With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years.
Using 1x4 tongue and groove pine for barn door.
Coarse drywall screws 1 countersink bit.
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.
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.
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.
Looks great works great.
8 penny bright steel nails 1 lb pack.
Diy barn doors step 1 selecting the material.
Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door.
Our natural knotty pine paneling is tongue and groove and end matched for zero waste.
First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be.
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 sliding barn door.
We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board.
To better envision how the doors will be built picture the completed door as a pb j sandwich.
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.
Contractor cedar shim grip rite 12 1 2 x 2 1 2 in.
Minwax jacobean stain is the color.
Start by building a door for a 36 inch opening with typical 4 by 96 inch tongue and groove wood.
The tongue and groove boards are the pb j filling the 1x6 and 1x4 boards are the bread.
Many years ago we pioneered a unique tongue n groove design on the ends of the paneling boards known as end matching after years of educating the public on the advantages of end matched tongue and groove wood planks our pine planking soon became extremely popular with.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of.
Lay all of your pine tongue and groove out.
Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.
I would purchase a few extra just in case you make a mistake.
Mar 24 2017 my husband made this barn door out of pine tongue groove boards and hardware from the local tractor supply store.
Don t pay for expensive online barn door hardware when you can you purchase a box rail system from tractor supply for less than half the cost of most online hardware.
Southern yellow pine tongue and groove board irving 15 in.