I put up a barn door and there is about an inch gap from the door to the wall trim in both sides.
How to cover gap in barn door.
Should i add strips to the door itself or build out the trim.
Best my contractor and i can guess i will have 1 2 gap when the doors are closed or pulled together the space has to be there to allow for clearance as the door slides.
Install the soft close mechanisms before hanging the door slabs.
Or you can get a track joiner if you want the doors to be able to slide to either side.
How can i fill this in so you cant see into the room.
Our front door entry is barndoors leading to a vestibule with french doors.
You can modify a door stop included to cover the gap between rails if you prefer a seamless look.
The resulting space is remarkably clean and open.
Gap is extra because i had to use a header strip to install.
This step may not be included in your hardware instructions if you bought them separately.
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Glue nail some flat molding wood with a 1 4 overlap on the door to cover the gap.
Then cut 1x6 boards to span the gap between those two boards vertically.
The grey wall against the vertical proposed barn door in red is a column so i can t drill into it not allowed so i was wondering if there was a way to attach the barn door hardware to the ceiling.
And i have a barn door to my ba from our mbr.
Screw a board to the bottom of the door you will have to remove the door.
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For the bottom we counter sunk the finger pull and then drilled a countersunk hole for the handle.
For the front layer cut two 1x6 boards to span the width of your door space and attach at the top and bottom of the back layer.
I am in the process of purchasing barn door hardware and will be installing doors on this hardware.
Id leave it alone.
Eventually just gluing the finger pull in place along with caulking around the edges.
You can narrow the gap but you won t have true privacy or sound proofing with a barn door period.
For the back layer use as many 1x6 boards as needed to cover the gap of your door.
The top hole for the handle was a simple we just counter sunk the screw into the hole.