Hi,
Wondered if anybody had any bright ideas please. I’m absolutely sick of this back door.
We were hoping to knock down this shoebox and do an extension … even got as far as planning permission and full drawings …..but the interest rates and cost of building is just too much at the moment so trying to improve what we have without spending too much.
We have to walk through the long shitty shoebox and go out the back door / to get into the back garden… The door opens inwards and nearly blocks the passage. Often we like to eat outside and I am trying to carry trays of food around here. Also, I like to prop it open for small kids going in and out… So it’s just really annoying.
I was thinking about getting something like a door that folded in half of vertically and then stowed to one side, like a bifold but just made of timber (the total with being the same as a normal Door)… These only seem to exist as internal doors though. Maybe there’s a reason why they’re not a good idea as an external door? Ditto a single sliding door on a metal track.
I know we could have a door opening outwards, but then it would just be flap outside and would potentially be quite annoying.
Does anybody have any experience with unusual sorts of doors that might solve this issue, please? Thank you!
(the space in the photo looks wider than it is… there is an open door out of
shot that is often closed. It’s less than a foot of space to get through when door open)