Our measurement came to 43 inches next you ll want to determine the height you want your door to be.
How to build pair of antique hinged barn doors.
In this case you can just use the hinge to make the door swinging if you do not much time to install the rails.
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Arrange the vertical boards on a pair of 2x4s placed flat on sawhorses or the floor and arrange the 2x4s so they re lined up under the locations of the horizontal rails.
To start measure the width of your door opening from outside molding edge to outside molding edge and add 1 inch on each side for overlap.
Build a swinging barn door step 1 lay the 1 inch thick boards out on a flat surface pressed together tightly.
After completing interior finish work for the living quarters above a ground level boat building workshop the author was asked by to build two sets of barn doors one pair for an 8 foot square opening and another for a larger 12 foot square opening.
Screw scraps of wood to the 2x4s on both sides of the door to hold the boards together while you add the horizontal rail.
Space the boards top and bottom with pennies.
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Lay them on a bench or table so that the ends of the boards are hanging off the sides of the table with the undersides accessible.
We settled on 88 inches.
The final touches include a fabric banner and pillows.
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This is how i built low cost barn doors i also made low cost hinges i bought the basic hinge and cut 1 4 x2 x18 steel and drill the 3 8 holes lined up wit.
The last step of making a swing out garage doors is installing the door opener.
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Otherwise using rails will give sturdier garage doors and excellent durability because the doors will be opened by following the trails only.