I recently bought a small farm. I have a horse barn that is two years old. I am in the process of converting this horse barn into a woodworking shop. The barn has no doors. I am looking for plans for building barn doors. Any suggestions on the best way to build doors? The barn is approximately 30x50.

-- Thomas L. Maddux (Thomas.Maddux@ORM.VA.GOV), August 09, 2001

Answers

Thomas, I bought a book last year on building all kinds of doors. It's at home and I'm at work and I don't remember the exact name. I will get the particulars to you tomorrow. It's really quite a good book, with lots of ideas and the drawings to go with them.

-- Steve in So. WI (alpine1@prodigy.net), August 09, 2001.

Build It Better Yourself by Rodale Press (Organic Gardening magazine) has some good information. We have three types of doors on our barn; sliding, entry, and dutch. I couldn't be without any one of them. The sliding door allows you to bring in large loads (lumber?), the entry door speaks for its self and the dutch door occasionally acts as a window and ventilation were we needed another door and couldn't put in a window.

-- Nancy Bakke-McGonigle MN. Sunset (dmcgonig@smig.net), August 09, 2001.