Making barn style interior doors

[januszsobolewski]

I am restoring an old watermill in France. My wife(!) has decided that she wants the interior doors to be barn style doors (if that's the right name for them). By this she means the doors that are made up of planks of vertical wood and held together with a Z type thing on the back.

Does anyone know an easy way to make these? Any tips? Or what about DIY packs to buy for putting these together? Or ready made ones that I can buy?

Any recommendations on good tools that I can get her to buy me to make my job easier for this?

 

[JohnD]

it is called a Ledged and Braced door. .

If you wife wants it to look like a barn, and doesn't expect the doors to offer much resistance to draughts or noise, they can be made up fairly easily from sawn or planed timber.

The diagonal braces go towards the hinge positions as they go down. They ought to have a sort of notch in the horizontal where they meet to keep them in place

There is a stronger variety called Ledged, Braced and Framed which is thicker round the edges but needs Mortice and Tenon joints. You could get her to buy you a Table Morticer and a table saw and some kind of planer. This will not cost much more than three times the price of a set of ready-made doors

 

[Bodgeit and scarper ltd]

floor boards make good doors, all you need is a hammer and a hand saw.

 

[januszsobolewski]

Thanks for all your help. I will see if I can get a "present" of some great tools in exchange for the "sacrifice" of making these special doors (good thing she doesn't read this forum).

 

[foxhole]

You can buy ready made or adapt gate kits from wickes etc.