16 Metal Sliding Barn Door Plans

The sliding barn door hardware and rail are made of 1 4 inch thick 2 inch wide flat bar cold rolled steel.
16 metal sliding barn door plans. Cut the hanger hardware to size. Easelife 16 ft double door sliding barn door hardware kit heavy duty ultra hard sturdy easy install slide smoothly quietly fit double 48 wide door 16ft track double door kit 4 6 out of 5 stars 513 159 99 159. Anchor the metal barn door rail directly into the studs on the wall. This is what we did on these closet sliding barn doors and the double sliding barn door i built for the bathroom.
The studs and rail holes don t always line up well. Take off the existing door trim and re trim the door building the header into the trim. This is the last day of tutorials in our barn door week and it s a good one. The best door system for a center aisle barn is a split slider double sliding door which is hung on rollers trolleys and slides on a track.
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. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. Tomorrow we will share a round up of a few of our favorite diy barn doors. Building door for a center aisle barn.
What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle. Make diy barn door hardware.