Trim Around A Barn Door Opening

Remove the inner trim.

Trim around a barn door opening.

This option is most common for larger openings or applications where you don t have enough room for a single door to slide. Barn doors step 1. Mark the stud locations hold the. In instances where casing is present we recommend building the door to the same size as the opening casing.

Another option is bi parting doors. Trimmed or cased opening width. This is the case in the photos below where the opening is centered and the doors open in opposite directions so that they can be stored on either side of the opening. We removed the standard sized existing basement door as well as the door hinges.

Removing the doors door hardware. How to frame a doorway for barn doors step 1. This application is great for areas where barn doors are desired but there isn t adequate room on either side of the opening. Barn door installation without removing door trim just a quick spackle.

For single doors start about. The nice thing about the jeld wen barn door kit is you can install the door right over your existing door trim. There s a peg in the top. And the door will have a gap at the bottom in order to clear the flooring.

You do not need to remove the trim. We cut scraps of wood to shim each side to the desired depth. Taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy. In some places we used pieces that were an inch thick other places we needed thinner pieces like scraps of beadboard.

You then need to calculate the side length and the head length and then make the cuts. I know that people typically extend the header to encompass the full length of the rail. Since in most cases there will be an installed continuous base trim piece that means that there will be a gap between the barn door and the jamb sides and head top of the door equal to the depth of the base trim. The final option is bypass doors.

The resulting transition of a smooth opening was worth the effort. In this example the total width is 38. In every doorway there s a piece of trim running in the middle that keeps the door from. The level of the opening varied greatly around each side of the door.

Prime and paint the backer board there should be one inch of space between the barn door and the wall frame. First you need to prepare to install the door trim. Measure from the outside of the casing to the outside of the casing for the door width.