First you will need to measure the size of your door opening and determine the width and height you want your door to be.
Tongue and groove pine barn door.
1 x 4 x 8 oak for guide rail support.
Start by building a door for a 36 inch opening with typical 4 by 96 inch tongue and groove wood.
Tongue groove our white pine t g has been kiln dried and is ready for installation and finishing.
Lay all of your pine tongue and groove out.
10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot.
Don t pay for expensive online barn door hardware when you can you purchase a box rail system from tractor supply for less than half the cost of most online hardware.
Step 2 installing the tongue groove board to back of barn door.
1 x 6 x 8 tongue and groove shiplap.
Coarse drywall screws 1 countersink bit.
Build the door as a blank and then cut it down on a table saw to make it fit the opening.
Two distinct faces allow you to create different looks for your project depending on the side you choose to display the boards can be supplied in 8 ft 10 ft 12 ft 14 ft 16 ft or a random mix of these lengths.
Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door.
I also like this board because it has.
I purchased mine at lowe s for 5 58 each and used 8 boards for the door 3 for the frame and 2 for the british brace arrow look so 13 total per door.
Minwax jacobean stain is the color.
Mar 24 2017 my husband made this barn door out of pine tongue groove boards and hardware from the local tractor supply store.
Unfinished knotty pine tongue and groove barn wood board 15 pack.
5 1x6x8 pine 8 1x6x8 tongue groove pine hardware 8ft sliding barn door hardware kit 1 1 4 pocket screws 1 1 4 brad nails 3 bolts accessories 9 barn door handle finish minwax special walnut stain minwax satin polycrylic.
Diy barn doors step 1 selecting the material.
Here is what we used to make our barn door.
How to build a sliding barn door.
With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years.
Before you build this barn door i definitely suggest to measure your doorway and determine how wide your door needs to be.
Tongue and groove boards are available in 1 6 and 1 8 so the number of boards and size will be based on how wide you want your finished door.
I would purchase a few extra just in case you make a mistake.
The next step to building the barn door was installing the rough sawn tongue and groove boards to the back of the face frame.
We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board.
This door above is made from 1 8 tongue and groove pine boards.
1 x 6 x 8 pine.