Making A Cross Brace Barn Door

Attach the door boards to each other using horizontal brace boards a few inches from the top and bottom of the door.

Making a cross brace barn door.

It must be said that a ledged and braced. If your barn door doesn t have a groove in it there are roller guides and adjustable roller guides that will work. Use an impact driver to screw the screws through the 1 6 s in each of the 4 boards which make up the door. Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide.

Fasten the brace boards to each door board with deck screws measuring 1 4 inch less than the combined thickness of the brace board and door boards. To ensure your cross brace s angle stays greater than 45 degrees the height of your door has to be greater than the width. This is going to work as a brace for the door. The simplest guide is an l shaped metal bracket that mounts to the floor and fits into a groove cut in the bottom of the door.

Choose the guide that works best for your door. Now you know how to build a diy barn door. A ledged and braced door is based on at least three horizontal rails ledges on the rear of the door a diagonal brace again on the rear of the door and then as many vertical boards as needed to make the front face of the door. It requires a slight investment some time patience and elbow grease.

We often make wooden doors that match our wooden gates or garage doors. Designed to cover a 30 inch wide opening with 4 inch casing on either side this door measures 38 inches wide by 2 inches thick by 83 inches tall. 1x6 pine boards for the back. Make the door frame to fit the opening assemble the frame only no batten boards no cross braces.

Place one of the cross brace pieces under the frame exactly where you want it using bits of scrap to support the door frame and hold it level on top of the cross piece.