Replacing An Interior Door With A Pocket Door

Replacing the pocket door assembly with a conventional hinged swing door can improve the functionality of the doorway and greatly improve appearance and security.

Replacing an interior door with a pocket door. Pocket doors are space saving solutions for closets interior passageways and bedroom and bathroom entries in short almost anywhere inside your house. Replacing a pocket door with a swinging door. If your door develops hardware problems it can become expensive.

Carefully cut drywall and pocket door frame to allow a 2x4 stiffener on hinge side of the new door. Remove strike side jamb cut out steel track above. Replacement doors themselves are the same as new ones priced from 60 to 1 000 or more for custom hand carved models.

There is rarely a reason to replace a pocket door but the cost could run close to a new installation between 1 000 and 3 500. You can find the barn door hardware that we used here and the handle that we used here. Frame a pocket door.

Once the putty dried we touched them up with a little paint. A typical kit consists of the door itself. Cost of replacing pocket doors.

You will now have complete access to the roller and track. The family handyman expert rick muscoplat will show you how remove a pocket door and install a new one. Replacing the old pocket door.

Score around the door trim. If you choose to leave the door trim like we did you can used a pre primed 1 6 pine board for attaching the barn door. To prevent the trim from splitting when you remove it carefully score around it with a utility knife to break the polyurethane seal.