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GrittyCowgirl Reg. Nov 2009	Posted 2015-09-07 10:26 PM Subject: DIY dutch door help... would love to see pics of your diys.
Elite Veteran 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. Edited by GrittyCowgirl 2015-09-08 12:10 PM
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komet. Reg. Jun 2012	Posted 2015-09-08 12:16 AM Subject: RE: DIY dutch door help...
Expert Posts: 4121 Location: SE Louisiana	I'm pretty sure the supports for the header have to go all the way to the joist..
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Itsme Reg. Jul 2013	Posted 2015-09-08 8:05 AM Subject: RE: DIY dutch door help...
Expert 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. Edited by Itsme 2015-09-08 8:07 AM
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GrittyCowgirl Reg. Nov 2009	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.
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Ridenrun4745 Reg. Sep 2010	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: Edited by Ridenrun4745 2015-09-08 9:00 PM (IMG_2532.jpg) (IMG_1510 (1).jpg) Attachments ---------------- IMG_2532.jpg (36KB - 182 downloads) IMG_1510 (1).jpg (32KB - 181 downloads)
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GrittyCowgirl Reg. Nov 2009	Posted 2015-09-09 9:31 AM Subject: RE: DIY dutch door help... would love to see pics of your diys.
Elite Veteran Posts: 683 Location: Ohio	Thank you!
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spanky Reg. Jun 2010	Posted 2015-09-09 12:13 PM Subject: RE: DIY dutch door help... would love to see pics of your diys.
Veteran Posts: 161 Location: Right Where I'm Meant To Be :)	My husband says the support on hinge side should go all the way up to the header . Hope that helps! Edited by spanky 2015-09-09 12:14 PM
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