Floor to ceiling sliding doors

[DazaW]

I'm thinking of creating a cupboard with sliding doors, floor-to-ceiling height, flat front, painted. Width just under 3m, so 3 or 4 doors total.

Top hung sliding runners are obtainable but what's the best door to use?

Would single sheets of 22 or 25mm MR MDF be ok, or too heavy and likely to warp?.

Perhaps a sandwich of say 9mm mdf/ply 22mm softwood frame 9mm mdf/ply (but would need to attempt to get it dead flat somehow).

Could buy door blanks, cut and re-lip, but would probably need to be 2440 X 1220 ones to start with which are probably too heavy for me to shift around and work with.

Companies offering made to measure sliding doors seem to be metal frames and look very wardrobe like (these will be in a hall).

Any ideas on the best approach?

Thanks.

 

[foxhole]

Lots of ready made sliding door kits , usually composite timber framed like mine .Weight sits on bottom track.

sliding doors

• foxhole
• 8 Sep 2009
• 19

 

[DazaW]

They look really nice, but what I really want for this purpose is a paintable flat slab front and haven't seen any off the shelf ones that don't look like wardrobe doors.

 

[foxhole]

They look really nice, but what I really want for this purpose is a paintable flat slab front and haven't seen any off the shelf ones that don't look like wardrobe doors.

Unlikely to find something like that since most would consider it rather ugly , so no point in them being produced .If you want to make your own a floor mounted system would be needed to take the weight of huge mdf panels ( which painted are likely to bow) .