Building A Sliding Barn Door

We finally got around to building a sliding barn door for our closet! If you've seen the walk in closet video series you'll know we intended on installing a sliding barn door and three and a half years later...here it is!

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[jasonperkins]

Very nice. About to do a couple for my wife. Very helpful thank you.

[johnyoung]

Thank you for posting this video. I'm about to build bifold barn doors for my laundry room (not enough walls space for a slider) and this is incredibly helpful. Well done!

[allaboutcanines]

I love how easily you made this. I thought I'd have to get help, but maybe only when I'm putting it up. I have a wood supply place where I can get unusual woods, but will likely stick to Doug Fir or clear pine. Thank you for making the video.

[martinmeasures]

I'm just about to do the self same thing, but being an amateur diy'er I couldn't figure out the technique for the build, but you've inspired me thankyou, I'm using inch n 3/4 x 5 1/2 milled pine, captured before going into a chipper, I know it's going to be heavy, it's getting fixed to an old masonry litntle, I'm going to beef up the litntle with two new timbers fixed deep into the masonry, I'm also installing two new legs over the existing ones. But anyway thanks for your ideas.
Martin in the 🇬🇧

[rogercoates]

Nice job, One question ?? no one talks about the location of the rail above the existing door header, .. 2 inch for placement of rollers,
what about the vertical height / location of the top of the door itself, ie. carpet or hard wood floor (for vertical adjustment) ??

[helookalikaman]

The X boards (not with Cherry to expensive to waste on a mess up) I would make both boards fit snug then mark the intersection on the two boards and the door as well.. Cut the board and install.... and if you want the lines (the routing lines) you could also have each board (4) meet in the middle, instead of the one long and two short

[medik]

Hello. Great video. I didn’t see any mention to which router bits you used and sizes in your equipment list. Can you please list them? I am new to routing and am tackling this barn door project. I like the way you beveled the verticals ever so slightly and trimmed off the overhang. I just need to know what bits you used to accomplish that. Thank you.

[simondegroot]

Nice project! I recommend the optional slow close system that you can buy with it. It really improves the experience of using the door.

[frankhouck]

Ok - I would have done a glue up on the vertical boards. Gluing seams will not inhibit expansion/contraction - which happens across the grain. The cross batons, however, can cause issues. Those could be attached with slots and visible hardware to allow that expansion.

[MrRdt]

hi thinking of sliding dorr for bathrrom how would i lock it from inside is there a special lock you get any help please

[joelsmith]

nice work, im building one of these for our master bathroom

[britishbuilds]

I just built a door and missed the slot at the bottom. What is that little jig for your router? Thanks

[Killmode]

Love it!! All but one thing. The fact that the door doesn’t travel far enough to the left. So it looks like it shortens up the entrance by 2-3 inches. Which isn’t a big deal. But it would bother the hell out of me.

[chrisfabish]

Looks great! Now that it's been up for a while, any issues/updates on wood movement without gluing/doweling/biscuiting (?) the vertical boards?

[silverbackag]

I wouldn’t buy cherry from a big box store…simply because I like to keep it from one tree for color consistency months down the road.

[stephensnyder]

why cant we see what was installed at the bottom. Every video on youtube for these doors completely hides the bottom of the door.

[asnawihasan]

the height of the ceiling in US are too short, maybe just 2, 6 m ~ 3 m in average.. but in my country here, Indonesia, its almost 3 ~ 4 m high..i dont know why

[MAGAMAN]

Wow, he even couldn't even find a properly sized track kit for the door. There is a whole bunch of useless track on one side of the door and there isn't enough track on the other side to completely open the door. The door is also undersized for the opening. The sad thing is there are a whole lot of people out there that think he did a good job. He didn't.

[MAGAMAN]

Doesn't glue the planks together because he "Wants to allow for wood movement" but does glue the top and bottom cross boards on. That is some peak retardation right there. He literally did the opposite of what he should have done to allow for wood movement.

[rippermantwo]

Just get to the project. Back off on all of the production stuff. Just showing up to learn how to make this. Everything else is just time wasted for me.