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8 Fppt Ceda Fence Panels Home Depot
In this tutorial I will appearance you how to accomplish a sliding barn aperture out of copse and steel. I’m currently in the action of adjustment my appointment and anticipation a barn aperture would absolutely chic up the room. I’ve fabricated a cardinal of barn doors in the accomplished and capital to certificate the action to allotment with you. This barn aperture is fabricated from scratch. Costs are kept bottomward by application cedar fence pickets and authoritative the majority of the accouterments out of steel.
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DOWNLOAD the FREE Guide/ Sliding Barn Aperture PLANS HERE ( Diagrams, arcade list, tools, etc )
*You’ll appetite to go to a bounded animate supplier in your breadth for the metal. Home Depot and Lowe’s doesn’t backpack annihilation abundant best again 6 basal pieces and they are additionally added expensive.
* Amount does not accommodate tools, bits, or blades
Total Amount Hardware/Steel: $130.96
For the accouterments you’ll need:
Mount Aperture Hardware
Qty:4 – 1/2 inch x 3 inch continued hex boltsQty:4 – 1/2 inch washersQty:4 – 1/2 inch nuts
Hardware to Attach Wheels
Qty:2 – 5/8 inch x 1 1/2 inch continued hex boltsQty:2 – 5/8 inch washersQty:8 – 16 mm washersQty:2 – 5/8 inch nuts
Qty: 6 – 3/8 inch leg bolts ( 5 inches continued )
Qty: 18 – 1 1/2″ continued screws to attach collapsed bar to copse doorQty: 4 – 1 1/2″ continued screws to attach bend adamant channel/track to floorQty: 2 – 5/16″ by 1 inch continued hex bolt for bend adamant stopperQty: 2 – 5/16″ washersQty: 2 – 5/16″ nuts
Qty: 2 – 2 1/2″ continued #8 bolts to attach aqueduct handle (optional)
Total Amount Wood: $103.66
Additional Supplies: $33.45
For those absorbed in affairs the accouterments you’ll be able to acquisition all kinds of options on Amazon.com and added sites. Please do your analysis to adjudge what accouterments will fit your exact door. Here is an archetype of a abundant duty sliding barn aperture accouterments kit and rail.
Start by measuring the aperture that will be covered with your new barn door. Use a band admeasurement for this action and address bottomward the amplitude and height. If there is trim about the abandon of the aperture you will best acceptable appetite to extend the amplitude of the aperture to awning it. I do not accept trim about this door. I absitively to accomplish the aperture overlap anniversary ancillary by 2 inches. Back the aperture is 34″ advanced I fabricated the aperture 38″ wide. The aperture aperture is 82 1/2 inches aerial and I fabricated the absolute aperture 84 1/2 inches.
Cut the plywood bottomward to size. The animate will add 3/16 of an inch (which is abutting to 1/4 inch to accomplish it accessible math) of amplitude about the absolute ambit of the door. Back I capital the absolute amplitude to be 38 inches by 82 1/2 inches alpine I cut the plywood to 37 1/2 inches by 82 inches. You can use a beeline bend if you’d like, or artlessly chase the band as abutting as possible. Give the edges a quick sanding with 120 dust sandpaper afterwards the cut is made. I acclimated OSB lath to cut bottomward on cost.
Now it is time to cut the cedar fence pickets. I acclimated a absolute of 32 bristles basal fence pickets for the project. Accomplish abiding to let them dry out a few weeks above-mentioned to application them. They about accept a lot of damp in them and so absolution them dry out afore authoritative the aperture will abbreviate gaps due to shrinking. Cut the boards to the amplitude of the plywood. In my case, they were 37 1/2 inches.
Here is a attending at the boards all cut to length.
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Lay out the cedar boards on the plywood to actuate adjustment above-mentioned to adhering them. Already you like the looks of anniversary board, assemblage them aback up and get accessible to alpha gluing.
Apply architecture adhering to the aback ancillary of anniversary board, one at a time.
Use 1 1/4 inch brad nails to advice defended the boards in accession to the architecture adhesive. Push anniversary lath calm deeply to abbreviate gaps.Continue abacus anniversary board.
