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 pole barn door overlap.
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Sliding doors are a popular option for post frame buildings.
When sliding barn door hardware gets old and rusted it becomes a struggle to get your barn door open and closed.
This application is great for areas where barn doors are desired but there isn t adequate room on either side of the opening for the door to slide.
The best door system for a center aisle barn is a split slider double sliding door which is hung on rollers trolleys and slides on a track.
Extend track board from end to end for support for full length door opening.
What you need to remember when building this kind of door is to make your door 6 wider than the width of your aisle.
Place track board so top of 2x4 is flush with line from center of post jamb to end of door in open position.
Place 2x6 track board with top edge flush with chalk line.
Snap chalk line across header bottom chord of truss.
Sliding doors are available in many sizes and can be solid or split into two sections.
In this application the doors overlap and slide over one another so that half of the opening is accessible at any time.
The final option is bypass doors.