Posted 2015-09-07 10:26 PM Subject: DIY dutch door help... would love to see pics of your diys.
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Posts: 683 Location: Ohio
Redoing an old metal pole barn and want to add dutch doors to the back side of stalls for turnouts. Everything is stripped out right now to just metal siding and support beams so I figured it would be easier to do them now rather than with stalls and kick boards already up. Husband is pretty handy but unsure about how to go about framing the actual doorways. All of the doors will be in between the main support beams so would you use 4x4's set like posts and screw the metal siding and horizontal boards into them from the outside in? Hopefully the pictures helps explain... not our barn but identical minus the concrete floors.
Please excuse the typos and grammar errors. It's late and I'm too tired to care.
Posted 2015-09-08 8:05 AM Subject: RE: DIY dutch door help...
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Posts: 1561
The new boards you marked green will support the "yellow" perlins.
I would nail 2-2x6s in an "L" shape that go from the concrete to the 2x12? spanning the top, it needs to be anchored to the concrete (metal L bracket) to stop any in and out motion and attached to the 2x12 above to help keep everything stabilized and shored.
Posted 2015-09-08 12:09 PM Subject: RE: DIY dutch door help...
Elite Veteran
Posts: 683 Location: Ohio
We don't have the concrete floors so no anchoring needed. Does anyone have pics they could share of their dutch doors? I've been having trouble finding any tutorials or how to online. Would love to see ones that weren't professionally done with kits.
Posted 2015-09-08 8:57 PM Subject: RE: DIY dutch door help... would love to see pics of your diys.
Expert
Posts: 1543 Location: MI
I have one...we had the doorway roughed in with the barn (metal pole building and dirt floor), up against a support post, and then built a door that we turned into a dutch door...it's too dark to take pictures now, but I have a few poor pictures with the door in the background:
DIY dutch door help... would love to see pics of your diys.
