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Repurposing steel roller door for garage

 
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Can anyone brainstorm some uses for steel roller door from garage. Not a sectional or panel lift.
We have loads getting thrown away and I think there must be some kind of home reuse rather than just sending off to metal scrappers.
The metal is one long sheet but really flexible dur to the design to be used to roll up.

I'm starting out on a empty 1acre. New to this forum, so please repost if I'm in the wrong section.

 
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Cut or separate it into sheets then roll those up into cylinders & rivet the ends together. You may want to crimp the ends inward so they are not so sharp and bam you got some metal raised beds for compost or planting.
 
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Welcome to Permies!

The obvious would be reuse as a garage door in a new location. It would be fantastic secure storage shed doors, since that's the original design intent. Maybe they could be resold, if they are complete units? (money for something else...)

A row of them side-by-side mounted to posts, could make for a fence that could be opened in sections... mounted upside-down, this could be a variable height fence/screen/privacy fence. They could be mounted vertically as well, the roll would be a "post" and the panel would extend to the next "post", or two could meet in the middle of a wider opening/driveway.

If it is a solid panel, not linked segments, the panels could be re-used as roofing material or as siding material, for almost anything...

They could mount horizontally overhead to make a retractable awning/roof, making a carport, or a "shed" n the side of a barn.
 
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I am always looking for ways to repurpose items.

I am not sure what these actually are so my ideas may or may not work so here it is:

Can one end be tapered so that these are like big nails?  Then used for tent stakes?  If that is possible maybe they could be sold to places that sell tents.  Making you some coins.

I am looking forward to other ideas.
 
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Lyndel, some pictures would be really helpful! Kenneth Elwell covered my initial thought - roofing for all sorts of small projects like chicken coops, potting sheds, out-houses to name three that would be on my hit list. Actually as siding on some of the same, it might do, but metal can hold dampness in and tends to change temperature wildly (too hot if the sun hits it, cools fast at night) so that would effect the plans. My mother had steel siding on her house with *really* good insulation under it and it was old when the bought the house in 1982 and is still going strong for my sister who now lives in the house.

Is the metal shiny on one side? Or could it be? If so, I could also think of cutting it up for various solar projects like a solar food cooker or batch water heater.

If the material is flexible enough to roll, about what is it's thickness in mm? Cut thin could it be bent and used for brackets for reinforcing wooden projects? I have a screen door on a chicken run which I used bits of sheet metal to strengthen the corners of the wooden frame for example.

I'm really glad you're trying to find alternatives to scrap metal, as a lot of that gets sent overseas (with the transportation pollution that entails) with North America loosing the embodied energy it represents!
 
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So many replies so quickly. Thanks everyone so far.




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I'm hoping the image gives enough detail. For most of the ideas so far, I'm hearing some kind of structure to either reuse as it is, a doorway. Or put a sturdy frame around it to hold it in place a new stop it bending.

If I was to use for veggie beds, compost bays,, do you think there will be problems with sudden temperature changes?
 
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Probably not. Especially if it's one of the insulated ones, but I'm not sure it would really make a difference.
 
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