How To Build A Metal Barn Door

This is going to be a two part series.

How to build a metal barn door.

Choose the guide that works best for your door. Steel sliding doors will also be far cheaper than dutch doors on an a horse barn or animal confinement building. To begin building your metal barn doors place each 2x6x8 piece of lumber in place to form a large rectangle. Snap chalk line across header bottom chord of truss.

Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims. Steps for building metal barn doors 1. 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. Building door for a.

We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. 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. 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. Since these doors are heavy he easiest way to construct them is to build the door on the ground first and hang it second.

Owg step by step diy barn door plans. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. This gives you access plus control over your interior environment. If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work.

A distinct advantage of sliding barn doors is being able to leave them part way open for air flow and yet easily walk through. 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. 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. Measure your barn opening to determine the size of the doors.

If needed cut door verticals and or laterals to length door call out height and or width. Verticals are pre drilled for wood girts rather than steel failure to use color matched stitch screws provided to attach siding to frame. We hope this helps you build sliding barn door for your farm building. We re building sliding barn doors.

Using our step by step barn door plans we created every single barn door in the house for about 50 a piece. We have an awesome building project for you today. 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.

Follow along as i show you how i build a siding barn door. Door grid assembly assemble doors in a flat area. They are surprisingly simple to create. Kwik frame type sliding barn doors measure 5 1 2 up from the bottom of header at each jamb post.