Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.
Making a sliding barn door.
Tools needed for building a sliding barn door.
In today s tutorial i will be teaching you an awesome technique for making your very own professional quality rustic sliding barn door.
The opening was 24 5 x 96 5.
Diy sliding barn door.
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Install the other stop.
The first thing i did was measure the door opening.
Remember to add 2 inches to your door opening so your new barn door will cover the opening.
How to build a sliding barn door in 30 minutes materials and tools.
Measure and mark the size of your door on your plywood.
First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be.
In this tutorial i m going to show you step by step how i built a 36 sliding barn door from scratch for under 200.
How to build a sliding barn door.
Let s set the frames off to.
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Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch beyond the moldings of openings with trim.
To determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside dimensions of the door trim.
Position the l shaped floor guide so that it contains the door in both its open and closed positions.
The first thing i did was layout my 5 pieces of 1 6 boards side by side butted up against.
Once you have cut the boards to size measure the appearance board you just cut width wise so you can cut your top and bottom trim boards.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.
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First item of business was to break down all these boards.
Mark the screw locations drill pilot holes.
How to build a sliding barn door supplies needed for building a sliding barn door.
We started by cutting all the boards for the.
With a helper hoist the door onto the track and slide it to the stop.
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Use your saw to cut the wood to size.
Roll the door on install a doorstop at one end.