How To Make A Paper Sliding Door Jail

Most cell doors swing open and outward.

How to make a paper sliding door jail. May 11 2015 perhaps you need jail bars as a prop for a stage play or want them to create a creepy dungeon scene for halloween decorations or a haunted house. The classic jail bars on a sliding track are more the exception than they are the rule. The main structure of the door is a piece of plywood to achieve the thickness needed for the hangers we bought 1x3 lumber to make a frame. Very simple cheap and q.

The doors will have a small window but other than that they have a sturdy metal construction with an average weight of 300 pounds and a standard thickness of 3 inches. We read the instructions and sketched a simple plan of what we wanted the door to look like. I needed a door for a room that i ended up converting it into an office. Most cell doors swing open and outward.

I needed a door for the kitchen but wanted to keep the room as bright as possible so i decided to build a shoij screen sliding door. To be very honest this type of video has been shot by me before i make metal doors in my shop and i make them all of the time so i figured this time i wo. This video is my first adventure in building something from scratch. Whether you plan to put a cot behind your jail bars or decorated them with fake cobwebs and rubber spiders there is no need to purchase expensive metal bars.