How to attach a wooden door to a tin shed?

[Curiousnewbie]

[EricL]

Hello @Curiousnewbie 

Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community. It's sensational thar you join us, and thanks for sharing your question about attaching a door to your shed.

That is a bit of a challenge, technically a frame would have to be built inside your shed and anchored to the concrete floor in order to accommodate the door jamb of the door. I suppose you could just use angle brackets to attach the door frame to the shed, but the problem is that the shed walls were not designed to hold that much weight. It would probably rattle and damage the shed wall in the process.   

Let me call on our experienced members @Dave-1 and @Nailbag for their recommendations.

If you have any other questions we can help with, please let us know.

Eric

[Dave-1]

Good morning @Curiousnewbie 

My thoughts follow along @EricL's I would frame the rear side of the doorway and attach the timber to the concrete slab with right angled brackets. You could frame up the whole shed on the inside but would probarly loose a bunch of space. I would be concerned that the added weight of a door would tear the metel shed as is.

If you are trying to make it more secure then maybe some square metal tube bracing the door diagonally would also work.

Dave

[Nailbag]

Hi @Curiousnewbie 

As both @EricL and @Dave-1 have mentioned, a wooden door may add too much weight for the lightweight frame. The best and most durable timber and also very cheap, would be to simply use treated pine fence palings fixed to 75mm x 16mm treated pine battens made up as the frame.

That aside, can I ask why you want to replace the metal door with a wooden one?

Nailbag

[Curiousnewbie]

Well we don’t need the shed as a wood shed anymore, so I’d love to convert it into a cute little potting shed. I don’t know how tricky it would be to turn this beat up shed into anything pretty, but I’ll be putting raised garden beds next to it and would like to end up having a sitting area out the front. I don’t really know where to start! Any ideas welcome!

[Dave-1]

Morning @Curiousnewbie 

That will be an interesting project. 

With the raised beds I would give them a little space off your wall becuase of the concrete slab you have. Just to stop water seeping down the raised beds and tehn onto the slab.

Things to dress up your shed -

- The plastic styled lattice/privacy screens could help in vines ect growing up the side of the shed.

- A curved pathway to the shed itself.

- Maybe a fruit tree or two in the raised garden near the shed to grow and give shade.

- I did think of a window but then we are back to the structual intergrity of teh shed itself. So thats a no.

- Install a tap out near your shed for ease  of watering.

- A small watertank?

Dave