How To Make A Sliding Door With 1 X 4

Sliding doors seem like the logical solution thus.

How to make a sliding door with 1 x 4.

We started by picking everbilt sliding door hardware available at home depot. Put two 47 pieces aside to use later. Cut width pieces 3 of them 1 6 boards to fit inside your length pieces. Here s how i did it with a little help from my partner in crime.

Cut cross boards 1 4 boards to make your x. But if you are on a low budget the possibilities for buying a sliding door are near to nothing. Doors don t come cheap especially sliding ones. I made a custom modern sliding barn door for my parents new house in one weekend.

Screw together the two 8 pieces and two 47 pieces to make a rectangle. Our door is 8 tall so we cut two 8 pieces and four 47 pieces. Cut your two sheets of plywood usually available in 4 feet wide by 8 feet long into the exact dimensions of the wood frame which will also be the dimensions of your diy sliding door. Attach using 8 x 1 1 4 screws.

We read the instructions and sketched a simple plan of what we wanted the door to look like. But it is a good method of separating two different spaces without the problem of the space a door would need to get opened. The main structure of the door is a piece of plywood to achieve the thickness needed for the hangers we bought 1x3 lumber to make a frame. Getting these cuts perfect proved to be somewhat.