Line the panels up side by side and mark were you want to trim them to length.
How to put barn doors.
The nice thing about the jeld wen barn door kit is you can install the door right over your existing door trim.
Construction of a barn door track is the easiest part of the project below are tips on how to go about it to start with collect two steel plates.
Then we drilled a couterbore and held the panels in place with a fender washer and a 1 kreg screw.
Attach the mounting boards to the top and bottom of the doorway using drywall anchors and ensure that the mounting boards run straight along the doorway.
You will need to use some spackle we used the quick dry version to fill the area where you remove the previous doors hinges but that is all.
We inserted the panels into the door centering the panels in the opening.
I ve never installed one of these interior sliding doors or as some people call them barn doors.
You do not need to remove the trim.
Attach one plate to the mounting board the second one is for the rollers.
Measure and cut two lengths of mounting board for each barn door.
We cut them to length using the miter saw.
For single doors start about three or four inches up on the hinge side of the door opening and continue for the length of the backer board.
The boards should be as long as the doors and about 1 inch or 4 cm wider than the track.
There originally was a pocket door on the left side of the.