Trim Around Barn Door Opening

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.

Trim around barn door opening.

Prime and paint the backer board there should be one inch of space between the barn door and the wall frame. 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. How to frame a doorway for barn doors step 1. Since the door sits off the wall in order to slide it must be wider that the opening to fully hide the opening.

In instances where casing is present we recommend building the door to the same size as the opening casing. Taking off the doors should be surprisingly easy. Barn door installation without removing door trim just a quick spackle. There s a peg in the top.

30 opening 34 wide door. Mark the stud locations hold the. Barn doors step 1. You can find our favorite brad nailer here.

The height is a bit trickier based on the casing and header. In every doorway there s a piece of trim running in the middle that keeps the door from. Measure from the outside of the casing to the outside of the casing for the door width. For single doors start about.

You do not need to remove the trim. 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 nice thing about the jeld wen barn door kit is you can install the door right over your existing door trim. Removing the doors door hardware.

We recommend 1 1 2 to 2 of overhang on each side. Remove the inner trim. We removed the standard sized existing basement door as well as the door hinges. 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.

Trimmed or cased opening width. In this example the total width is 38.