How To Construct A Barn Door

Remove the door you are planning to replace and measure the door opening to determine your door size and how much appearance board you will need.

How to construct a barn door.

Select the room and door you want to swap out for the barn wood door. Mark a straight line using a level where the sliding barn door rail will attach to the header. On the back side if the door use locking nuts to secure the steel. Use a 2 inch circular drill bit to cut two 4 inch wheels for each side of the door.

Tools needed for building a sliding barn door. So what i suggest is sticking to locally available species of wood. Fasten the left and right wheels to the door with 1inch wide steel. Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch.

If needed you can substitute 1x10 t g boards for 1x8 1x12 or even 2x6 or 2x8 boards. Choose your barn door hardware before. First item of business was to break down all these boards. Install the other stop.

Measure the opening to determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside dimensions of the. You can countersink the nuts in the back if you want them flush. Mark and drill the first and last pilot hole positions by holding the metal rail so the line is centered in the screw. Let s set the frames off to.

Roll the door on install a doorstop at one end. Next drive a 2 3 screw into the first pilot hole mark and. 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 simplest way to build a door is to use 1x10 t g barn siding for the door and regular straight edge 1x10 barn siding for trims and cross bucks.

Join our facebook group. How to build a sliding barn door supplies needed for building a sliding barn door. For my barn door i chose locally available rough sawn white pine. Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims.

In most cases they are built from rough sawn lumber that s similar to the barn boards used to build the barn. I marked mine in the. If you are building a barn with wooden siding put nicest boards aside for doors trims. Position the l shaped floor guide so that it contains the door in both its open and closed positions.

Mark the screw locations drill pilot holes. Barn doors are typically built from locally available materials. Do you want to connect with other woodworkers.