The boards should be as long as the doors and about 1 inch or 4 cm wider than the track.
Inside barn door installation.
Prime and paint the backer board there should be one inch of space between the barn door and the wall frame.
Barn doors step 1.
Mark the stud locations hold the.
Locate the studs use the stud finder to locate and mark the studs above the door.
And last but not least one of the most appealing factors of a barn door is that they re a fairly simple diy project.
Here is a brief synopsis of what is involved lessons learned.
Measure and cut two lengths of mounting board for each barn door.
We recently removed a pocket door and left the doorway open as we knew we were going to install one in that location.
Attach the mounting boards to the top and bottom of the doorway using drywall anchors and ensure that the mounting boards run straight along the doorway.