This is the door guide that came with our barn door hardware kit.
How to close the gap on barn doors.
Barn doors don t lie flush with the door opening.
You can modify a door stop included to cover the gap between rails if you prefer a seamless look.
This step may not be included in your hardware instructions if you bought them separately.
Screw a board to the bottom of the door you will have to remove the door.
Our front door entry is barndoors leading to a vestibule with french doors.
A home owner from albemarle nc says.
You can narrow the gap but you won t have true privacy or sound proofing with a barn door period.
This means that if sound separation or privacy is a major goal barn doors with their gap might not be the best choice.
If it s more than 1 4 inch or greater at the top or bottom cut and attach a wood shim to close up the gap.
It essentially serves a similar purpose but whereas your door track is what your door hangs from the door guide stabilizes the bottom.
This is the ugly stepsister to that big beautiful door track hardware that you have at the top of your door.
Best my contractor and i can guess i will have 1 2 gap when the doors are closed or pulled together the space has to be there to.
You will have to remove the door for this process to be more accessible.
Install the soft close mechanisms before hanging the door slabs.
Install the soft close mechanisms before hanging the door slabs.
Glue nail some flat molding wood with a 1 4 overlap on the door to cover the gap.
Id leave it alone.
You can either glue or nail a flat molding on the bottom of the door.
Rather they hover over the opening creating gaps.
Since the barn door is not closing into a jamb i can t imagine the sound insulation is as effective.
Close the barn door and notice how tightness and uniformity of the gap.
Or you can get a track joiner if you want the doors to be able to slide to either side.
The gap in the middle of the doors when closed.
If you have a gap in the bottom of the barn door you can screw a board to the bottom of the door.
You can modify a door stop included to cover the gap between rails if you prefer a seamless look.
And i have a barn door to my ba from our mbr.
Or you can get a track joiner if you want the doors to be able to slide to either side.
This step may not be included in your hardware instructions if you bought them separately.
Get the convenience of a sliding door without the barn door look.
I am in the process of purchasing barn door hardware and will be installing doors on this hardware.
Sliding barn door hardware closing the clearance gap.