Measure and mark the size of your door on your plywood.
Making a sliding barn door.
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.
First item of business was to break down all these boards.
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First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be.
Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.
Remember to add 2 inches to your door opening so your new barn door will cover the opening.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.
We started by cutting all the boards for the.
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The first thing i did was layout my 5 pieces of 1 6 boards side by side butted up against.
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Position the l shaped floor guide so that it contains the door in both its open and closed positions.
How to build a sliding barn door.
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.
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.
Install the other stop.
Let s set the frames off to.
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The opening was 24 5 x 96 5.
In today s tutorial i will be teaching you an awesome technique for making your very own professional quality rustic sliding barn door.
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Use your saw to cut the wood to size.
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With a helper hoist the door onto the track and slide it to the stop.
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The first thing i did was measure the door opening.
Tools needed for building a sliding barn door.
Roll the door on install a doorstop at one end.