Sliding internal door?

From google "sliding door gear":

HTH

Tim

I don't know what you mean by "bulk out one side of the wall". I have made a sliding door that fits entirely within the wall. At the door opening I have two vertical pieces of 1=BD" angle steel with horizontal pieces of 4"x1" screwed to them, to attach the wallboard to on each side. The rollers and track are commercially available.

sliding wardrobe door mechas are not hard to find. Just need a decent one with bottom as well as top restraint.

NT

Anna

re sliding door gear.

yeah but why pick them. More garage door mecha failures than all the others combined.

NT

i fitted one at work last tuesday fitted the track to the ceiling---it should be level so some 1mm packers are well handy there was also provision for fixing to the wall....easier if you can do it this way the bottom guide ran in a groove which i routered in the bottom of the door after it was trimmed to length

a couple of things i would point out you dont need to run this inside a double wall or partition if you buy a door an inch or so wider than the opening you can run it against the existing arcs and skirting and mount the stops appropriately btw the kit i used had puny stops so if you use a heavy door watch out for this and you may have to make a pelmet to hide the mechanism

also i would drop a plumb bob down both legs of the door frame before you start just in case they are badly in wind

hth

breeze

I came across these a while ago, and am considering fitting one soon

Will do, though decision is still a week or two away ...

I'd be interested in hearing about it, too - we're looking into replacing an inward-opening bathroom door.

Sounds like there's about four of us here (plus any lurkers) all planning refurbishing small bathrooms this month :-)

I finished my small "bathroom" some years ago. In it is a flush toilet and a handbasin with cupboard underneath. It measures 26" x 65", so that's why I needed a door that slid inside the wall. Otherwise the open door would touch the wall on the other side of the room, or the other side of the passage outside if it opened the other way. I have a lot of tiles that I wanted to put on the wall, but I was worried about making the room half an inch narrower by putting tiles on the wall. My mother wouldn't be able to get in the room :)

Mine will have to wait until other tasks are done. The fact that these doors do an electric open/close make them look even better. Take some photos if you do get and install one.

Adam