Our barn came with sliding doors on the stalls. We have 2. Both are twisted so one sticks out at the bottom when closed the other is twisted toward the stall on the bottom. They were made from stall kits with separate pieces for the sides bottom and grill and lumber is screwed into the frame. It looks like they sealed the lumber.
What are my options? The lumber is screwed in so it can’t move. It’s been very hot and humid, and it seems like the warping is worse now than when we moved into the house in May.
On a related note, I like the sliding doors for not taking up room in the aisle, but I admit that I don’t actually trust them to keep the horses in should one of them take exception to being left alone while the other is out working/trail riding. We have a third stall that opens out into the aisle. It’s very heavy wood with a grill. I love the heft of that door and know it would keep the horses in.
There are a lot of different types, ways these are made. A couple of pictures would speak a 1000 words.
Yeah, pics are needed here. Do you have all the hardware at the bottom that holds them shut? The comment about not trusting them suggests that perhaps you don’t? There should be a roller and a bracket thing that secures the bottom tight to the stall front when the door is closed.
Only one had a roller. The warped side is the non-roller side. We took the one roller off due to it being a hazard in the aisle. It had a very thin metal shelf protruding at a height that could catch a foot. Even when the roller was on, the door is so warped, they could easily push a foot through.
I don’t leave them unattended in the stalls. They just eat in there once a day at the moment.
As I said there are different types of sliding doors. If you post some pictures I or someone else should be able tell you exactly what needs to be done. All the sliding stall doors I have seen have floor or wall mounted roller that hold the bottom in place, secure. If installed correctly a horse can’t get it’s foot caught.
As to why the door is warped, what caused it to warp depends on how it was constructed and installed.
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No wonder you’re not happy. You need the roller guide and also the door stop bracket on the other side to hold the door closed. If the wood insert is so warped those pieces aren’t usable, then the doors need to come down and the wood replaced.
Here’s a little video that explains why you need these things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnLqfoMyQms
This is a door stop bracket: http://www.rammfence.com/horse-stall…ll-bumper.html
This is another one: https://www.amazon.com/National-Hard…/dp/B000BO6E00
Or a little different design, from Lucas: http://www.lucasequine.com/lucas-equ…dstopguide.htm That’s pretty slick, really like the look of that.
I found the brackets from Ramm a little sharp. I have the National Hardware ones (or something that looks just like it) in my barn now.
Looks like the doors never had guides on the latch side. We’d have to do some engineering to make that happen because the doors are flush against the wall where they close. The way it is now, any guides would stick out from the wall and just be something to step on or trip over.
I was just talking with the DH and he isn’t in love with the sliding doors so we’ll probably replace them with hinged doors.
