Question:
I have survived three 1 - 0 defeats and have finally received local approval to
add a garage to my house. The garage will be 14' x 28'. My plan is to divide
the end 10' for a workshop. This area will be more of den for clean tinkering
than a workshop. I will keep the dust making equipment in the garage portion.
I want the divider between the two areas to be easily moved out of the way for
those times I may need the full size for either a larger workshop or for a
larger garage
My thoughts are to use a folding garage door to separate the areas. The kind
that would run on an overhead track and fold in two sections to each side. By
folding to the side, I would get an opening almost as wide as the garage and
lose only a small amount of floor space to the door themselve. The door panels
would have lots of windows in them and be a pleasant divider. Almost like big
french doors.
I could use an accordian door, but I don't think it would be sturdy enough and
wouldn't have windows. A sectional overhead door is probably my last resort,
but it strikes me as ugly, not contributing to the warm workshop I envision.
I have not been able to find a source for anything remotely resembling garage
doors like this although there are many of them hung on very old garages in my
home town. Can anyone suggest a source for such doors, or offer any other
thoughts?
Answer:
-I have a couple of ideas. perhaps if those cubicle dividers are available
cheap at the used office furniture place you could use those and then hang
panels (perhaps even cloth with weights on the bottom) from hooks in the
ceiling to meet the top of the dividers. By doing it this way, you could
get flexibility real cheap.
You could also build your own dividers using masonite, or even sheet rock in
a frame and use some loose but hinges to couple the frames.
-How about a sectional overhead garage door (the kind that rolls up,
guided by tracks, and stows horizontally)? They close quite tightly and
take up no wall space.
