Framing For A Sliding Barn Door

It should just take a screwdriver to take out the screws and the hardware will pop off.
Framing for a sliding barn door. Starting at the top rail butt the mitered ends of two pieces of similar thickness and color together at the centerline forming an arrow. If needed you can substitute 1x10 t g boards for 1x8 1x12 or even 2x6 or 2x8 boards. It s time to assemble the frame of the barn door. Once you have the doors off take off all the hardware attached to the door frame.
The door will slide left to right. The hardware needs to installed along the top of the wall but there isn t enough clearance to the far left so i think the best solution is to frame out the opening to 1 make the opening smaller 2 install a header so there is enough clearance along the top to install the hardware. Snap chalk line across header bottom chord of truss place 2x6 track board with top edge flush with chalk line. Once you take the peg out the hinge will come loose.
Set the miter saw to 45 degrees and cut one end off each pallet board. There s a peg in the top of each door hinge just pull it out or grab a hammer to help knock it out. Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims. Kwik frame type sliding barn doors measure 5 1 2 up from the bottom of header at each jamb post.
Use a straightedge to mark a centerline down the door s two inset panels. Measure from both corners of the door before screwing the middle rail to the stiles. To do this we started by gluing and screwing the bottom rail to both sides stiles.