We re building sliding barn doors.
How to build a sliding gate door.
I had no trouble obtaining most of the hardware from any number of fence and gate companies apart from a suitable latch.
Gate components apart from the gate i needed a track wheels guide rollers and some sort of latch the locking device on a door or window.
That would hold the gate closed.
I decided to design my own.
Diy sliding gate kit includes the sliding gate frame post wheels track and if required a sliding gate motor low voltage kit which can be powered by 12v upto 50 mtrs away.
Picture below the kit cost 1850 and they saved over 3000 by doing it themselves.
This is going to be a two part series.
The first sharing how to build the barn door and the second will be talking about barn door hardware and installation in our attic family room.
The existing gates were only a couple of years old and still worked fine you can see the making of them here but because of an uphill driveway they were aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate.
Make a steel tubing fence gate from making the frame to complete welding.
Once the joinery is assembled with glue and screws attach the deckboards to the frame hang the finished gate with heavy duty gate hinges and swing the door open to let in the fun.