Remove the inner trim.
How to frame a barn door opening.
The door will slide left to right.
This will ensure that your door is square.
In every doorway there s a piece of trim running in the middle that keeps the door from.
How to frame a doorway for barn doors step 1.
I want to install a sliding barn door on the opening to make it more private when we have guests.
It s time to assemble the frame of the barn door.
Measure your door carefully and cut the opening to fit using a reciprocating saw.
Sliding doors should extend at least an inch beyond the sides of the opening that don t have trim or an inch.
There s a peg in the top.
Removing the doors door hardware.
Measure from both corners of the door before screwing the middle rail to the stiles.
Next glue and screw the bottom mullion to the bottom rail and middle rail.
To do this we started by gluing and screwing the bottom rail to both sides stiles.
Make the opening the width of the door plus 2 inches 5 1 cm and if additional studs are needed a space for these as.
The hardware needs to installed along the top of the wall but there isn t enough clearance to the far left so i think the best solution is to frame out the opening to 1 make the opening smaller 2 install a header so there is enough clearance along the top to install the hardware.
Taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy.