Installing a Pocket Door Frame in an Existing Wall
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Today I am installing a pocket door frame in an existing wall that happens to be for our guest bathroom. The existing bathroom door swung to the right as you walked in. It's amazing how much room the swing of a door takes up in a small bathroom. It takes up about 8 square feet. This one of the main reasons why we love pocket doors.
We showed you a video last week of the built-in shelves that we are planning to install in the wall behind where the door used to swing in front of it. You can watch that video here:
Planning Bathroom Organization with Built In Wall Shelves
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Now you know why the wall was all torn up. I had not talked about the installation of our new pocket door. Before we start the built-in shelves project we needed to finish the drywall around the pocket door. So I thought I would talk about the pocket door frame in this video. I have installed many over the years because they are co easy.
So this video explains the installation of the pocket door frame.
I didn't show hanging of the door and how it slides, that will have to be in another video.
Here is where you can buy your frame:
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Because Japan solved the issue of stupid swinging doors long time ago. If I ever get to a new house built, I'll do as much as possible to get pocket doors all over the place. Saves so much room and looks so clean.
I agree. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Why would people hate pocket doors? They’re delightful!
They are usually made by half-as* carpenters with thin cheap materials and they warp and derail often and make hella noise. Make a good one and they are awesome, buy a cheap one and they are amazingly awful.
I love pocket doors, every house should have them😉
Lol at the cat meowing. All of my cats (4) 🤦🏽♀️ are construction cats lol! As soon as a drill is out they surface lol!
Smart folks, save as much space as you can with real estate! Five stars on the how-to video also!
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Thanks for the comment!
I wish we had put more pocket doors in our house. It's a useful feature you really don't think about until you get fed up with squeezing around doors.
Man great video, thank you. after reading comments on here trying to learn more about pocket doors since Im in the middle of building my house by myself I come to realize people suck....keep up the good work and dont let them get to ya!
Thanks for the compliment. Pocket doors are great! Thanks for watching!
You made it look easy
You two are so cute! Thanks for the video!
Thanks Monica! Thanks for watching!
Hey guys....I like pocket doors, great idea....
Thank you!! It is such a space saver! I’m super happy we were able to fit it in!!
I would have liked to have seen a vid of the project from start to finish but I got the jist of the project. Looks pretty easy.
Every wife start out saying “I would like” you notice that. 😁 Good video I would like a pocket door..Here!
Can’t believe you call that a small bathroom!! 😹 hi from England. Buying our first home and struggling to find bathrooms where the door doesn’t skim against the bath when you open and have to squeeze round to get to the loo. Planning a minor remodel on wherever we buy and this looks like a great idea!!
Thanks for the comment! Good luck with your first home. That is so exciting!
Pro tip - if you find one with an extra bedroom next to it, you can cut part of the bedroom out for a larger sized shower room (gotta build that yourself but hell of a luxury), and the other weird spot left inside the bedroom, wall if off into a walk in closet the size of your new shower. You may thank me later, anyone who does this.
Thanks for the tip!
Small bathrooms and houses was a major cause of the American Revolution. We wanted more space. 🙂
Love when Wives say “WE”. And then its me doing Everything.
Just so you know, this “wife’s” online business allowed my husband to retire in 2012... so if I ask him to do some job around the house occasionally with that time, I think that isn’t such a terrible request.
Remodelaholic I will be working till the day I leave the planet.
Congrats to you 2 😊
May I ask what your online business is?
Love it, and loved Tiger lol Pocket doors are such a great idea 😍
Thanks for the nice comment!
Good job maid!!
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This is a great starter video for me considering this DIY project. Thanks!
You make it look so easy! 🤣 I'm gonna try this too!
Let me know how it turns out.
Awesome video thanks thanks sharing. Now I'm just wonder where is the next video showing the door installed? That's the part I need help with.
Great job, my husband and I like pocket doors too. Just not sure how to do them ourselves.
Thanks! Hopefully this video will help you understand the process better.
I luv pocket doors, they do save space, I prefer a pocket door over a door that swings open to either direction.
They are great! Thanks for commenting.
wow so many men triggered by the wifes use of the term "we". a lot more than the physical build goes into the process. nice to see such a nice happy partnership. great video!
Sorry it took me a year to see this. Thanks for having our back. I don't get it either why they are so triggered.
Love it
I'd love to change a few traditional doors into pocket ones in my home. Why do people dislike them? I think they make the most of a space.
I also don't get it.
I want a pocket door for my master closet so bad. Whoever installs bifold louvered doors anywhere is just dating and devaluing lol
my wife sais the same thing . "WE" installed , we did .
I have wood floor thats slightly above ground and if i remove bottom 2x4 completely, it wont be even with the wood floor edge.
Are you talking about the 2x4 of the wall you would have to take out? You could install the frame below the level of the floor with no problem. You just need to make sure your door would still fit and cut it down off the bottom if you need to.
@@Remodelaholic nah 2x4 on the bottom that sits on floor
Put some trim around the light switch box 😆
I did. I will have to show How I did it.
Thanks for making this video. We have exactly the same layout and situation that you had--left door swing into the bathroom--a pantry to the left and in the hallway a bedroom door to the right. My wife wants a pocket door to save space and allow us to put a towel rack on the wall that is now behind the current door when it opens. Space is tight. Problem is/was light switch and outlet in the wall just inside the bathroom door.. After watching your video, I'm thinking it can be done. I'll be removing and installing a custom vanity, so I'm thinking of removing the drywall and doing the stud removal and header work from the bathroom side. At any rate--thanks for the how-to!
You are very welcome for the video and thanks for great comment.
It’s really doable and you will love having the pocket door. It saves so much space. Good luck!
So you have footage of how you put the door on the track to show the complete processm
Not in terms of a DIY because I'm sure it would be much cheaper but how much would it cost to have something like this done?
2:25 you can see that he used an ABS electrical box. that has surface mount flanges. you dont want that. there are plenty of models that have flanges that mount on the studs. for everything else there are easy mount boxes that are for "after thoughts." this would have been a great opportunity to use and introduce that to the audience.
Great video! Also, love the pin collection behind you! What kinds of pins are they?
Disney pins. Thanks for noticing!
I wonder if we could do a pocket door on our master bath 🤔 it kinda drives me crazy when I'm trying to put stuff into our linen closet and someone tried to come in (closet is right behind where the door opens up). 🤔 Same issue on my girls bathroom. 🤔
The only thing you have to be sure about is if the walls are bearing walls (I would suggest getting proper professional advise for that)! If they aren’t - then it is pretty doable! We have done this in 5 of our 7 houses- sometimes more than once in a house- in tight spaces and it has been amazing every time! I am just always shocked by the space it frees up when you aren’t worried about the door swing! And if you have open access to one side of the wall, I love how minimally invasive it can be to fix it! Good luck!
My question is, what happens if the wall that your installing the pocket door into has an outlet or power switch, are you still allowed to installed the pocket door??, that is w/o any interuptiont of the power on either one or the boxes
did you not have access to that wire from above? I would have just pulled it up and dropped it back down and put it right next to the spot you are building in shelves.
I had to add junction box above the light switch to hold most to the wires because the light switch box had to be shallower. Thanks for the comment!
at the beginning of the video, my daughter thought it was the Facebook creator doing a tutorial video
Lol
Lol
What happened to that light switch? 😂
I added it back in a shallow box and had it stick out of the wall 5/8” of an inch.
How much would this cost? Thank you
Do you have a picture with the trim around the switch? i know its a silly question, but I want to do this, without having to move the outlets/switches.
Sure I can take a photo. Where can I send it? Email me at justin@remodelaholic.com
Can you show how you moved the electrical box and framed it in
I have the issue of switches being where I need to place the pocket door
I will see what I can do to find some images of what I did. Thanks for asking!
Love pocket doors for same reason. Curious - did you leave room on the latch side for trim install - approx 6"? Was the bath vanity screwed into the previous wall studs? How did you get the 1" screws into the pocket door frame from the vanity side, when the vanity is in the way?
Georgia Fan, great questions. I did leave room on the latch side. In fact I just finished trimming out the door, but i don't have a video yet. I will be making that soon. The bathroom was not screwed into the wall so that was not an issue for me. I did screw in the 1" screws into the existing drywall where I could working around the existing vanity. Stay tuned for an upcoming video about how I trimmed out the door frame.
LOL, skipped the door part of the pocket door install.
Can you only do pocket doors on framed doors?
Is there a way to build a pocket door into a closet? We have a closet next to the bathroom door, and the only way we could insert a pocket door would be into the same size as the closet. Would you cut into the closet and make it more narrow to use some of that space for the pocket door? (Hope that makes sense).
