Fred Trout wrote:George, a few questions if that's ok.
Do you still plan to use carriage bolts through the existing door frame assembly as you originally intended or will the canvas hold all of it well enough ? I assume the canvas will not wrap all the way across the door edge to the far side but will stop at some point on the metal flashing inside edge.
How will you deal with the corner bead edge sticking into the doorway opening ? Is it too sharp an edge to leave raw ? Or will the rubber gasket cover it ?
I am trying to decide if I should embed wood in my door installation; it's hard to see how you plan to install the door lock mechanism without that.
Thanks for all your posts; they have been very helpful.
Fred, the carriage bolts where originally for bolting the inside door frame to the outside wall, which at that time was going to be wood. I needed a way to attach the wood and make a solid inside door frame. Since then I decided to do away with the wood and instead made the door frame the way I described by using two pieces of flashing and a dry wall beading edge. This creates a nice channel once pop riveted together and made for a pretty strong hinge attachment point. I still plan on reinforcing hinge and door latch areas more, but just have not got to that point yet.
I have not decided how the canvas is going to go on around the door opening yet. It probably will not wrap all the way around, but stop at the inside flange.
The flange is made of drywall beading and the way it is made it wraps onto itself so there is no sharp metal edge to cut you with. It is also quite strong and should hold up to a door pressing up against it just fine.