This will ensure that your door is square.
How to frame a barn door opening.
Remove the inner trim.
Next glue and screw the bottom mullion to the bottom rail and middle rail.
There s a peg in the top.
The door will slide left to right.
Removing the doors door hardware.
Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch.
Make the opening the width of the door plus 2 inches 5 1 cm and if additional studs are needed a space for these as.
Measure the opening to determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside dimensions of the.
To do this we started by gluing and screwing the bottom rail to both sides stiles.
Choose your barn door hardware before.
It s time to assemble the frame of the barn door.
Taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy.
Measure your door carefully and cut the opening to fit using a reciprocating saw.
In every doorway there s a piece of trim running in the middle that keeps the door from.
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.
How to frame a doorway for barn doors step 1.