How To Make Sliding Closet Doors

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How to make sliding closet doors.

If you don t have an existing soffit in your room on which to hang your doors you can build one by connecting two. First you have the rolling closet doors that always cover half the closet half the time and are a bit of a nightmare to install hate em then you have the old fashioned kind of closet doors where its basically just two interior doors side by side that open out i like this idea but they re. Cut four 2x4s for the door frame and miter each corner to a 45 degree angle. Measure the opening to your closet.

Then subtract 1 2 from the width of each panel and 3 4 of an inch from the bottom. If the opening is 48 inches wide. A half hour later and only 20 bucks lighter we packed two hollow core sliding closet doors into g man s truck. Flush doors do not have any raised sections and are completely flat.

Take the width of your closet door opening and divide in into 4. How to build sliding closet doors. The reason i say 3 4 from the bottom is because i did 1 2 inch shorter than my closet door opening an it was still too big. Our doors were 86 3 4 and the length.

I m very picky when it comes to closet doors i don t really like any of the options out there. With a dado blade on your table saw make a dado.