Trim Around Barn Door Opening

In instances where casing is present we recommend building the door to the same size as the opening casing.

Trim around barn door opening.

We removed the standard sized existing basement door as well as the door hinges. Barn doors step 1. Mark the stud locations hold the. Remove the inner trim.

We recommend 1 1 2 to 2 of overhang on each side. We cut the side trim pieces to size and attached them to the side of the barn door with 1 1 4 brad nails and wood glue. The nice thing about the jeld wen barn door kit is you can install the door right over your existing door trim. Since in most cases there will be an installed continuous base trim piece that means that there will be a gap between the barn door and the jamb sides and head top of the door equal to the depth of the base trim.

I know that people typically extend the header to encompass the full length of the rail. You can find our favorite brad nailer here. In this example the total width is 38. Prime and paint the backer board there should be one inch of space between the barn door and the wall frame.

Locate the studs use the stud finder to locate and mark the studs above the door. Taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy. Once the side trim was attached we measured and cut the bottom trim to size and attached it with wood glue and 1 1 4 brad nails. The opening will have full trim with 3 5 side casing and a 5 5 header see pic for an example of another door trimmed the same way.

The height is a bit trickier based on the casing and header. You do not need to remove the trim. There s a peg in the top. Removing the doors door hardware.

30 opening 34 wide door. Trimmed or cased opening width. In every doorway there s a piece of trim running in the middle that keeps the door from. Since the door sits off the wall in order to slide it must be wider that the opening to fully hide the opening.

For single doors start about. Barn door installation without removing door trim just a quick spackle.