ᐅ Sliding Door on a Load-Bearing Interior Wall – How to Cover It?
Created on: 28 Jan 2024 21:06
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Hi.
Sliding door on a load-bearing interior wall – How to cover it so that it becomes a pocket door.
Current situation:
17.5 cm (7 inches) solid sand-lime brick wall with a rough opening of 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) wide by 2.14 m (7 ft) high above the finished floor level.
Desired situation:
A 2-leaf sliding door for the 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) wide door opening. The sliding door should be covered so that it functions as a pocket door running inside the wall. The construction should add as little thickness as possible to the wall, as there is no space for an additional 15 cm (6 inches).
There are ready-made drywall system solutions available. These include the sliding door frame on both sides so that it can be either drywalled or plastered and are correspondingly wide.
Any ideas?
Thanks. Steffen
Sliding door on a load-bearing interior wall – How to cover it so that it becomes a pocket door.
Current situation:
17.5 cm (7 inches) solid sand-lime brick wall with a rough opening of 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) wide by 2.14 m (7 ft) high above the finished floor level.
Desired situation:
A 2-leaf sliding door for the 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) wide door opening. The sliding door should be covered so that it functions as a pocket door running inside the wall. The construction should add as little thickness as possible to the wall, as there is no space for an additional 15 cm (6 inches).
There are ready-made drywall system solutions available. These include the sliding door frame on both sides so that it can be either drywalled or plastered and are correspondingly wide.
Any ideas?
Thanks. Steffen
Tolentino schrieb:
I would say they’re not in the way because there’s a cabinet on one side anyway, so it doesn’t really matter if a door panel leans against it. I don’t know what’s supposed to be on the other side, maybe another seating area or something? The other side is open. We’re considering whether to leave it completely empty and just hang a picture or to place a sideboard there. In earlier designs, we also planned to put the oven there, but kitchens are ridiculously expensive...
In our current apartment, we have a standard double door to the living room, 1.80 meters (6 feet) wide, and the door panels are quite large. But of course, based on the feedback we’ve received, the topic of the double door is coming back up again.
Attached is our own visualization of the kitchen. This is not a kitchen design program but a self-made rendering, so some details, like panels here and there, might not be entirely accurate. On the left is a three-part lift-and-slide door; it used to be door panels. On the right is a standard patio door.