Garage and new border

Soooo, I haven't done anything with this yet!

Have been out and revisiting it today and noticed more rot in the two verticals either side of the doors so come what may, they have to be replaced. I've also pondered things like change of use permissions and some jobsworth shopping me for sealing it all up. The timber would also be £150-£200 whereas I currently have two doors that fill the hole quite nicely... (you can see where this is going perhaps)

New plan, STCWTW*, is to remove doors and replace uprights. Strip the doors and re-fit. This may be problematic as one is currently bowed outwards a bit. Add in a sill above the doors to prevent water ingress there and seal around edges after screwing the doors in place. They will look like doors but will not be doors.
Find a colour I like and paint it all. Do border thingy as planned.

*subject to change with the wind

 

Think it swelled and got clamped between top / bottom frame

 

I think it's the paint holding it together lol It's odd - the last (bottom) quarter, if that, of the uprights is a completely separate piece of wood. Same dimensions obviously but it must be a replacement; either that or a new type of frame construction I haven't seen.

Doors, although perhaps a bit warped and in need of TLC are in 'OK' condition. I won;t be spending any amount of undue effort on them. They'll either fit or they'll be replaced with my original plan... Or another one if one springs to mind!

 

Good tips Dave, thanks, but I'll be using the garage more for storage than anything so no need for sliders or anything really.
Just have to motivate myself into starting it now!

 

Right. The pics below show what I'm most concerned about. On both sides there is a piece of separate wood that has been replaced at some point (or has always been constructed like this). The main support, if it is indeed a support, where the door is attached to, is 4x3" so they must have removed the bottom hinge, chopped out and replaced the wood and reattached the hinge. The reason I question if it supports anything as the one on the right is more rot than wood and the one of the left is made up from 3 pieces of timer cobbled together to fit the hole.
I don't want to start this only for the roof to start sagging... Or worse, collapse on me lol
I don't see it as a real possibility as there is a great big lintel across the doorway, as you would expect, taking the load into the corner brick pillars.

 

Am also thinking it might look odd or a bodge...

 

Good point - I'd have forgotten those!

Yep, the door colour is a bit out of place. Black too dark and brown, well it's poo colour lol Dark red perhaps?

Rot on the left side is the lower replacement bit and upwards by about 4". Rot on the right is just the lower piece. Having said that I'll double check...