Making An Exterior Barn Door

We re building sliding barn doors.
Making an exterior barn door. Follow along as i show you how i build a siding barn door. If needed you can substitute 1x10 t g boards for 1x8 1x12 or even 2x6 or 2x8 boards. In a single afternoon and for a grand total of 125 00 we built both doors needed for the hallway. The most durable woods you can build an exterior barn door out of are ipe cumaru tigerwood massaranduba garapa angelim pedra and itauba.
If you want to cover the opening with one door you ll need an area on one side of the opening that s wide enough for the door. From the start i knew i wanted to build something fun and vibrant in the kitchen space to add color since most of the area is monochromatic. Diy sliding barn door hardware is available in all manner of styles and budgets and the door options are limitless from salvage finds to original diy creations like this one a mix of pallet wood and common cedar. The simplest way to build a door is to use 1x10 t g barn siding for the door and regular straight edge 1x10 barn siding for trims and cross bucks.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. Make sure to get t g boards for the door itself and regular boards for all of the trims. Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the area where you would like to install the barn door and figure out what door setup works best.
We have an awesome building project for you today. Visit rob s website where he shares his. This is going to be a two part series. This perpendicular pattern gives the door strength and helps minimize warping.
It consists of vertical boards on the exterior face and horizontal boards battens across the back or inside. These are all south american hardwoods that are proven to be more durable than teak and at a much cheaper price than teak. 14 steps to building your. A few years back we created our exterior barn doors from reclaimed lumber for our barn so we decided to make this one of our new diy projects and create the interior doors on our own as well and we couldn t be happier with the results.
When i looked into getting custom barn doors built the asking cost was close to 1200 for two doors not including hardware. A traditional barn door design is the so called batten door. Also show you how to install it.