Tin Shed Door Options

[AldeanFan]

I have an arrow tin shed in my backyard to keep yard tools and bikes in.
It works well for what it is, but the sliding doors freeze shut in the winter.
They run in a channel just above ground level which fills with ice, locking the door shut.
I’ve drilled holes in the channel to evacuate the water but once it starts freezing it fills up and turns in to one big ice cube.

id love to build a big wood framed shed on a cement pad but that’s not in the budget anytime soon.

Any suggestions on how to deal with these doors?

 

[kelpaso1]

Ya I had one of them and had the same problem. Not sure what the cure would be.

 

[tipsy]

Remove the doors and save them for new door skins. Wood 2 x 4 frame for the opening. Wood frames for doors using hinges and door skins previously saved. All wood is pressure treated. Cut away doorway bottom track if necessary.

 

[AldeanFan]

Remove the doors and save them for new door skins. Wood 2 x 4 frame for the opening. Wood frames for doors using hinges and door skins previously saved. All wood is pressure treated. Cut away doorway bottom track if necessary.

I think about doing this every winter, then in the spring when the snow melts and the doors work again, I forget about it until winter comes around again

 

[Renegade1LI]

rehang from above with a barn door kit.

 

[AldeanFan]

I thought of doing that but there would be nothing holding the bottom of the doors and animals could just push their way in.

 

[Daniel Dudley]

I used to have a 16 inch piece of plywood I would lay in front of the bottom of a certain door to shield it. Don't know if that would help you,

 

[nadogail]

Drill weep holes in the door track drain the water out.

 

[The Cobbler]

^^^ if you read OP's first post, he's already done that .
I imagine you're talking the run of the mill steel corrugated sheds
I would use the existing doors to use as skins and make some hinged outswing doors as already suggested. but I would only use 1x not 2x . maybe plywood .

 

[mikedodge]

I used to have a 16 inch piece of plywood I would lay in front of the bottom of a certain door to shield it. Don't know if that would help you,

I do that do that with strips of 6 or 8" wood and it's worked. I haven't had that problem with my newer shed.

 

[mogandave]

Flashing on the bottom of the door?

 

[AldeanFan]

I don’t think there is a way to keep the water out, once the freeze/thaw cycle starts it’s a big ice cube