How To Cut Barn Door Rod At Home

This barn door window treatment project is a great opportunity to be creative with the design of your space.

How to cut barn door rod at home.

A 3 foot door requires 6 feet of track. Yours may be different. So we cut all of our tongue and groove to 84 1 2 inches. Drive the screws through the 1 6 to secure the 1 12 boards.

Want to see how we made these actual barn doors come check it out. Cut one rabbet on two boards that will be used on the outside edges. A table saw with a dado blade will also work. We used a 3 8 in.

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. Scribe on each side of the door. To do this decide on the height and the width you want the door to be. We have had av double curtain hung in the doorway between these two rooms.

Paint and install hardware. Rabbeting bit to cut the rabbets. The barn on our new farm needed some new doors so we made some out of steel and cedar. 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.

For wider doors cut the track to fit and join the pieces with connectors available from the hardware manufacturer. Place three screws in each section of the 1 12 boards. Lay the freshly cut board across the bottom of the door. Now you have both pieces inside the frame so you can scribe the place where they intersect.

You can use the same trick to cut metal studs. Now your half lap joint is ready. Picture is not mine was found online we have arrived very small entryway leading into a bigger hallway. Snip the two sides.

Since this is an old house there are some draft issues. First you ll want to cut all your tongue and groove boards to length. Cut the boards to the right width and cut rabbets on two edges of all but two boards. 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. Then bend the sheet back and forth a few times to snap it. Barn door hardware wood putty orbital sander. 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.

It is not av great look but it works. For our 4 ft wide door we cut each board five inches wide. Clamp or hold a straightedge or square along the cutting marks and score a line with the tip of a sharp utility knife blade.