Hi All,
We decided to start doing some work in the house and put a bifold door facing the garden.
I've made a very rough sketch of what we are aiming to do. The indoor wall is about 3m wide, structure is cavity walls.
The idea is to remove as much of the wall as possible and install support before fixing the bifold doors (made to measure). This part of the house does not have an another floor above it except a "balcony" and ceiling is made up of concrete slabs.
I've spoken to two SE and both seem keen to provide calculation for goal post/picture frame type of structures but they cannot commit on the size of the two support on each side which means I might be left with a return bigger than I expect (and additional cost to design and install these).
Seperately the two builders who came to give quotes both suggested that we should be able to put catnic for cavity wall and still have a very small return in the corner.
In your experience do you think that a goal post/frame will be small enough to be concealed in the walls and allow the bifold to be the full width of the room?
Or would a simple catnic allow for a small return and how much of a return do we need to keep?
Thanks for your advice
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We decided to start doing some work in the house and put a bifold door facing the garden.
I've made a very rough sketch of what we are aiming to do. The indoor wall is about 3m wide, structure is cavity walls.
The idea is to remove as much of the wall as possible and install support before fixing the bifold doors (made to measure). This part of the house does not have an another floor above it except a "balcony" and ceiling is made up of concrete slabs.
I've spoken to two SE and both seem keen to provide calculation for goal post/picture frame type of structures but they cannot commit on the size of the two support on each side which means I might be left with a return bigger than I expect (and additional cost to design and install these).
Seperately the two builders who came to give quotes both suggested that we should be able to put catnic for cavity wall and still have a very small return in the corner.
In your experience do you think that a goal post/frame will be small enough to be concealed in the walls and allow the bifold to be the full width of the room?
Or would a simple catnic allow for a small return and how much of a return do we need to keep?
Thanks for your advice
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