How To Make Pocket Sliding Doors

In the case of pocket sliding doors smaller section timbers eg 50mm x 50mm can be used if preferred to create a slimmer stud wall.

How to make pocket sliding doors.

Use a reciprocating saw and metalcutting. How to build a pocket door step 1 remove the molding. Build the frame you don t need an architect s plans to build a door you just need a drill or even less a screw driver. Drill two pocket holes at each end of the upper and middle rails as shown and three at each end of the wider bottom rail.

Step 3 install the door. Construct the rough opening or modify the existing wall to fit the rough opening dimensions for the door jamb supplied. First check that there s enough room in the wall you need a rough opening that s just over twice. The basic construction process can be simplified as follows.

Be sure and remove the wood shims while you are removing the molding. Installation of the top and bottom tracks and the door s. That being said follow the list below for the standard process on how to install a pocket door. First make a wooden frame that is the same dimension as your masonite using the diagram above to assemble your 2 2 boards with one screw joining each board.

Reset the jig along the other edge and repeat. The first step in installing a pocket door is to pry off the existing molding with a pry bar. How to install a sliding pocket door cut the opening. Construction of the first side of the stud wall.

Clamp a pocket hole jig at the end of a rail even with one edge and use the kit bit to drill a hole. Tools required to complete this project circular saw http amzn to 1osfhdq impact driver http amzn to 1jitse0 level http amzn to 1wtqg0n stanley.