The idea doesn’t look pretty right this moment, but it’ll look better when it’s finished.
The great thing about this system is that each of the moving/rolling parts are actually in the square rail. That means that this hardware can often be painted any color you would like, and there will be no usage that will rub the paint off as time passes. I’ll be painting the door brackets black so that they’ll blend in by using my doors, and everything else will be covered entirely when everything is done.
So here are the details on this barn door hardware, along with how I installed it…
Primary, I installed very uncomplicated door casing around my door. Then above the most notable casing, I attached a 10-foot 1″ x 6″ little bit of lumber using 3-inch framing fingernails. (Lots of them! ) This became originally an exterior walls, so this wall is definitely load-bearing, and this doorway features a solid wood header above it. My walls can also be lined with shiplap beneath the drywall. So WHEN I shot the nails around at random, knowing in which wherever I placed these people, I’d be hitting solid wood. So if your situation is different (which is very likely), you definitely ought to screw or nail that into studs.
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And then because my doors are usually thicker than standard panels, and I needed to be certain there was plenty regarding clearance for my doorways to slide past the door casings, I added another 1″ back button 6″ x 10′ piece of lumber over the first one, for a second time attaching it with 3-inch framing nails. Before I attached this specific second board, I marked and measured the place that the bottom of the metal rail necessary to be, and I stalled the board to ensure the bottom of the board could be perfectly lined up while using bottom of the track.
And then I attached the rail to the 1″ x 6″ table. Because I was fitting a 10-foot track using a wall that’s only three inches wider as opposed to rail, I had to pre-assemble this wheel/door bracket assembly and place them into your track before installing that track.
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That definitely made things far more challenging. I was setting up this by myself, plus the whole thing was very heavy. Those wheels move backward and forward very easily, and so they kept sliding backwards and forwards, throwing me off balance. Holding that rail " up " with one hand and attempting to screw in the primary screw was almost a lot of for me to do on my very own, but I finally bought it. In order to perform it by myself, Pondered to mark and measure the location where the first lag screw was required to go (I started using the middle one), and then pre-drill the hole beforehand. That way when I climbed through to the ladder and presented the metal track available as one hand, while holding the drill from the other, I knew where by that lag bolt necessary to go. It was very hard, and I definitely suggest having someone assist you to install this hardware.