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How to hang a barn door track.
Measure up from the floor the length of the door plus an inch and a quarter.
Learn how to create your own barn and commercial sliding door systems with 3 easy steps.
Using a level draw a horizontal line the length of the sliding door track step two.
Be sure to drill your screws into studs so as to ensure the tracking.
Hang the door the last step to installing your barn door track is to finally hang your door from the hanger rollers and line it up onto the track.
Make sure there s no bend in the track and that all of your components are level and secure before opening and closing your door.
Secure a 2 4 across the center of the line you drew in step one.
It should be tall enough so that when it s hung on the track there is about 1 2 inch of space between the bottom of the door and the floor.
This is the total length for your barn door track.
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The tracks should be exactly as long as the section along which you wish the door to slide.
Here is the link to build one.
To secure the track to the wall and add support for the heavy barn door cut a 1 x 4 mounting board the same length as but a little wider than the track.
Use the drywall anchors spacers and lag bolts to secure the mounting board.
If the track in your barn door hardware kit is longer then use a hacksaw to cut an even amount of track off each side.
Use joint brackets to attach sections of track as needed.
If installing two sliding doors remember that the tracks should be twice as wide as each door so that you can slide two doors together.
Alright this is another tricky one so bear with me.
Determine where to put the track.
How to hang a sliding barn door.