RETROFIT YOUR DOOR

Our customers ask us to retrofit their existing quonset style buildings with a new bifold door to better utilize their building and take advantage of the reliability and durability of our bifold doors. Continue reading to learn how Schweiss can help you revitalize your existing building structure and enjoy the benefits of owning a bifold door.

Rubber

Top Flash

Steel Siding

Base Trim

Regular Freestanding Header Setup

Freestanding Header Is Above The Endwall

Freestanding Header Is To The Very Top Of Building

Bifold Door Attached To Each Freestanding Header Style

How a Quonset can be modified to hold a bifold door. Stay within the roof line.

Opening the entire endwall of your Quonset to gain width and height.

Mounting a bifold door on the sidewall of your Quonset.

Rubber

Top Flash

Steel Siding

Base Trim

Rubber

Weld

Building Roof

Horizontal Support

Lateral Bracing

Option 1
Side View

Option 2
Side View

Gap

Header is
sitting on the
face of
concrete curb

Header is
sitting on the
face of
concrete curb

Concrete Curb

Concrete Curb

Concrete Curb

Hold freestanding header
legs away from the face of
the building

Sheet this gap between
the freestanding header
and the Quonset building