Hangar floor and doors

gdbird · Post by **gdbird** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:19 pm

Advice sort on inexpensive flooring for a hangar and door runners
I have a 14 meter wide T hangar with old wood/metal tiles from an old suspended floor over plastic and some slabs where the plane rolls in. Tiles are going soggy and I am looking for suggestions.
Also I have lorry curtain on hanging rollers with a couple of sews straps that I can tighten but would like to get solid doors to stop the wind and weather underneath and increase security. I looked at buying door rollers for 4 hanging doors with the track but the quote was £2500 just for the ironmongery before I paid for any doors!
Suggestions appreciated

mike newall · Post by **mike newall** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:32 pm

Get insurance...............

Then 1lb of C4 or Semtex

macconnacher · Post by **macconnacher** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:24 am

Why not use old up and over garage doors, you should be able to get them from a company that fits new ones. There was a place just outside Toddington that seemed to have lots of scrap doors.

The hangers at Hinton in the Hedges built by Barry Plumb and Phil Cousins I am sure use this technique and in their previous hanger at Cranfield certainly did. Its worth a trip over to Hinton.

Nick Allen · Post by **Nick Allen** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:48 am

The "Hinton hangar" doors are corrugated steel sheets screwed onto metal frames -- I would have thought not a costly job to replicate (find a local welder who can knock up the frames) if you can't find something off the shelf. Our hangar there is quite wide, and each door comprises two sections hinged together in the middle.

Will Greenwood · Post by **Will Greenwood** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:04 pm

2 inch box steel made into 4 sections to cover door area, hinged and then fixing pins top and bottom, to make a bi-latteral folding door. To open undo top and bottom pins on first section, then fold close on the other door before removing pins and opening that section, to close reverse the process. These and be made relatively cheaply and cover in box profile, mine cover 40ft .

Bill McCarthy · Post by **Bill McCarthy** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:55 pm

For the floor lay down a polythene membrane and get some cold grindings from a road repair gang. Hire in a "whacker plate" to firm and level it - it will slowly amalgamate into quite a solid floor eventually.