Shed bifold doors

Hi all,

Hoping for some advice on my project...I seem to have brain freeze from the cold weather and cannot make a decision on approach for building some bi-fold doors for my new shed.

I am building some bi-fold

doors for this structure:


The reason for the bi-fold doors as that the opening is about 3.5m which would make the doors take-up most of the garden when opening it. I also didnt want to make the doors narrow as the shed is not very deep, so this is more like a wardrobe/shelving shed - you wont be able to walk into it.

So I have successfully made some bifold doors for a smaller bike shed that I am also building, but they doors were a bit tricky and annoying in some respect - > getting everything lined up, and realising that the cladding spacing is not always 100% right owing to the structure not being 100% perfect in dimensions/right angles.

Question:- how would you go about building this?

I was thinking of building the door frames, in a single piece in situ across the shed, then installing the cladding to the frame leaving a few gaps for me to get in and out. Then, in theory I could cut the frame in the correct locations, installing the brackets on each cut. That should get me a perfect set of doors. Its a bit of a fiddly approach, but might reduce a bunch of pain afterwards?

Option 2 -> is to do what I did with the last one, but that would seem to need a tonne of precise measuring, and even then I am not fully sure that I would get exactly the finish that I want?

Would love to hear your ideas.

Jon

Other shed:

Bifolds would not make your access any easier unless you need to put something in there over 3m long.?
Couple of 100mm post down the front and 3x1100mm doors would be my choice .

foxhole said:

Bifolds would not make your access any easier unless you need to put something in there over 3m long.?
Couple of 100mm post down the front and 3x1100mm doors would be my choice .

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Good idea, but I will likely also be storing some long stretches of wood on the ceiling, so the posts would just get in the way I think.

Thinking this through, I think I will make two large doors first and then cut them through afterwards. If I use three cross supports, I can cut 1, add a hinge, then the next and so on until all the hinges are in place and the bi-fold just works.