Building a Modern Sliding Barn Door

hey what's going on guys out to Mizzou Canyon for mr. bilder and in today's video I will show you how I made this very modern sliding barn door for a hundred fifty bucks and you know what that's included with the hardware it's a perfect project for a beginner that can tackle it over in the weekend so without wasting time let me show you how I did it and you know what let's get into the video for the sliding door in order to keep the expenses low I decided to go with a 1 by 2 common wood now this is the stuff that's the inexpensive wood that you could find in your local Home Depot in the lumber section I bought 15 8 foot long pieces basically around 36 bucks or so ripped them or split them on my table saw into 1 by 1 inch strips I would put on some tunes this might take you a little bit to accomplish for the backboard or the actual part that will make the actual door I needed something that would stain as evenly or as close to the common wood as possible so I went with the always trusty four by eight sheet of maple plywood costing about 55 bucks for 4 by 8 GB so I'm doing a little bit of a doodling here to get my pattern all figured out so this is kind of like the the general idea of the door so I'm gonna take a bunch of these 1 by twos and I might have to end up stripping them in half even more I was hoping not to have to kind of because so much easier just to buy this stuff and putting together but it's facing will be so much more perfect so we learned from these kind of things this is all a prototype so I'm gonna throw it on my table side and start ripping all these 1 by T 2's into 3/4 inch pieces I guess let's go and then I secured the strips with wood glue and one and a quarter inch Brad nails so it's important to use the lengths that I'm actually using this project that way the Brad nails won't go through the backside of the plywood trust me it'll make for a really bad day and are really we door the rest of the three hours was all angles and repetition you don't need to use protractor just a simple T bevel mitre measuring tool they're about twelve bucks or so allows for you to match the required angle and match the angle up to your miter saw to make the cut I would feel comfortable saying that this project was basically three different angles so I had to basically set out on my sauce so nothing too crazy is just repetition the best strategies to use a scrap piece of 1x1 as a spacer block between each piece to keep all of the pieces symmetrical and then have the pieces overhang off of the plywood once they're all secured roughly trimmed them a bit with a circular saw that way there it won't be in the way especially when you're working with small garages like I am so far the probably just kind of really good all the joints are lining up pretty well certain joints like this they only go well I need 65 degrees maybe a little bit more my miter saw over there only goes to about 60 no big deal I took a little standard took a little bit of that edge off you know somewhere like that to make it look flush but so far so good I don't I think there's gonna be one of those good projects Oh cigarettes when we try to make [Music] promise [Music] we can be [Music] we can't be [Music] and when you are finally done and assembled everything use a straight edge or a tracks off you fancy like that and trim to size the door to the actual dimension you want it keep in mind you want it to overlap a few inches left right and top to bottom that way you're actually including all the space now we are ready to beautify this door with a frame around it for the frame I trimmed a few pieces down to an inch and a half wide and cut the ends to 45 degree miter 's and secured with plenty of wood glue and Brad nails now to get a quick and even application of wood glue I'm using a wood glue bottle dispenser with a brush attachment from Rockler which doesn't require for me to use my fingers or anything else to spread the wood glue before it starts falling on the ground oh one of my favourite products again I'll link that in description if you guys to check out very inexpensive [Music] now for the actual stain I'm using a color called fruit root by coming to called Minwax it's almost at every single store really easy to get a can of this is like 7 bucks I'm applying it using a foam brush one that I had is maybe to avoid getting in the nuking crannies putting the stuff into a spray bottle and spray it on I've done stuff like that before it just gets a little messy but that's definitely an option you guys have I only did one coat and then I just removed everything else with a rag [Music] we promised wanker just [Music] we can be [Music] we can't be [Music] all right so this is the other side of the door the inside part of the obviously the bathroom the outside no issue to open it but the inside we're gonna have a little bit of problem trying to open it up so we need some hardware I picked up these 1 by 3 flush pulls I think I'm just gonna have to use a router to kind of cut in what is that like a half an inch into it and then screw down with these screws and that way we'll have a nice clean subtle it's a little opener so that's why we do [Music] to a place long time ago when I kissed your lid I can sneeze a fire that may just save us when we try to make up I said the things we promised not to say them to break up [Music] what do you think you don't like it should I start all over you so mean I don't know if you have ever installed a sliding door before but to keep the door from flapping front to back when opening you need to create a quarter inch wide by half inch deep channel to run on top of a guide that will be screwed down to the ground basically like a rail for it to find the perfect middle I use a center marking gauge from Rockler the sweet quick little tool that feeds a pencil through it and scribes the middle and then you can use a router with a guide or a circular saw with a few passes to create the best said channel to protect this beautiful stain from rubbing off as you know constant driving of the door I sprayed four coats of a water-based satin polyurethane which is basically a clear coat using a very inexpensive HVLP sprayer htlv just stands for high velocity low pressure so something easy enough for you to put something simple that's doesn t diluting and be able to spray it on pretty quick and easily alright pretty exciting day today because the hardware spoiler here I heard a UPS truck so hopefully a stereo [Music] when the hardware came in I laid out where the hangers would sit and marked out the holes and where they should go the most important part is to prevent the tear out in the plywood when drilling all the way through now to prevent this clamp a scrap piece of wood on the back side and then drill all the way through it trust me this trick legitimate works every time all right so overall here's the kit so we saw the actual hangers on the door these are the rails that is going to run by these two kind of click in like puzzle pieces these are the little spacers with the lag bolts now here's the most important part typically yes you could imagine just mountain these things straight to the drywall but the reason you want to do this one or two things number one drywall tends to sink all of your spacers into the wall as you push them in you don't want to do that it changes the gapping and number two you have trim board here so that is another space that's in the way so the solution is problem is you want to pick up some backer anything could be a back piece well the important part is used to be at least 1 by 4 or 1 by 6 and the most important part has to be real wood so when I throw this up there and then mount our railing to it this is probably my second time ever installing a sliding Hardware and I always learned something new every time but it always there's something in the way every single time some kind of heard we need to go over so the best things to always do to prepare is just make sure you identify all of your studs and where they are make sure you put the little backer piece a little hardware piece that the rail actually attaches to and then from that point on and make sure everything's leveled and you'll be just fine I can see the fire that may just save us when we try to make set the things we promise not to say them to break up [Music] well thank so much for watching this video if you guys like what you see like we didn't like this or the shower renderer himself make sure that subscribe but I comment share with your friends hey follow me on social media if you guys want to chat whatever have deeper questions get to know me I'll put a link down description below with all of our social media stuff I'm gonna go finish this and go make out my wife so tune out this week we'll see us next week see ya bye