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Making interior sliding doors

8 years ago

Hello all

We are building our own house, and to save $ will be making our own doors. There will be at least 10 doors. Well be making them about 230 cm high. They will have lexan or some other large opaque plastic center panel, possibly with a kickboard along the bottom. We'll mount V rails in the flooring, and wheels inset under the door.

We have a bunch of old, yet well hand-made shorter doors (about 180cm) that we could recycle with some modifications. They have MT type joints at the corners. I would need to join 2 doors along the thin edge somehow to accomplish this. Or create a lower kickboard portion and splice it in.

Or I could scratch build them. I saw a kind of overlap corner design made from 12mm plywood strips that looked doable.

Any ideas?

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klem1
8 years ago
I must say if your talent is equal to your determination and desire , anything I could say would sound elementary.
rwiegand
8 years ago
I suspect you'll be happier in the long run if you hang your doors from above rather than having a track in the floor creating a trip hazard and place for dirt to gather. You can use either pocket door hardware or barn door type sliders.
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jeff2718, The Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Cary, NC has absolutely beautiful "barndoors" in their Governors Room. Although the term "barndoors" is very misleading in this case. I can email you the pics I took, if you like (I haven't figured out how to post pics on GW yet). Their doors are very formal with leaded glass in the upper half and solid panelled wood on the bottom half. I even took pics of the track they are on in hopes of being able to find them. Then I went to a local building supply company and they were showing me just their regular interior doors and I noticed that all those doors were mounted on the same type of track on the ceiling allowing each individual door to slide out to be shown then slide it back in place when done! Basically with this type of track its just a pocket door track mounted to the ceiling on the exterior side of the finished wall (vs. between the sheetrock) There are rollers mounted to the top of the door that fit in the track. Then you simply mount your trim in front of the track so it's hidden from view and voila, you've got a formal, unobstrusive sliding door that's beautiful whether open or closed.
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theniceguy
Original Author
8 years ago
The hardware is already decided on, its flush mounted V-rail tracks in the flooring.

I guess I was just looking for any advice or plans. I can kind of muddle through. Cant seem to find the Instructable for the ply doors. Great looking strong easy doors, guy has a tug boat or something too.
theniceguy
Original Author
8 years ago
How about paint? Can latex be used, or will it bleed/flake?

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