{"id":4452,"date":"2011-06-01T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2011\/06\/01\/closet-door-a-palooza\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T21:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:00:49","slug":"closet-door-a-palooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2011\/06\/01\/closet-door-a-palooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Closet-door-a-palooza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Closet-door-a-palooza is what Casie called this past weekend… and while it wasn't "palooza"-worthy, we did end up finishing the doors for the hall closet.<\/p>\n

The old doors were beat… and had been sitting outside for four years. We had purchased wood and supplies last year but are now just getting into a place where we could tackle the project.<\/p>\n

While I had envisioned how to make these for months, for starters, I made a small prototype which helped to bring it to life a bit.<\/p>\n

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The design was pretty simple and very similar to the original \u2014 a simple channel (3\/8in sq) was rabbetted into one side. Ideally, this would be done using a dado blade, but I set the table saw to make two passes to cut the chunk out which worked pretty well (and we now have a ton of kindling). From there, it was like assembling a Lincoln Log house: top, bottom and stiles. We used pocket screws to hold the stiles (the up\/down parts) to the top and bottom rails and used glue and staples to hold in the thinner center rails… a pretty solid construction. The trickiest part was the double-rabbet needed for the rails \u2014 a dado would have been easier and safer here.<\/p>\n

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One of the hardest parts was hanging the doors. With the built-in "skirt" (or fascia) hiding the original track, getting a new track to work was problematic. The old door\/track design (which used custom, builder-made tracks) just lifted into place whereas newer systems necessitates you to tip and swing the door onto the track… which was difficult with the skirt in the way as it prevented the door from swinging out far enough. After a failed hanging attempt, we discovered we needed to hang the track 1-1\/2in lower and 3\/4in back which allowed enough room for the doors to swing in. Kre8 has a pretty good explanation<\/a> of this.<\/p>\n

Once we figure all of this out, we just needed to create doors the correct height, cover the panels with grass-cloth and hang.<\/p>\n

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Some notes:<\/p>\n