Replacing garage door with a wooden wall.

Hello all,

My up and over garage door is knackered and apparently unrepairable. I have no need for an actual garage door, it’s too narrow for a modern car and we’ll probably convert it into bike store/utility room – but this is likely 5 years away. Thus I don’t really want to spend £500 on a replacement door.

Properly bricking up would be too expensive currently due to needing foundations etc, but I’m wondering about replacing it with a stud wall with a single door in. Is this idea crazy?

No. I replaced mine with a £50 sliding patio door off Facebook. About 3 hours work and it’s spot on and more secure than the old up and over one.

Stud wall with a door.

What are you storing in the garage?

How secure do you think your proposal will be?

Just brick it up. You dig the foundation – its only a trench and fill it with concrete. Hire a local brickie.

Job jobbed.

Remove old garage door and frame. Use some frame fixers to attach 4×2 inside the opening. Get an external door and frame (architectural salvage) and build a stud wall. Exterior ply on outside. Insulate. Put a DPC under threshold to prevent damp.

A wooden wall?

I am on the fence about this

3×2 frame insulation and osb outer skin clad in membrane and poly tongue n groove

Inner is 22mm flooring

My doors a big horman personal door.

Miles better

Don’t planning and building regs get funny about this?

Why?

Because you are changing the purpose of a building and adding fenestration i think.

Edit: in laws were refused permission to brick in an integral garage and had to keep the garage door, walling behind it.

They would likely to have something to say if the facade of your house had a whopping great bit of ply in it….. if nothing else I’m sure the neighbours would. Even t+g cladding would look better than ply unless building site is the look your going for.

But generally no
I had the planning guy round Monday up here in Scotland. Couldn’t give two hoots my garage door is now a double patio door nor that my shed door is now a window……

Just cared about the structural things.

Only issue with planning is if there was a stipulation on the number of parking spaces and the garage is one of them. I’d put up the stud work, face it with 18mm ply and shiplap it or tongue and groove, 50 or 100m void, fill with insulation, 9mm inner play, probaly a lot more secure and warmer than your average garage door. Might be cheaper to brick it up, foundations don’t need to be deep, it’s not load bearing.

Can you get into the house through the garage?

If so, maybe take the up and over door off the mechanism, build a frame and fasten it permanently to the frame from the inside.

Will still look like the garage without the hassle of a broken door.

Having said that, what sort of door is it as the basic design hasn’t changed in years and there isn’t much in them that can’t be fixed / replaced a lot cheaper than taking it out completely.

Just cared about the structural things.

But not the extra door that wasn’t on original plans? 😁