How To Make A Paper Sliding Door Jail

This video is my first adventure in building something from scratch.

How to make a paper sliding door jail.

Whether you plan to put a cot behind your jail bars or decorated them with fake cobwebs and rubber spiders there is no need to purchase expensive metal bars. To be very honest this type of video has been shot by me before i make metal doors in my shop and i make them all of the time so i figured this time i wo. I needed a door for a room that i ended up converting it into an office. The classic jail bars on a sliding track are more the exception than they are the rule.

We read the instructions and sketched a simple plan of what we wanted the door to look like. Most cell doors swing open and outward. Each door is essentially a series of horizontal s. Very simple cheap and q.

The main structure of the door is a piece of plywood to achieve the thickness needed for the hangers we bought 1x3 lumber to make a frame. I needed a door for the kitchen but wanted to keep the room as bright as possible so i decided to build a shoij screen sliding door. The doors will have a small window but other than that they have a sturdy metal construction with an average weight of 300 pounds and a standard thickness of 3 inches. We started by picking everbilt sliding door hardware available at home depot.