Braced and ledged doors - do they settle?

[johnny2007]

I'm having to "up my game", this is garage number 4 and the wife is threatening divorce. But I need somewhere to keep the tools I've bought to build the garages.

Lucky you.
I've been looking to buy a garage for the past 4 years.
Unfortunately, here in London, people live in garages so there's none for sale.

 

[JohnD]

Here's a pic of my LBF M&T gate that sagged.

I put tension on it with the ratchet straps. It didn't shift during the hot dry summer, but once the weather changed, it lifted. I have now got it slightly above true, so that when I refit the braces and remove the straps, it will relax down until the braces are in compression enough to prevent it sagging,

The ring bolts will stay in case I need to do it again, I have it in mind to add a steel rod in tension to keep it square.

 

[Justin Passing]

D'as not a ledged and braced door.
The braces should be housed into the ledges, not one of the T & G strips (using a bent nail...)

That one isn't framed, but it shows the housings more clearly, than this one:

 

[JohnD]

The best way to make them is with the ledges slightly notched, so the braces fit tightly and cannot move sideways, and do not press on the stiles, which tends to open the joints. This is almost never done, I happened to see it in an old joinery apprentices manual...

Please teach me to suck eggs when you have a minute.

 

[Dereekoo]

D'as not a ledged and braced door.
The braces should be housed into the ledges, not one of the T & G strips (using a bent nail...)

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That one isn't framed, but it shows the housings more clearly, than this one:

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Thats nearly like mine but I design the braces in tension as opposed to compression

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

A member under tension is a tie. And that is absolutely not the right way round.

 

[Dereekoo]

A member under tension is a tie. And that is absolutely not the right way round.

It is if its designed in tension, simple structural design

 

[Justin Passing]

Please teach me to suck eggs when you have a minute.

I don't do eggs. I can point out a crap door like yours though, and not show a picture of one
The entire thread IS of couse, all about you.