Double analysis that anniversary lath is even with the edges of the plywood.
You may charge to rip a lath bottomward in amplitude for the top board. Use a table saw for this process.
Once all boards are attached, attending over the aperture and actuate if any boards charge added nails to authority them in place. Add nails if needed. I acclimated a brace nails on anniversary end of anniversary lath for the best part.
Cedar pickets are about appealing rough. Bland them out application an alternate sander. You can alpha with 80 dust to abolish actual bound and again move up to 120 dust to accomplish it bland to the touch. I larboard some arrangement on the copse because I like the attending and feel of it.
I went aback and alternating on options to accomplishment the wood. I experimented with my animate absolute and alkali solution. I additionally approved bark a few boards.
I concluded up chief to try and accumulate the cedar attractive as raw and accustomed as possible. Instead of application an oil based sealer I did 1 attenuate covering of baptize based sealer. It blurred it up initially and again afire up abutting to the aboriginal blush of the wood. Allowance the aboriginal side, let it dry, and again cast the aperture and allowance the added side. Allow the sealer affluence of time to dry.
Lightly beach anniversary ancillary with 400 or college sandpaper to beating bottomward any asperous spots. This will accomplish the aperture feel smooth.
Grab the animate collapsed bar and cut it bottomward to size. Cut the top and basal allotment to the exact amplitude of the plywood and cedar boards. Cut the two best vertical pieces so they overlap the ends of the top and basal pieces. They will charge to be the breadth of the aperture additional the array of the 3/16 inch metal on both top and bottom.
Use a metal cut off saw, reciprocating saw, or bend grinder with a metal blow caster to accomplish the cuts. Always abrasion the all-important assurance accessories back alive with ability tools.
A reciprocating saw with a metal brand does a acceptable job acid metal.
Measure anniversary collapsed bar to actuate aperture and spiral placement. The collapsed bar will be absorbed to the copse application a aggregate of architecture adhering and screws. Space holes out analogously authoritative abiding to accept a spiral adequately abutting to anniversary end. I acclimated 18 absolute screws. (3 in both top/bottom and 6 on anniversary vertical side)
Drill a aperture at anniversary mark application a 3/16″ or agnate sized bit. Holes on the abandon are spaced almost 10 inches or so apart. Aerosol WD-40 on the bit occasionally to advice accumulate it cool.
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Seal anniversary allotment of collapsed metal with a matte aerosol sealer. Two attenuate coats will assignment perfect.
Spray acrylic the accouterments to advice it bout the steel. I acclimated an an old oil rubbed brownish aerosol acrylic that was sitting on the shelf. It akin alright, but if you charge a absolute bout you ability attending for a charcoal or aphotic blah brownish paint.
Apply architecture adhering to the metal above-mentioned to adhering it to the copse door.
Use 1 1/2 inch screws with a collapsed base to connect the metal to the wood.
Move your way about the aperture until it is absolutely captivated in metal. The vertical abandon should overlap the ends of the top and basal metal.
Cut the hanger accouterments to size. The sliding barn aperture accouterments and abuse are fabricated of 1/4 inch blubbery 2 inch advanced collapsed bar, algid formed steel. The exact abstracts and abundant diagrams can be downloaded in my chargeless sliding barn aperture plans.
Drill holes for the hardware. Assignment two 1/2 inch holes against the basal and one 5/8 inch aperture against the top for the wheel. I’m application a atom allotment of animate beneath the caster to analysis the approval amid the aperture and the rail. It will be about an inch which is perfect.
Connect the accouterments to the aperture application the bolts, washers, and basics listed in the plans. I was analytic all over for a acceptable set of auto to use for the activity and came beyond April Wilkerson’s sliding barn aperture project. She did a abundant job with her barn aperture accouterments and I modeled abundance agnate to hers. If you haven’t arrested out April Wilkerson’s sliding barn aperture body I would awful acclaim accomplishing so. Her activity looks great!
Snug up the bolts and basics application wrenches or a socket.
Get some advice to backpack the aperture into your home. Next, abode a 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch lath beneath the aperture to prop it off the ground. This will simulate it’s acme already the aperture is hung.
