Making A Cross Brace Barn Door

Now you know how to build a diy barn door.

Making a cross brace barn door.

Attach the door boards to each other using horizontal brace boards a few inches from the top and bottom of the door. Choose the guide that works best for your door. Cut the boards inch shorter than the height of the opening to allow the door to pass over the floor guide. 1x6 pine boards for the back.

The simplest guide is an l shaped metal bracket that mounts to the floor and fits into a groove cut in the bottom of the door. We often make wooden doors that match our wooden gates or garage doors. Compression braces are suitable for doors where the angle between the bottom rail and the brace is greater than 45 make sure both ends of the brace have full contact with the rails put ideally two nails screws through each board into the brace. A ledged and braced door is based on at least three horizontal rails ledges on the rear of the door a diagonal brace again on the rear of the door and then as many vertical boards as needed to make the front face of the door.

This is going to work as a brace for the door. Place one of the cross brace pieces under the frame exactly where you want it using bits of scrap to support the door frame and hold it level on top of the cross piece. These could help keep hold your door square but this isn t guaranteed. Make the door frame to fit the opening assemble the frame only no batten boards no cross braces.

It must be said that a ledged and braced. Use an impact driver to screw the screws through the 1 6 s in each of the 4 boards which make up the door. If you want a wider opening and a double door gate isn t sufficient do some research into stronger metal brackets. Fasten the brace boards to each door board with deck screws measuring 1 4 inch less than the combined thickness of the brace board and door boards.

To ensure your cross brace s angle stays greater than 45 degrees the height of your door has to be greater than the width.