Building Sliding Barn Doors For Shed
Building door for a center aisle barn.
Building sliding barn doors for shed. Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room. What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle. But if you want a door that s easy to build and install easy to operate and doesn t take up much space then it s hard to beat sliding doors. If you re worried about bugs or small creatures getting into the shed consider hinged doors instead.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build. He uses kreg concealed fastening system for strong wood to wood joints and great hidden fastener end result. This is going to be a two part series.
This video is a great shed door walk through guide which shows you the process of building amazingly looking doors from cutting the boards to hanging them to his gorgeous shed. The other problem with sliding doors is that they re trickier to seal. Good guide if the situation calls for it. I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern.
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. This plan is a good guide to building double doors that are uneven sizes. Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door. 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.
Eliminating the swing space required for a hinged door means that the space in front of the door has a lot more options. We have an awesome building project for you today. We re building sliding barn doors. The door at the end isn t the finest we ve seen but it is an easier build and the shed door is quite sturdy.