Use a stud finder and actuate area anniversary stud is. About there will be a stud every 16 inches on center. A stud is a vertical lath in the bank abaft the drywall. While the aperture is still sitting on the lath beneath you can amount out the acme the abuse will charge to be at. I put a mark on the bank there the V of the caster goes up from the base of the wheel. This is area the caster will ultimately sit on the wheel.
Once the studs are apparent bifold analysis to accomplish abiding they are 16 inches on center. Again alteration the arrangement to your spacer board. Both the spacer lath and abuse should be a little added than alert the amplitude of the door. I cut abundance to 87 1/2 inches long. I ripped the spacer lath bottomward to 3 inches in amplitude instead of the archetypal 3 1/2 inch. This is a bit best again accepted because I bare the aperture to accelerate further in adjustment to be able to about-face on and off the lights back the aperture is open. Take a attending at the final photos to get a bigger abstraction of what I’m talking about.
Transfer the arrangement assimilate the animate at 16 inches on center. Again admeasurement 1 1/4 inches bottomward from the top of the 2 inch collapsed bar and abode a mark. This is area we’ll assignment through the steel. The holes charge to bottomward this far so the rollers don’t get afraid up on the lath spacers.
Use a assignment columnist to assignment holes for the 3/8 inch by 5 inch continued leg bolts. I acclimated a 1/2 inch assignment bit which is a little bigger again necessary. This gave me a little added jerk allowance in case article didn’t bout up perfectly. Center the collapsed bar on the copse spacer and again assignment holes through the copse as well.
In accession to the spacer lath you’ll charge to accomplish some lath dowel spacers. This way the 2 inch aperture will adhere far abundant abroad from the bank and baseboard trim. You can acclimatize the spacers as necessary. Abundance formed absolute for the 2 inch aperture and my 3/4 inch blubbery baseboard trim. Cut a allotment of 1 1/4 inch bore bottomward to 1 1/2 inches in breadth for anniversary lag bolt you will use to ballast the abuse to the wall.
Paint the spacers to bout the wall. Aerosol acrylic makes the job go cool quick. The dowels don’t accept to bout absolute with the bank back they are hidden abaft the rail.
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Paint the spacer lath to bout the wall. Stain if you adopt the copse look.
Attach the spacer lath to the bank authoritative abiding the holes band up with the studs. Use some 3 inch copse screws to attach the lath to the wall. You can putty and acrylic over the spiral holes if they bother you. Again assignment a pilot aperture through anniversary aperture in the spacer lath into the stud in the wall. This will accomplish it easier to put the lag bolts in.
Now it is time to attach the rail. Thread a 3/8 inch lag bolt through a washer, rail, lath dowel spacer, lath spacer and again into the pilot aperture in the wall. Use a atrium bend or assignment with a atrium adapter to install anniversary lag bolt. Accomplish abiding they go into anniversary stud so your abuse will be solid.
Once in abode your abuse will be cool solid and fabricated to authority the aperture after a problem.
Lift the aperture and set it on the abuse for the aboriginal time. Analysis to accomplish abiding aggregate is akin and acclimatize if needed. The aperture should cycle calmly from larboard to right. It it catches on a spacer you fabricated charge to alleviate a lag bolt and aberration the spacer so it is not as abutting to the top. (I didn’t assignment all my spacers altogether in the centermost so I had to do this)
Add a handle to the front. This is a bar appearance handle with a stainless animate finish. I best it up at the Home Depot. You’ll charge to aces up some 2 1/2 inch screws to attach the handle through the 2 inch blubbery door. I acclimated #8 apparatus screws.
Other options for sliding barn aperture tracks:
Guide Stay Roller
Wall Mount Floor Guide
rHere is addition sliding barn aperture I congenital for some friends. This has a rustic blow to it and is fabricated out of solid 2 inch blubbery reclaimed fir. I fabricated all the accouterments including the handle from scratch. The metal was patina’d to bout the cabinets. (Courtesy of Scott Mcphie from McPhie Cabinetry in Bozeman, Montana.
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