Joining Two Timber Doors Together

I had an idea of joining two of those nice timber Corinthian doors (single lite) you can get from Bunnings for 150 ish - they are 2040 x 820 . I was thinking of ripping one stile on each door to half their respective widths then joining the two doors with a full length spline or some other means but wonder whether it would still want to jackknife a bit at the join since the the top and bottom rails are not continuous.

So maybe I rebate the top and bottom rail and put another spline there, effectively joining the two doors together better. Only reason I was considering this is the doors are quite inexpensive and would be an alright way of getting a wide slab that I could use in an external sliding door configuration. Four of these would span just over 6 metres. I have a 7 metre or so opening that I want to build some type of doors across. Have considered everything. Thought about using the Bunnings doors as multifolds but I'm not that big a fan of bifolding doors. So sliders would be good but 820 is too small and would need too many doors and hence way too wide a wall frame to accommodate them all.

Any thoughts or has anyone done something similar.


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