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Making a tongue and groove barn door.
How to build a sliding barn door.
With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years.
10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot.
The first step before you build and install a sliding barn door is to measure your door opening size and decided which hardware kit you re going to need.
Build the door as a blank and then cut it down on a table saw to make it fit the opening.
We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board.
Batten doors can be made with tongue and groove doors ship lap or simple boards that are typically suitable for outdoor use.
Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.
I purchased mine at lowe s for 5 58 each and used 8 boards for the door 3 for the frame and 2 for the british brace arrow look so 13 total per door.
Step 2 installing the tongue groove board to back of barn door.
Here is what we used to make our barn door.
The next step to building the barn door was installing the rough sawn tongue and groove boards to the back of the face frame.
Lay all of your pine tongue and groove out.
Build and install a sliding barn door.
Start by building a door for a 36 inch opening with typical 4 by 96 inch tongue and groove wood.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.
We cut each 8 wide piece to our desired length 84 and then ran the end pieces through the table saw to remove the exposed tongue and the groove slots on each side of the door.
Diy barn doors step 1 selecting the material.
First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be.
The tongue and groove boards not only look great but add a tremendous amount of strength to the overall piece.
My barn door will be using the 79 or 6 foot 7 inch kit from industrial by design that accommodates a maximum door opening size of 38 or smaller.
Tongue and groove and ship lad doors offer weather resistance by closing the seams off.
Since i wanted my door to be 37 inches wide to cover the opening and my 6 pieces of 1x6 inch tongue and groove which really measures 75 x 5 5 inches only measures to 33 inches when assembled 5 5 x 6 33 my 7th tongue and groove board needs to be cut down the middle using a table saw to two 2 inch pieces.
How to build a board and batten door video materials used for board and batten doors.