Our door is 8 tall so we cut two 8 pieces and four.
How to make wooden sliding doors.
The main structure of the door is a piece of plywood to achieve the thickness needed for the hangers we bought 1x3 lumber to make a frame.
If you have a nail gun you can shoot a few nails to hold it but if you don t clamps work fine.
How to build and install a sliding door step 1.
I added a little bit of wood glue between each piece to give the door stability.
Make sure everything lines up and clamp along the edges to hold in place.
We read the instructions and sketched a simple plan of what we wanted the door to look like.
Wardrobe doors can rest in front of the closet opening sliding back and forth when you need to get into an out of an area.
Sliding doors can work in many areas of the home.
Before building the door measure the doorway.
Put wood glue along all the wood pieces down the sides and across all the slats.
We started by picking everbilt sliding door hardware available at home depot.
Cut 1 x2 x8 boards to make the outer frame of the door.
I didn t have to cut any of these pieces but if your opening is not 8ft you will need to measure and cut accordingly.
Wardrobe if you have closets that are not separated from the other parts of a room you probably want to install wardrobe wooden sliding doors.
Where to install a wooden sliding door.
The barn door looks best if it overlaps the opening by at least.