How To Build 4 X 8 Barn Door With Plywood
Plywood makes a durable door for a shed storage building or utility locker.
How to build 4 x 8 barn door with plywood. Therefore our total width of the doors was 62 3 8. Cut a sheet of 3 4 plywood to the size of your door opening plus the trim. Since this will increase the overall thickness of the door so i thought i would use 1 2 plywood for the main door panel instead of 3 4. How to build a sliding barn door cut plywood to the size of the door frame.
Since we had two doors to build we cut each piece of plywood to 31 3 16. I want to put a mirror on the back of the door so i thought i would create a recess for the mirror by putting 1 4 plywood around it so the door is essentially flat with the mirror. This both looks better and provides more of a sound barrier between rooms. I found this one on amazon and it is heavy duty.
You want to cover the trim entirely when the barn door is closed. Hang the sliding barn door hardware. Just make sure that you have sufficient amount of 4 by 4s that you would be able to hang this hardware on otherwise the door will bring the whole hardware to the ground because it ends up to be like 50lbs.