Pocket Door New Wall

A pocket door is the perfect solution for closing off an open section of your home or office or adding a quick way to move from room to room where a wall currently exists.

Pocket door new wall. Pocket doors solve that problem. When open a swinging door occupies wall space equal to its width usually 32 36 for an interior door. In small rooms where wall space is at a premium for furniture placement storage or hanging art pocket doors solve the dilemma. The wall needs to be wide enough to accommodate twice the door s width plus 1 inch 2 54cm.

You ll also need to know whether or not the wall is load bearing. Today s pocket door hardware uses nylon rollers on box style metal tracks for smoother operation and track jumping is rare. These doors disappear into the wall when opened rather than taking up space in one room or the other. Determine whether or not the wall you ve chosen for pocket door installation is a good candidate.

Todd and i both have had to pry our cantankerous living room pocket doors out of the wall but after researching modern options we found the same wasn t true of the new breed of pocket doors. Glue and screw together the 2 by 4s to build a pony wall a smaller non load bearing wall for hanging the track for the pocket doors. You can determine this by the wall s placement in the house. Attach to the ceiling by screwing through the frame into the ceiling joists.