How to add a lock to a barn door.
How to make a sliding barn door lock.
For double barn doors a sliding barn door latch isn t too difficult to find or install.
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.
It s easy to see why.
Also there was a giant gap on the sides with the door closed due to the nature of how barn doors work with trim work in the house.
How to mount a barn door.
This is going to be a two part series.
Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch beyond the moldings of openings with trim.
How to build a barn door.
The first sharing how to build the barn door and the second will be talking about barn door hardware and installation in our attic family room.
We met people from everbilt at the haven conference and talked too them about how one of our more popular posts of all time is about how to install one of their rival s sliding barn door hardware because the instructions were so confusing.
We hope this helps you build sliding barn door for your farm building.
We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store.
We re building sliding barn doors.
These drawings and tips show where the hardware goes and how to install a door.
Consider the type of barn door.
The lock mounts to a door jamb to keep out prying eyes and keep barn doors shut.
I wish we had know about everbilt at the time because their directions are much more comprehensive.
Kwik frame type sliding barn doors measure 5 1 2 up from the bottom of header at each jamb post.
The doors simply slide together and can be locked together.
Choose your barn door hardware before determining the door height.
You can add more overlap for extra privacy.
No matter what type of doors you want to build a few hours and some basic supplies are all that you need.
A teardrop sliding door lock is one option to consider for added privacy.
For a single sliding barn door the hardware and supplies are even less expensive and the whole project would have been under 200.
How to design your sliding barn doors.
Building a sliding barn door means you don t have to rip open and reframe a wall for a pocket door.
So despite the fact that the doors were in tact and looked amazing there was no real finished look to them and they certainly didn t lock.