Building Pole Barn Sliding Doors

Dear pole barn guru.

Building pole barn sliding doors.

Not only do they tie the look together for your pole barn they also have a major impact on its functionality. Installing siding before sliding door. Because barn doors are so much larger than normal doors you need to take weight and support into account more seriously. Building door for a center aisle barn.

The best answer to your question is chapter 27 of the hansen pole buildings construction manual. Oversized equipment and machinery demanding large openings have encouraged the use of sliding doors for years. Typical agricultural pole barn kits have one or two sliding doors most commonly placed on the gable ends of the building although they can be located on the eave walls as well. Sliding doors are available in many sizes and can be solid or split into two sections.

What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle. We hope this helps you build sliding barn door for your farm building. Sliding doors are a popular option for post frame buildings. This is going to be a two part series.

How does one construct a sliding barn door. 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. Here it is in three parts part i. Barn doors that swing out need to be mounted on very large and strong hinges and sliding barn doors need to be properly balanced and hung on high quality hardware in order to work properly.

Snap chalk line. Expecting the door frame to be shipped pre assembled. A sliding barn door is reliable against the abuse from animals and the elements. We have an awesome building project for you today.

When building a pole barn for any purpose one of the most important decisions you can make is the type of door you will be using. Kwik frame type sliding barn doors measure 5 1 2 up from the bottom of header at each jamb post. Historically sliding barn doors have been the reliable answer for agricultural buildings shops and airplane hangars. Shirley in fair grove dear shirley.

Doors are a critical part of solidifying lester s lifetime structural design warranty so much so that we design and manufacture our own sliding steel doors the only wind rated ones on the market to building loads. We sell economical pole barn kits for farm and ranch.