Making A Tongue And Groove Barn Door

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.

Making a tongue and groove barn door.

Build and install a sliding barn door. 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. Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall. Start by building a door for a 36 inch opening with typical 4 by 96 inch tongue and groove wood.

Step 2 installing the tongue groove board to back of barn door. We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board. In the next step the tongue and groove boards will cover the pocket screw holes so there s no need to fill them. Tongue and groove and ship lad doors offer weather resistance by closing the seams off.

First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be. Lay all of your pine tongue and groove out. Build the door as a blank and then cut it down on a table saw to make it fit the opening. With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years.

We cut each 8 wide piece to our desired length 84 and then ran the end pieces through the table saw to remove the exposed tongue and the groove slots on each side of the door. The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall. 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. 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.

Diy barn doors step 1 selecting the material. Here is what we used to make our barn door. How to build a sliding barn door. 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.

Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door. How to build a board and batten door video materials used for board and batten doors. Batten doors can be made with tongue and groove doors ship lap or simple boards that are typically suitable for outdoor use. The next step to building the barn door was installing the rough sawn tongue and groove boards to the back of the face frame.