To install your plywood hurricane shutter on a home built with frame construction measure and locate the framing studs.
Using plywood for sliding doors.
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Worst case scenario it would be totally unneeded structurally but would still dress up the otherwise drab slab of a door.
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My recommendation is to plan another project in addition to your barn door that can use about of a sheet of plywood as you ll have that left over.
I tried to design this project to only use one sheet of plywood but to achieve the double x look it required additional plywood.
Cut plywood to the size of the door frame.
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Flip the door so that the newly attached plywood side faces down.
You want to cover the trim entirely when the barn door is closed.
Adding a frame of pt 2x4 on the outside in a barn door type pattern frame around the outside one or more diagonals inside the frame would go a long way toward keeping the plywood flat while adding some visual appeal.
A shed door for stability is built out of a box shape using 1 inch by 4 inch wood beams or 2 inch by 4 inch wood beams and a 1 4 inch sheet of plywood.
Spray each square with a small amount of expanding foam to secure the square inside the frame.
I figured i could get a 2 4 door from this sheet with some to spare.
Building a shed door is a relatively basic project.
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And this is the raw material a 4 x 8 sheet of 1 2 plywood.
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After locating the framing studs and measuring carefully drive the 8 or 10 phillips head wood screws 2 to 2 1 2 long through the plywood and into the center of the studs above below and at the sides of each window approximately 7 8 outside the window frame.
This cuts down on noise passing through your door.
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Use a utility knife to cut squares out of a half sheet of foam insulation to fit inside the spaces between ribs.
Cut a sheet of 3 4 plywood to the size of your door opening plus the trim.
Hollow core doors are well suited to houses where there is little chance of punching a hole through with a piece of lumber.