How To Build Tin Barn Doors
It took about an hour or two to build each doors with just a few basic tools and lumber found that can be found at any standard lumber store.
How to build tin barn doors. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. We re building sliding barn doors. A distinct advantage of sliding barn doors is being able to leave them part way open for air flow and yet easily walk through. Steel sliding doors will also be far cheaper than dutch doors on an a horse barn or animal confinement building.
They are surprisingly simple to create. Owg step by step diy barn door plans. 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. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers.
Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims. Choose the guide that works best for your door. Measure your barn opening to determine the size of the doors. We have an awesome building project for you today.
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. 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. This is going to be a two part series. If needed you can substitute 1x10 t g boards for 1x8 1x12 or even 2x6 or 2x8 boards.
Since these doors are heavy he easiest way to construct them is to build the door on the ground first and hang it second. If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work. Barn tracking and hardware kits have come a long way in the last few years. To begin building your metal barn doors place each 2x6x8 piece of lumber in place to form a large rectangle.
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.