How To Install A Sliding Bedroom Door

Then screw the tracks down in place with your drill.

How to install a sliding bedroom door.

Sliding aka barn doors are on trend and easy to install. Use shims under screw holes to help keep your threshold in good shape. Begin positioning the door into the opening from your exterior area. Our door is 8 tall so we cut two 8 pieces and four.

We re adding two narrow strips of wood a quarter inch apart to the bottom of each door. Build paint and hang. Install tracks for the doors. Screw together the two 8 pieces and two 47 pieces to make a rectangle.

Place shims around the edges and top of. Before building the door measure the doorway. In this case we are using a pair of interior six panel doors for a six foot cased opening. Tilt the door into the opening with the bottom side going in first using shims as necessary to create a secure fit.

Pack up one end if it isn t. Cut 1 x2 x8 boards to make the outer frame of the door. Sliding door hardware can be used on almost any style of door. When newlyweds scott and chelsea iwatta bought a townhouse in costa mesa calif they.

Use your spirit level to make sure the floor is level before laying the tracks on the floor. The barn door looks best if it. Make a pilot hole in your floor through the track s pre drilled hole. Use the other two 47 pieces of wood to make the horizontal supports in the interior frame.

When you install them they should divide your door horizontally into thirds about 32 apart. Apply wood glue everywhere two wood pieces meet and attach with screws. Before building the door measure the doorway.