How To Hang A Barn Door In Your House
Measure to the point where you ll plan to put the stop for your barn door.
How to hang a barn door in your house. Custom barn doors are a lot of fun with the right help. Measure the width of your doorway the amount of space you want from the doorway and out where the barn doors will hang. The boards should be as long as the doors and about 1 inch or 4 cm wider than the track. Attach the hanger rollers and hang the door.
The barn door should be wide enough to completely cover the doorway with an inch or two of overhang on both sides and about one inch at the top. In this video i show you how to install barn doors using a standard flat bar rail set that i purchased from home depot. Double barn doors require open wall space on both sides of the doorway. Attach hanger rollers to the door according to the manufacturer s instructions using the supplied carriage bolts washers and nuts.
With this step by step guide you ll have stylish functional barn doors hanging in your house in no time. These rails are available at most of. Attach the mounting boards to the top and bottom of the doorway using drywall anchors and ensure that the mounting boards run straight along the doorway. Fortunately it may be possible to relocate these fixtures.
Use a socket wrench to tighten with another person or two attach the bottom roller guide and rollers and hang the door on the track. Keep in mind that light switches electrical outlets and heating and cooling registers on the walls next to the opening could be in the way. You might want the track to extend a couple inches beyond the stop just for appearances so add a couple inches on each side for that.