10 pieces of tongue and groove pine 8 ft tall or however tall you want it it comes in 6 ft 8 ft and 12 ft at home depot.
Making a tongue and groove barn door.
Step 2 installing the tongue groove board to back of barn door.
I also like this board because it has.
How to build a board and batten door video materials used for board and batten doors.
In the next step the tongue and groove boards will cover the pocket screw holes so there s no need to fill them.
Here is what we used to make our barn door.
I purchased mine at lowe s for 5 58 each and used 8 boards for the door 3 for the frame and 2 for the british brace arrow look so 13 total per door.
Our door opening is 4 wide so we built ours to be 4 wide and 7 tall.
My barn door will be using the 79 or 6 foot 7 inch kit from industrial by design that accommodates a maximum door opening size of 38 or smaller.
With the right bracing a door made from tongue and groove wood is solid and will hold up over the years.
Since i wanted my door to be 37 inches wide to cover the opening and my 6 pieces of 1x6 inch tongue and groove which really measures 75 x 5 5 inches only measures to 33 inches when assembled 5 5 x 6 33 my 7th tongue and groove board needs to be cut down the middle using a table saw to two 2 inch pieces.
How to build a sliding barn door.
Lay all of your pine tongue and groove out.
We used this one which i was estatic to find because it was about 5 per board.
Build and install a sliding barn door.
I would purchase a few extra just in case you make a mistake.
Materials for building a tongue and groove barn door.
Batten doors can be made with tongue and groove doors ship lap or simple boards that are typically suitable for outdoor use.
The next step to building the barn door was installing the rough sawn tongue and groove boards to the back of the face frame.
Start by building a door for a 36 inch opening with typical 4 by 96 inch tongue and groove wood.
Tongue and groove and ship lad doors offer weather resistance by closing the seams off.
Diy barn doors step 1 selecting the material.
The tongue and groove boards not only look great but add a tremendous amount of strength to the overall piece.
Build the door as a blank and then cut it down on a table saw to make it fit the opening.
The tongue and groove shiplap is the base of our door so we trimmed each of those planks to 7 tall.