This video was super helpful ive gotta scale up the design but its exactly how im going to build my 10' 6" by 20' doors thanks again for the video, Hancock county Maine.
Thanks. Installing carriage style doors on our new garage soon to be built. Your basic DIY build of your doors will be a strong inspiration. Great job and enjoyed your down home presentation. God Bless…
Great job and loved the keeping it real moment....my wife and I have done that too...identical didn't look identical... Bought a walipini guide and looking forward to seeing it soon The doors look great
We really appreciate your support through these years! And by the way, We use that nail puller on a regular basis! In fact, when Sean did the repair on that barn door, he used your nail puller to peel the nail plates off the frame. Worked like a charm!
The tracks and hardware came from the Cannonball company. While they do have an online store, their sales are typically done through a dealer, which is how we ordered originally.
So, I have a question. If you purchased 2Xs from the mill for your vertical planks, why did you not just send them through a band saw or table saw to split them into two 3/4" (minus your loss from the blade) boards, doubling your output instead of planing the boards down and only getting 1 board? That pile of saw dust seems quite wasteful to me?!?!?!
That’s a question that completely makes sense in most average situations. In our case, however, we mill our own lumber, so there’s no expense in purchasing the wood. And oak was something we had plenty of. Secondly, we actually use tons of shavings around our farm, and the planer shavings are also used in our compost toilets in the house, so that does not go to waste either. So in our case, every bit of it was used!
We have to make large exterior barn doors- 13/4" x 6/4" (double doors) 2 1/2" thick. One millwork shop quoted doors using Hemlock wood. I just want to know if Hemlock will work for exterior doors or am I over thinking this (my foreman) says so. I am worried the doors will bow and warp if the right wood is not used for an exterior door. But I see all these videos where people just using almost any wood and making doors. I guess its different because they are doing it for their own home/farm/barn compared to me doing it for another owner. Any suggestions will be helpful.
I’m afraid I have no experience with hemlock, so you would have to research that. What we found however, is that different woods stand up to weather and exterior conditions better than others. So I would not say that people just use any wood necessarily, but there are different woods for the conditions in that area. So research hemlock in your area, see if it stands up to the elements and weather conditions, and go from there. Once you’ve determined that, as far as the warping goes, we found the amount of drying time affects it, and the way you actually assemble the door will definitely affect it. You have to make sure the grain is turned properly and braced against the frame for support from future warping. Hope that helps
Hi - at 19:20 you show the doors closed and slightly angled away from each other. I have a similar situation and was wondering if you fixed it or just left it like that. Obviously you can push and pull it together to latch it closed, but I was hoping for some margin of error in the 1/4" range, instead of the 4" range :)
Yes, this was due to slight warping of the boards. We later purchased a center guide that mounted on the ground, more to control winds blowing the doors than anything. However, the guide actually allowed the doors to sit in it, which helped pull the wood into place. Granted the crooked door is a bit stiff to pull into place, but hopefully the wood will dry straighter and loosen up a bit with time. It looks normal though. www.menards.com/main/building-materials/pole-barn-post-frame-materials/pole-barn-post-frame-hardware/wood-door-center-guide/1556207/p-1444448480286-c-5718.htm
How do you keep the wind from blowing it off track? Is there a bottom rail? Thinking of doing something like this but only 8 or 9 foot tall. Worried that the wind from Southern afternoon thunderstorms will blow it off.
Yes, although we didn’t have it installed for this video, we installed a roller guide on the outside/bottom of each door and a center guide on the ground in the middle, where the closed doors meet. Although these work fine alone, we also installed a latch on the doors themselves. We have extremely strong winds at times, and have had absolutely no issues.
I’m not sure if you can tell in the video, but there is a nice overhang before the facia board. The doors simply slide right under the eaves. It was all intentionally sized that way, so it fits with no problem.
Oh! We haven’t actually installed ours yet, just due to time and budget constraints. That said, the brackets that connect the track to the wall are designed to attach the cover directly to. So the cover is attached to the brackets, not to the track itself. This keeps it off the track enough that there is no issue with the doors. Hopefully that makes sense.
How do I know exactly what you are using to build this? I want to use the same hardware for the sliding door so I an follow you. I went to your Amazon Storefront and couldn't find anything. Where do I need to go to find out exactly what you used here.
If I recall correctly, they really only offer two options… The square track and the round, self cleaning version. We chose the self cleaning as our last farm had square, and it was always clogging. It was a pain to maintain! Once you select the style track, you prefer, you simply get the items such as the trolleys and door stops that are designed for that track. We pretty much stuck with the bare basics. I remember calling the customer service at one point, and they were extremely helpful to make sure I got all the right supplies.
