Sliding Barn Door Hitting Trim

I pulled the door away from the wall in these first two photos so that you could see it.

Sliding barn door hitting trim.

It also helps make sure the back of the brackets attached to the top of the door won t ever. Barn door installation without removing door trim attach the rail next we attached the sliding black rail to the wall. I m going to install a sliding door on a master ensuite closet opening. The caster helps push out the bottom of the door juuuust enough so that it won t bang against the wall behind it.

I know that people typically extend the header to encompass the full length of the rail. 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. 10 steel single track board trim. We then fastened to the door sliding track and soft close feature to prevent the door from slamming open or closed.

We mounted a little caster to the baseboard behind the left side of the sliding door yesterday. Instead of fastening the barn door rail to drywall first screw a ledger board to the wall studs for a sturdier mounting surface that allows the hanging door to clear the door frame. The sliding door track cover conceals the door track serves as a sliding door flashing and the hemmed edge locks into the door track flashing tab brackets. Steel inside corner trim.

We ve lived in our home for 2 years this august and i ve known all along that adding trim to the sliding door was something i wanted to do.