Sliding Barn Door Construction

Remove the door you are planning to replace and measure the door opening to determine your door size and how much appearance board you will need.

Sliding barn door construction.

Same pattern as building sidewalls. It s easy to see why. Apply sheeting to door grid with color matched 12 x stitch screws at 9 o c. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.

Sliding barn style doors offer a functional solution similar to pocket doors but without the hassle that pocket doors typically come with. The best door system for a center aisle barn is a split slider double sliding door which is hung on rollers trolleys and slides on a track. We re building sliding barn doors. Because the nails protruded slightly from the opposite side we shortened them a bit by holding them with locking pliers and grinding off the tips on a bench grinder.

Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door. Of course once you have it constructed you will need to fill the holes sand and paint it and hang it. Mark the height of the rails on the door and attach them with construction adhesive and nails. The first sharing how to build the barn door and the second will be talking about barn door hardware and installation in our attic family room.

It s for good reason barn doors can add space saving benefits aesthetic detail and functionality to the interior of your home. Since the fasteners show we decided to use 1 1 2 in. To hang it you can follow the instructions found in the barn door hardware kit you choose. Lay door grid assembly on a flat surface with built in flashing and vertical member trim strip up not towards ground.

Select the room and door you want to swap out for the barn wood door. We have an awesome building project for you today. Diy sliding barn door hardware is available in all manner of styles and budgets and the door options are limitless from salvage finds to original diy creations like this one a mix of pallet wood and common cedar. Sliding barn style doors are excellent for large openings where a swing style door might prevent furniture placement.

This is going to be a two part series. A barn door in 30 minutes. Closing in a pole barn with custom doors. A sliding barn door creates more space by eliminating the need to accommodate a traditional swinging door.

What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle. One of the latest trends in home design is the sliding barn door. It only required a total of 8 cuts.