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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  The doors came out great! What hardware did you use? A kit? |
No kit, they seemed pricey....I watched a few videos and read a few blogs so we could piece it together as to what we needed to do. I wanted to use my existing doors because they had the glass so I found a guy on line with the same issue and he explained how he added on 2 inches all the way around the door to fix the problem of the new size needed.
My husband welds so he knows a little about metals. He ordered in two 12 foot piece of flat iron. He cut one down to about 9 foot for the track and used the remaining to make the straps, the end pieces in the track (so the door has something to bump against and wont roll off the end) and he made the brackets that go at the bottom so the door doesn't push out if someone pushed on them. He used some of the metal and bent it to fit the wheels. It all got painted with Rustoleum metal paint in satin.
I'm glad a read quite a few blogs because a lot of people were saying to use the wheels used for garage door at the hardware store. Those wheels are flat across so I wasn't understanding how this would work right an that track. After more research I finally had someone mention the wheels have to have a "V" groove so it doesn't wobble. I think we put about less than $100 into it.