Sliding Barn Door Construction

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.

Sliding barn door construction.

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. Closing in a pole barn with custom doors. Mark the height of the rails on the door and attach them with construction adhesive and nails. We re building sliding barn doors.

What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle. Building in place is the easiest way to build barn doors. To hang it you can follow the instructions found in the barn door hardware kit you choose. Same pattern as building sidewalls.

Once you have measured the opening add at least 2 inches to the width to ensure you are covering sides that don t have trim. 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. Of course once you have it constructed you will need to fill the holes sand and paint it and hang it. 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.

When sheeting door sheeting tucks between built in flashing and vertical member trim strip. Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door. Apply sheeting to door grid with color matched 12 x stitch screws at 9 o c. It s for good reason barn doors can add space saving benefits aesthetic detail and functionality to the interior of your home.

A sliding barn door creates more space by eliminating the need to accommodate a traditional swinging door. Lay door grid assembly on a flat surface with built in flashing and vertical member trim strip up not towards ground. A barn door in 30 minutes. Select the room and door you want to swap out for the barn wood door.

We have an awesome building project for you today. One of the latest trends in home design is the sliding barn door. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. It only required a total of 8 cuts.

Sliding barn style doors offer a functional solution similar to pocket doors but without the hassle that pocket doors typically come with. This is going to be a two part series. It s easy to see why.