A table saw with a dado blade will also work.
How to cut barn door rod at home.
Now my mind is set on replacing the curtain with a barndoor.
First you ll want to cut all your tongue and groove boards to length.
Clamp or hold a straightedge or square along the cutting marks and score a line with the tip of a sharp utility knife blade.
It is not av great look but it works.
Since this is an old house there are some draft issues.
Now you have both pieces inside the frame so you can scribe the place where they intersect.
Paint and install hardware.
For wider doors cut the track to fit and join the pieces with connectors available from the hardware manufacturer.
Cut the boards to the right width and cut rabbets on two edges of all but two boards.
Drive the screws through the 1 6 to secure the 1 12 boards.
Picture is not mine was found online we have arrived very small entryway leading into a bigger hallway.
Barn door hardware wood putty orbital sander.
Cut one rabbet on two boards that will be used on the outside edges.
You can use the same trick to cut metal studs.
Cut along the scribe lines on the inside to half the depth of the cross pieces and eliminate the waste this can be done with repeated cuts to the right depth then chiseling the waste away.
Want to see how we made these actual barn doors come check it out.
So we cut all of our tongue and groove to 84 1 2 inches.
For our 4 ft wide door we cut each board five inches wide.
I painted my barn doors using some old trim paint i had in my garage and let it dry thoroughly before installing the barn door hardware.
A 3 foot door requires 6 feet of track.
To do this decide on the height and the width you want the door to be.
Structural support is required barn doors can be heavy up to 200 pounds or more so for sturdiness most people mount the track to a header attached to the wall studs above the doorway.
Now your half lap joint is ready.
We used a 3 8 in.
We have had av double curtain hung in the doorway between these two rooms.
Snip the two sides.
Rabbeting bit to cut the rabbets.
But i am worried about all the air and draft running in.
We have multiple sized barn doors in our home but our door measured 38 1 2 x 84 1 2.
The barn on our new farm needed some new doors so we made some out of steel and cedar.
Your door is the proper length which means it s time to finish the door of.
Then bend the sheet back and forth a few times to snap it.
Yours may be different.
This barn door window treatment project is a great opportunity to be creative with the design of your space.
Grab another 1 6 and cut it to the width of the door.