I think you can. It would help to see a photo and a drawing with some dimensions of what you are thinking of.
I installed a pocket door next to a shower wall. I just had to make the wall thicker to hold the pocket.
Send some photos and sketch with dimensions at hello@remodelaholic.com and I will see how it can happen.
Hi, thanks for the video, super informative, especially since we are currently in the same situation. I have a big question that I would love if y'all could answer it for me. Our house was built in 1880, so all of our doors are solid wood. Would the same process be possible with around about the same materials except the door obviously, because we don't have a lot of room to make this happen as well, about the same as y'all. Until this video we were doubting the possibility with major money and demo! Thanks so much, love you video's, binge watching all day!
I'm sure that you will be dealing with lath and plaster not drywall. It also depends on wether your wall is bearing weight or not. I would consult with a contractor to see how you could do it to be safe in that old of a house.
If it were my house I think there could be a way to make it happen.
Can you fit the pocket door into the existing 2x4 framing?
The old wall needs to be removed. You can't put the pocket door in the 2x4 frame.
A 2x4 header he says 😅
Do you have to relocate the bathrm light switch?
I rewired it and put it back in the same spot with a shallow box and sticking out the wall 3/4" with trim around it.
How did you know it was a nonbearing wall?
I had a contractor look at it and tell me. So I have trusses that span from the front of the house to the back. All the load sits on the outside of the house.
How did you set the height of the door? And what did you do about the threshold? Thanks!
I matched the height of the other doors in the hallway. The frame is a typical height. If it's shorter you need to cut off the bottom and reduild it.
For us there is no threshold, our floor is now the same in the hall and bathroom. We later updated the floor in the entire main floor of the house. If you have different floors, you just have to make sure your door has atleast a 1/2" of clearence above the transition strip of the floor. You might have to cut the bottom of the door to make it work.
Did you reuse the drywall you cut or did you buy new drywall?
I ended up putting up some new pieces because I wanted smooth walls. The ones I took down where heavily textured.
Do you have to screw it into the header also? All I saw you do was screw it into the floor.
I screwed it to the side of door opening, back of tge pocket door then the floor. Then attaching the sheetrock with 1" screws. That is what holds it all together. Thanks for asking.
Do pocket doors lock?
They can! In fact we ordered a locking handle, it took a while to arrive (and is the wrong color, ugh!!) Soon as we get it replaced, will try to get installation etc filmed and uploaded soon!!
Why would someone hate a pocket door right? Those are space saving, if you do it right, like you guys are doing it.
I know right? They ate the best! Thanks for having my back!
I had to pause at 1:50 seconds and mention that drop painters drop sheets are only 5 bucks and would negate the drywall in the shag carpet. if you have had to try and vacuum debris out of that stuff you know that he was cussing at himself later on after the video. do yourself a favor, put something down even if thats only some old blankets or sheets you will be saving yourself a huge headache later.
How long did this project take you from start to finish? You might have said in the video but I didn’t catch it.
It took about a day or two
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It’s not that I dislike the video. But the way they installed the frame was not totally correct. They also didn’t show step by step.
The way the tore out all that structure was also not correct.
Do you think i can install a pocket door behind a room closet ?
As long as you can remove at least one side of the wall. Just have it checked by a contractor that its not a bearing wall.
I think I learned practically nothing from this video.
You did learn how to trash the structure or you house. I hope it falls in on them.
Thanks for the nice comment. Have a great day.
You talk too much I don't want to hear about kids I want to hear about a pocket door
This. Was not helpful.
Thanks.
Neither was your comment😂😂
Why does the lady keep saying WE after everything..all your doing is talking
WE have been working together for over 18 years now remodeling 8 different houses. So WE are working on the project together even though I am doing the main install. WE are a team and WE will be remodeling this house together. So don’t be so offended by my wife and her amazing self.
@@Remodelaholic that's cute . But I respect that anyway you helped me out thanks
typical woman!
I couldn’t care less about your house lay out problems or kid problems etc.. this is a door video and it’s a waste of time
Thanks for watching! Have a Merry Chrismas!
@@Remodelaholic hahaha perfect response!
This is a destabilize the structure of your house video.
@@MAGAMAN▪︎why do you say that? (why insert such a comment without a supporting explanation?)
Bored