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.

Barn door construction. Barn doors that swing out need to be mounted on very large and strong hinges and sliding barn doors need to be properly balanced and hung on high quality hardware in order to work properly. Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width. Building or choosing a sliding barn doors can be as simple as a new or repurposed door slab or an elaborate custom designed door. 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.

This is going to be a two part series. The frame is built with two full height side pieces three cross rails and two diagonals. The barn door will hang a 1 2 to 1 off the floor and extend above the top of the door opening. Plan for a 2 day project.

Faqs about building a barn door. Building 4 x7 pine dutch door. Aug 12 2014 learn how to build wooden sliding barn doors and dutch doors. With a little creativity and imagination hard woods thick gauge metals and repurposed materials can come together harmoniously.

Barn doors should at minimum cover the door opening and extend a few inches past the door when fully open. Which let me tell you when you re twelve hours in to building an eight foot door and decide to search for barn door hardware to determine if it makes more sense to salvage the eighty year old track you re working with or buy new and google vomits 400 images of pristine kitchen barn doors and their impractically decorative hardware all over you you will say all the bad words. Decide on the door size. Using my sketch of the door i started by building the face frame of the door using the thicker 1 material.

14 steps to building your own sliding barn doors step 1. 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. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.

Build the door steps 2 10. To build one 4 x7 dutch door without window you would need to purchase enough of white pine or cedar boards and door hardware. See barn door images step by step instructions and free pdf prints. Step 1 building the face frame for barn door.

Thicker wood will make the door better at keeping heat in but will also make it heavier. Measure door opening width and height.