How to add a lock to a barn door.
How to make a sliding barn door lock.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
This is going to be a two part series.
Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door.
The doors simply slide together and can be locked together.
For double barn doors a sliding barn door latch isn t too difficult to find or install.
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How to design your sliding barn doors.
For a single sliding barn door the hardware and supplies are even less expensive and the whole project would have been under 200.
Check the measuring instructions or ask the manufacturer for help.
So despite the fact that the doors were in tact and looked amazing there was no real finished look to them and they certainly didn t lock.
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.
These drawings and tips show where the hardware goes and how to install a door.
It s easy to see why.
Also there was a giant gap on the sides with the door closed due to the nature of how barn doors work with trim work in the house.
The lock mounts to a door jamb to keep out prying eyes and keep barn doors shut.
We hope this helps you build sliding barn door for your farm building.
How to mount a barn door.
We met people from everbilt at the haven conference and talked too them about how one of our more popular posts of all time is about how to install one of their rival s sliding barn door hardware because the instructions were so confusing.
Consider the type of barn door.
How to build a barn door.
Kwik frame type sliding barn doors measure 5 1 2 up from the bottom of header at each jamb post.
No matter what type of doors you want to build a few hours and some basic supplies are all that you need.
Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch beyond the moldings of openings with trim.
We re building sliding barn doors.
Choose your barn door hardware before determining the door height.
We sell economical pole barn kits for farm and ranch.
I wish we had know about everbilt at the time because their directions are much more comprehensive.