How to build working barn door shutters for your home
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2022
- Build your own barn door shutters for your home. For us it took us a day and a half to complete and cost us right at $200 per window for wood and hardware.
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Awesome video. Thank you
These are exactly what I had in mind for our shutters. Thanks so much for sharing your diy project! ❤ They look amazing 😍
Great job. I love it.
Love the tutorial...just my speed... I understood everything :D Thank you.
Excellent tutorial!! Thanks
Great job!
I LOVE THESE! Especially when i heard you say it could have locks!
Thanks! We love them. Changes the looks, but hopefully adds functionality.
Great idea
Great job
Very nice!!!
That's an awesome idea! Good job!
Thank you!
They look so nice!
Thanks!
But I definitely love the idea and will be doing something similar to my house as we get hail ever year and I'm tired of replacing broken windows
Love this thank you
Thank you!
Beautiful job.
Thank you!
Thanks
Great creativity love the work gentlemen. One minor suggestion or something to keep in mind is vinyl siding was engineered to float. You can see “bad” siding jobs were the siding just doesn’t seem to wanna stay locked together that’s because someone nailed all, one, or some to tightly and didn’t float their nails in the center of nailing slots. If I was contracted to do this or doing it on my own home I would hremove the top run or 1 1/2 whatever is needed and replacing it with the “header board the entire length” one is creates visual continuity and two it prevents the siding from coming apart later down the road. You can router the very bottom edge of the new header board to allow it to overlap the very top of the siding to prevent impeding it’s movement
Great suggestion. Thanks for the tip.
Very nice.
Thanks!!
Having built many barn doors and windows before, all sliding doors / windows will require top rail stoppers at left, right and midpoint to prevent the panels over-sliding or swinging. This is more important when the sliding door/window installed outside where strong winds are expected
In the old days (before screws were cheap or even available) they would have "deadnailed" those together. Nail all the way through, then bend the nail over on the back side and hammer the point in to lock the nail in like a Rivet.
Glue and wooden pins was another popular method.
That's what I'm talking about... 😂Economical, and Using what you got to get it done. I think I still might look into this.
Any chance you could post a picture of how they look now? Great Video thanks!
Awesome project, I do see you added them to your picture window also. How did you deal with the width problem?
That's great. I want to do something like that. If I do, I'm going to make the top rail split into two pieces blocked off from each other. That way, the left shutter can't move further right than the middle, and visa-versa. I think a simple guiderail on the bottom with some kind of loop going around it might be better than the wheel. If the bottom guiderail was somehow sawtoothed, the shutters wouldn't move easily.
You don't need to split the rail into two pieces to accomplish this. A set screw (or pair) from the front will do the trick, or if you don't want it exposed then measure and put it in from the back before mounting the rail to the board.
Does the hardware have a lock to keep the doors from sliding side to side as one? Even if you locked them together in the center wouldn't the whole shutter just slide to the side exposing the window?
We added a lock to it in the center of the front. The wheels at the bottom will tighten up enough to hold it in the open or closed position. But I’m guessing you could come up with something to lock it down more if you wanted. For us it was more about the looks than anything, but we like the functionality option.
Oh my. I love this idea! I am putting some new windows in. I hope I can do this at my house. I have always wanted working shutters. We get hail, high winds, and tornadoes. These look so much better than those cheesy looking crap fake shutters.
There should be barn door stoppers at top rail; left, right and midpoint to prevent one or other door slide passed floor guide.
Does this help with heat?
I absolutely love the color of the stain. Can you please let me know which color you used? The shutters are perfect. Job well done!
Thank you! We just used a black outdoor stain from our local hardware store.
@@TheTrentTribe Thanks for your reply!
Are the rails your standard rails for barn doors or were they specifically for shutters?
I like the idea, for 2 reasons and one of them is bad. One because if a hurricane or hail storm comes, You can protect your home from damage like the windows. The other is for my preference, that I live in a neighborhood where someone will do ANYTHING to break into my home to steal what I have. That I wanna ask, can you install locks on the inner side, so that they cannot have any way to open it other then from the inside?
It would have been helpful if you added the hardware info or link to the descriptions. But thank for the video
How can I see the supply list?
How long after you buy the pressure treatment can you stain them ?? Heard you have to wait few weeks after purchasing???
I’ve seen all sorts of different advice. I did our first set almost a year ago and stained them the next day after buying and they look good still.
I’ve been wanting something to protect my windows in case of hurricane or hail storm. This is a great idea, thanks for sharing this!
When I go to “National Hardware” on Lowes website, am I looking up a kit of some sort, or do I need to know all the individual parts to get in order to put this together? If so, would you please list each of the parts I need to get? TI A🙏
You would be getting individual parts. You need a rail the length you want. Then the wheel assembly to attach to the top of your shutters and then the wheel that attaches to the house/wall to guide your shutters and keep them from flapping. I don’t have item numbers though because the rails come in different lengths, the wheels for the top of the shutter also come in different styles and the guide has two different types. It’s really up to you which of all of those you’d prefer to work with.
What store did you buy the hardware and rails from?
You can get them from Lowe’s and Tractor Supply. Check their prices, at the time we got them TS was less expensive.
Which barndoor kit did you buy?
We used the National Hardware brand. Shop it because some places had certain parts cheaper, like Lowe’s had the rollers and smaller hardware the cheapest while Tractor Supply had the rails cheaper. So we bought based on price because the rails were a lot less expensive at Tractor Supply. You might want to check with a local Ace Hardware as well.
How do they look from the inside closed?
They darken the room quite a bit. Probably even more if we’d stained the back, which still is doable. But we rarely shut them. If we were to begin shutting them a lot, I’d probably stain the inside.
Did you use a level?
We made sure it was level before drilling the bolts in, but we primarily went with the house up under the awning.
Help me order the parts ?
Is it $200 per window or to do all the windows in your video? How many windows did you do?
That was $200 per window for us. We have four windows like this on our front and then we have a double set in the center of the front. That one was done almost a year ago and it was a little more because of the size.
I went to lowes website & to order the National hardware stuff I need to do to windows just like you did is $365 is that what you paid for just the hardware?
I got the tracks for less at Tractor Supply. Bought the rest from Lowes. Hope that helps. It may be higher now than when we did it. I had watched and it was going down when we bought it, but given how things are these days, it can change in a second. Lol
Would anyone be so kind to post a list of materials for this?
I should have when I shared the video. I can tell you the best deal at the time for the rails was Tractor Supply, but you can get them at Lowe’s as well. It needs to be a galvanized, outdoor barn rail. The other hardware all come from Lowe’s. That would include the barn door wheels, the wheel stopper for the bottom of the shutters so they won’t swing out and also the handles/locks for the shutters.
I’m willing to bet if you added something like “for those who are not good at geometry” do the title you would generate a lot more views
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Do you have the links to the hardware? Was the mounting rods that the wheels slide on included ? And was that apx 200$ for both windows or just one? Sorry for the questions…
Just go to Lowes website and search “National Hardware” and you’ll find all of the hardware you need. It was $200 per window for everything we used, lumber and hardware.
For one window $200 dollars
That’s what it cost us yes
@@TheTrentTribe love it good job
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