For the hardware we used an 8 foot track and then 3 they come in sets of 2 wheels and hardware.
Large barn door construction.
Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide.
This will allow you to attach the wheels that run in the sliding door track to the crosspiece rather than to the ends of the 1 inch boards.
We re building sliding barn doors.
Designed to cover a 30 inch wide opening with 4 inch casing on either side this door measures 38 inches wide by 2 inches thick by 83 inches tall.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
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.
The simplest guide is an l shaped metal bracket that mounts to the floor and fits into a groove cut in the bottom of the door.
The 25ft wide by almost 16ft tall barn shop doors are completed.
The doors are built out of.
This is going to be a two part series.
I used the same hardware from my other barn door.
Step 2 attach the top 2x6 crosspiece right at the top end of the door.
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.
If you are going to have the door be all the way open you have to have a longer track so like 12 feet long meaning your beam will have to be longer too.
If needed you can substitute 1x10 t g boards for 1x8 1x12 or even 2x6 or 2x8 boards.
On the exterior surface he wanted to use 5 8 inch t1 11 plywood siding bordering the t1 11 with red cedar to match the barn s western red cedar trim.
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We chose 2 inch thick rigid polyiso insulation r 14 for the cores of the new doors.
Build a sliding barn door in the same way as you would build a swinging barn door with the following exception.
Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims.
If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.
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.