How To Keep Barn Doors From Sagging

Make a cardboard shim to fix your sagging door next you need to figure out which hinge needs the shim.

How to keep barn doors from sagging.

If it is the doors. Hardluckcharlie shows how to fix a sagging gate using a cable wire rope and a turnbuckle. Run one end of the cable through one eye of a turnbuckle bend it in a loop and fasten it to itself with a cable. The primary way of doing so is to route a channel at the bottom of the door s panel that the guide will use to travel.

This is the process to follow to make sure that the following solution will work. Just remove the screws pull the door out very carefully just enough to slide your cardboard shim underneath it. Then lift the door till it is level again and replace the z brace. Once you ve bought the correct size door and hardware open the package and make sure you have all the right pieces.

How to raise straighten shed doors with turnbuckles step 1. Check the installation instructions for the adjustable shed door brace. You ll need at least as much space on the outside of the door as on. If routing isn t an option for your panel type there are full length guide channels that you can affix to the bottom instead.

Use a car floor jack and lift from the outside edge of the door and take the weight off it. Measure each door diagonally from the hinge side at the top to the bottom corner where the door drags the sill. Order your shed door brace and install. Familiarize yourself with the instructions.

Now take the diagonal brace off. You can simply take the screws out of one hinge without removing the complete door.