How To Build Tongue And Groove Barn Door
Text photos and video by tom hintz.
How to build tongue and groove barn door. The next step to building the barn door was installing the rough sawn tongue and groove boards to the back of the face frame. Build the door as a blank and then cut it down on a table saw to make it fit the opening. The tongue and groove boards not only look great but add a tremendous amount of strength to the overall piece. 10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot.
With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years. Building tongue and groove doors is easier than you might think plus you do not need an array of fancy tools to do it. Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall. Depending on the wood used these simple to build doors can be used on projects ranging from shop.
Do you want to connect with other woodworkers. Here is what we used to make our barn door. The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall. Join our facebook group.
Start by building a door for a 36 inch opening with typical 4 by 96 inch tongue and groove wood. We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board. Since i wanted my door to be 37 inches wide to cover the opening and my 6 pieces of 1x6 inch tongue and groove which really measures 75 x 5 5 inches only measures to 33 inches when assembled 5 5 x 6 33 my 7th tongue and groove board needs to be cut down the middle using a table saw to two 2 inch pieces. We cut each 8 wide piece to our desired length 84 and then ran the end pieces through the table saw to remove the exposed tongue and the groove slots on each side of the door.
I also like this board because it has. In the next step the tongue and groove boards will cover the pocket screw holes so there s no need to fill them. Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door. Step 2 installing the tongue groove board to back of barn door.