Sliding Barn Door Construction Plans

This is what we did on these closet sliding barn doors and the double sliding barn door i built for the bathroom.

Sliding barn door construction plans.

The sliding barn door hardware and rail are made of 1 4 inch thick 2 inch wide flat bar cold rolled steel. Take off the existing door trim and re trim the door building the header into the trim. Because the door is hung from a track the door can be slid along the face of a wall into place and stored on the wall when not in use. 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.

What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle. Cut the hanger hardware to size. 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. Building door for a center aisle barn.

We have an awesome building project for you today. Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door. The instructions for how to build a sliding barn door included below are concise easy to follow and contain a full list of tools and materials that you ll need. The exact measurements and detailed diagrams can be downloaded in my free sliding barn door plans.

We re building sliding barn doors. Diy sliding barn door. If you ve investigated rustic barn doors you ve probably gotten sticker shock. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.

It s easy to see why. Here s how to save your money by taking the diy approach to building a barn door. Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn. A header for the door could be as simple as a 1 x 4 board attached with 3 1 2 screws into the studs in the wall.

This is going to be a two part series. A sliding door for your barn can provide easy access to the shop for large projects when other kinds of large doors are impractical. 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. See more ideas about diy barn door barn door barn doors sliding.