Line up the brackets and mark the holes on your door frame before drilling them out.
Materials to hang sliding barn door.
Be careful when drilling to avoid any tear out.
Make sure you have the necessary hardware.
Most installations will require a hanger board or ledger on the wall to mount the door track.
The hardware with the sliding barn door system should include the following.
Be sure to drill your screws into studs so as to ensure the tracking.
Double barn doors require open wall space on both sides of the doorway.
It also creates space for the new sliding door away from the wall to clear the trim.
Nathan installed the z bar knotty alder wood interior sliding barn door slab with hardware kit that can be found at the home depot the kit comes with all the materials required to assemble and hang the door though nathan choose to add additional 3 4 inch stock in this application because the wall was not plumb and the door would have hit the baseboard otherwise.
Hanging barn doors is not a difficult project but it does require attention to detail to ensure the door operates properly and safely.
A 2 x 6 will work for most homes it should be at least as thick as the trim.
Using a level draw a horizontal line the length of the sliding door track step two.
Measure up from the floor the length of the door plus an inch and a quarter.
How to hang a sliding barn door.
Secure a 2 4 across the center of the line you drew in step one.
Then take them to the drill press or use a drill to drill the holes for the carriage bolts.
2 flat steel track track joint brackets spacers screws lag bolts carriage bolts hanger rollers bottom roller guide and bottom rollers.