How To Hang A Barn Door Track

If installing two sliding doors remember that the tracks should be twice as wide as each door so that you can slide two doors together.

How to hang a barn door track.

Custom barn doors are a lot of fun with the right help. How to hang a sliding barn door. Use joint brackets to attach sections of track as needed. Use the drywall anchors spacers and lag bolts to secure the mounting board.

Measure up from the floor the length of the door plus an inch and a quarter. 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. To secure the track to the wall and add support for the heavy barn door cut a 1 x 4 mounting board the same length as but a little wider than the track. Make sure there s no bend in the track and that all of your components are level and secure before opening and closing your door.

Hang the door the last step to installing your barn door track is to finally hang your door from the hanger rollers and line it up onto the track. The tracks should be exactly as long as the section along which you wish the door to slide. Learn how to create your own barn and commercial sliding door systems with 3 easy steps. Measure and cut two lengths of track for each barn door.

If the track in your barn door hardware kit is longer then use a hacksaw to cut an even amount of track off each side. It should be tall enough so that when it s hung on the track there is about 1 2 inch of space between the bottom of the door and the floor. Here is the link to build one. We need to decide how high on the wall you need to hang the track.

Also explore interactive features that will help you select the ideal sliding door frame and rail and hanger. Secure a 2 4 across the center of the line you drew in step one. Using a level draw a horizontal line the length of the sliding door track step two. Alright this is another tricky one so bear with me.