Quality hardware is a mustyour barn door will be a focal point in your home so it needs to look great perform flawlessly and.
Trimming out barn style sliding door.
You do not need to remove the trim.
Once you take the peg out the hinge will come loose.
Empty wall space next to the opening allows the door to slide freely.
There s a peg in the top of each door hinge just pull it out or grab a hammer to help knock it out.
We cut the side trim pieces to size and attached them to the side of the barn door with 1 1 4 brad nails and wood glue.
The opening will have full trim with 3 5 side casing and a 5 5 header see pic for an example of another door trimmed the same way.
I know that people typically extend the header to encompass the full length of the rail.
I m going to install a sliding door on a master ensuite closet opening.
You can find our favorite brad nailer here.
Before you install that interior sliding barn door you ve been dreaming about here are some things to consider 1.
I built this custom sliding barn door using only standard grade 1x4 lumber.
Removing the doors door hardware taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy.
Using only 15 standard 8 foot pine 1x4 boards you can do this too.
The nice thing about the jeld wen barn door kit is you can install the door right over your existing door trim.