Making Sliding Shed Doors

Good guide if the situation calls for it.

Making sliding shed doors.

14 steps to building your own sliding barn doors step 1. I was able to build this one in about 30 minutes. Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims. Sliding doors have several advantages over hinged doors for wide openings.

Entry doors are easy. Building door for a center aisle barn. You can also add a diagonal board from a top corner to the opposite bottom corner for more. 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.

Big doors are a little more challenging. 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. Next cut boards to frame the top bottom and sides of your door then glue them in place using wood glue. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.

Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width. Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door. Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room. How to build a single shed door.

Adding a roll up shed door. I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern. Plan for a 2 day project. Build the door steps 2 10.

Building single shed doors. He uses kreg concealed fastening system for strong wood to wood joints and great hidden fastener end result. What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your. This plan is a good guide to building double doors that are uneven sizes.

Check out this construction guide for building a single shed door. To build a door for a shed start by cutting a piece of wood paneling or ti 11 siding to the size of the door opening minus 1 2 inch on each side. 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. We re building sliding barn doors.

This method is really simple and can be used for building small or large single swing shed doors up to 3 wide. I usually just buy prehung exterior shed doors like you d install in a garage or house. Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build. This is going to be a two part series.