Building A Screen Door From Scratch

How to make a screen door this is a great diy project that can be completed in a weekend and will give you years of enjoyment.

Building a screen door from scratch.

Adding professional builder to my long list of to dos was really never in my sights. To attach the stiles and rails fit the table saw with a tongue and groove bit. How to build a rustic screen door from scratch. Paint or stain and varnish the frame parts.

It is also said to be a lot sturdier than the screen doors you can purchase at most big box stores. My diy screen door will be 80 x 36. I built this screen door with simple pocket hole construction and dimensional lumber for our recent back porch overhaul. Here is the finished homemade screen door for the garage.

On the front face of the door glue and nail frame molding inside the screen opening perimeter with inch brads. For a final touch i also attached a latch to be able to keep the screen door open if needed. The diy screen door only took a few hours to complete although i had to wait extra time for paint and glue to dry. Allow to dry fully.

Step 5 assemble the screen inserts photo by kolin smith. If you re not using premade jamb material or if your walls are a nonstandard thickness you can buy 5 or 6 inch wide lumber and rip cut it to the width of the wall using a table saw. This way i have plenty of room to get furniture through the doorway. We had been shopping around for one but we could never find a model that we liked.

We cut the 6 inch fir down to 5 1 2 inches to create the stiles vertical and top rail horizontal. The diy screen door made from scrap wood was complete. This screen door can be modified to fit any size doorway you have. For the bottom kick rail we cut down the 8 inch fir to 7 1 2 inches.

Assemble the screen insert frames using glue and brads at the corners. Make this diy screen door. Latest build video. When building a door jamb to fit a standard wall with a two by four frame and 1 2 inch drywall on each side the width of the jamb board typically is 4 9 16 inches.

To optimize my material i used two 10 2 6 s and one 8 2 6. Build the frame for the door. A couple of weeks ago i shared with you my diy screen door that i built with my hubby and dad. So if you are looking for a simple screen door that is easy to build and still looks great then you ll definitely want to check out this tutorial.

We had been wanting a screen door for our back porch for years but never got around to putting one in until we updated our back porch. I hope you enjoy the video.