14 steps to building your.
16 metal sliding barn door plans.
This is what we did on these closet sliding barn doors and the double sliding barn door i built for the bathroom.
The exact measurements and detailed diagrams can be downloaded in my free sliding barn door plans.
Anchor the metal barn door rail directly into the studs on the wall.
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The studs and rail holes don t always line up well.
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.
Building door for a center aisle barn.
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.
Take off the existing door trim and re trim the door building the header into the trim.
The sliding barn door hardware and rail are made of 1 4 inch thick 2 inch wide flat bar cold rolled steel.
Cut the hanger hardware to size.
Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle.