Sliding door bottom track

B R C

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Arable Farmer
I have a couple of sliding doors on twin tracks to put on the side of a shed about 9' high by 15' wide each. I need to work out the best way for the bottom of the doors to run. Full length channel track looks the best and most secure way? I haven't concreted outside yet so what would be the best way to fit the tracks. Setting them in wet concrete seems risky as need to get them dead level, straight and the right distance from shed edge. Pre fitting them with some sort of support/bracket seems the logical way but will be a lot of work! Any ideas/tips?
 

rob1

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Location
wiltshire
Why not put a piece of timber in the concrete when you pour it and then take it out to fit the track and use some cement and water mix round it when you have got the position right to fix it
 

Sussex Martin

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Location
Burham Kent
I have a couple of sliding doors on twin tracks to put on the side of a shed about 9' high by 15' wide each. I need to work out the best way for the bottom of the doors to run. Full length channel track looks the best and most secure way? I haven't concreted outside yet so what would be the best way to fit the tracks. Setting them in wet concrete seems risky as need to get them dead level, straight and the right distance from shed edge. Pre fitting them with some sort of support/bracket seems the logical way but will be a lot of work! Any ideas/tips?
Try F H Brundle for sliding door gear, it's where I got mine from.
To get it running right just weld some short lengths of road pin to it and use them to tap in and level it off, you should be able to slide the doors with the track in place, when satisfied concrete in, piece of cake.
I thought about guides but decided that track was the way to go.
 
As above.

We fitted doors first then bedded tracks onto dry mix with pins going down to help take weight and keep upright.

Once it had gone off then poured around and left a nice finish
 

fermerboy

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Location
Banffshire
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Heres what we do,
Round pipe, brackets welded to the bottom, which are concreted in, leaving pipe about half/two thirds exposed.
Door is always held no matter if open or shut or halfway.
 

David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
A sack truck wheel on an axle concreted in is better IMO, set so that it stops the door swinging out at the bottom when either open or closed.
 

B R C

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Arable Farmer
Thanks for replies, have decided to form track on underside of door. There will be a roller set in the concrete at the end of each door and I will fabricate a couple of slightly angled locating plates at the bottom of the slamming plate for the other ends.
 

Matt77

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Mixed Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Sorry to bring this back to life, came up via google, I've inherited a part finished build, on the list to do is the lower running track on three set's of sliding doors, two double set's spanning 20ft and a 10 footer single, all the tracks are there ready to go, door's are up swinging in the wind, concrete isn't done in front of each of these door's as they were waiting on the door's. I've been told by a few people in the know that the best way to do the tracks is as mentioned above, weld something to the tracks and then dry mix them in place and then float the final pour around them to leave a tidy finish, now it's got horses about the yard and plenty of water getting thrown about, will these tracks, that are sunken, not just cause a ball ache every winter, any other suggestions, will be used daily, they have drop pins in the middle for the doubles. Otherwise is it just a case of having some hot water on tap for the odd freeze up.
 

Welderloon

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Trade
Yes sunken tracks will be a ballache. they fill with debris, freeze when full of water, jam the door with debris.........avoid if possible, far better to have a simple step up inside the door (higher concrete level) with the doors either meeting to a fabricated centre keep or if the doubles run from one side only then staggered & stepped.
 

Matt77

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Mixed Farmer
Location
East Sussex
unfortunately the yard and the barns are the same floor level, nothing I can do to change that, there's only three small parts of concrete left to do, where the track is due to go.
 
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