Separate the panels of a steel garage door to create raised beds for your backyard.
Shed door out of fence panels.
The best part of this use is that there s no modification required.
Once they ve been broken apart the panels.
The plan is to make two 20 x 68 door panels.
Because this door is made from pickets it needs a solid wood base.
The cheapest would be recycled boards.
The cost of siding a shed with board and batten depends on the shed dimensions plus the widths of the planks used and the grade of lumber even 5 4 thick pressure treated deck boards cheaper than premium or select grade or fence boards could be used.
Build the doors using treated lumber and following figure b.
These panels also come in 4 x8 sizes and are perfect for easily siding your shed.
My preference is tongue and groove 9 16 x 6 x 8 real size 9 16 x 5 pine boards for the battens.
Make sure the seams in the top and bottom scrap pieces are aligned before nailing them into place.
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I buy them in bundles of 4 boards.
Assemble the doors with 6d nails driven at a slight angle so they don t poke through the opposite side.
T1 111 siding being used on a barn shed.
As you can see in the example pic above siding is started in the middle of the door opening.
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The door opening after it s been finished and trimmed is 40 x 68.
They re available from most lumber supply stores.
Use scrap siding panels for the door panels since the middle 1x4 hides the gap.
So measure the door opening and subtract 1 2.
Now this base needs to be smaller than the door opening 1 4 on all sides.
We are using a piece of plywood for this you probably cut this out if you added sheathing to the shed wall.