system and secure it as best you can.

Window bars are good, one trick I know of is to bolt the bars over the window, then add blobs of weld to all the faces of the bolts. Means you cant get sockets on it to remove them without grinding the weld blobs off.