How To Build An Outdoor Barn Door
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.
How to build an outdoor barn door. Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn door and figure out what door setup works best. Barn doors that swing out need to be mounted on very large and strong hinges and sliding barn doors need to be properly balanced and hung on high quality hardware in order to work properly. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims.
Also show you how to install it. If needed you can substitute 1x10 t g boards for 1x8 1x12 or even 2x6 or 2x8 boards. We re building sliding barn doors. 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.
If you want to cover the opening with one door you ll need an area on one side of the opening that s wide enough for the door. 14 steps to building your. This includes the hardware and track. Follow along as i show you how i build a siding barn door.
This is going to be a two part series. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. We have an awesome building project for you today. We started by laying out the base of the door and then we played with different frame layouts until we decided on this cross style.
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. We chose our size because we wanted to have our barn door completely cover the door trim when closed. Thicker wood will make the door better at keeping heat in but will also make it heavier.