No need to relocate any electrical/hvac. The wall is an 8 ft. wall with a "normal" 3 ft. door on it right now which is centererd.

Hi Dog5,

How big is your opening?

We got ours from Lowes for our bathroom, it looks amazing and it makes the tiny bathroom much more spacious.

My 20something niece, nephew, and all of their friends instantly commented on how cool it looks.

It was super easy to install ourselves.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/ReliaBilt-Solid-Core-Soft-Close-Pine-Barn-Interior-Door-with-Hardware-Common-36-in-x-84-in-Actual-36-in-x-84-in/1000337511?cm_mmc=SCE_PLA--

Opening, right now, is for a "normal" 3 ft door, but I know I may have to make the opening wider..not a problem.

If it's a 3 foot door and you want it to slide both ways, wouldn't you need a 9 foot wall with the opening centered?

You could enter the bathroom sideways.

????? Barn door isn't going into bathroom; it's going into laundry/storage area

If you want the doorway fully open, the barn door has to be able to slide all the way to the right or left to clear the doorway. A 3 foot door with a 3 foot doorway needs 3 feet on one side or the other of that doorway - more if the door and doorway are bigger than 3 feet. Right now, you have 2 1/2 feet. So, it seems to me you'll have to move the doorway, which means all sorts of issues for the layout of the laundry.

Someone can’t do math. Or count electrical switches, hvac registers, or outlets. The wall is guaranteed to have at least 1 of the 3, and be at least 1’ too small. And that is if the door is in the direct Center of the wall.

why would you need to slide it from both sides? I can't see any benefit with a single 3' door. either get two 20" doors and have one on each side that meet in the middle, or the one 36" door (actually a little bigger than the opening is better so it covers the opening completely when closed) and pick a side for it!

But to answer your question, the railing comes w/stoppers. so technically you could get a 9'track and put the stoppers only at the ends. but you won't be able to put the stopper at the proper place to close the door directly over the opening, (otherwise it wouldn't be able to go back and forth). so when you would close it, you would have to stop it yourself over the opening. Make sense?

btw,,,paying that much for that pine door (about $30 in material) and track at lowes is a rip off. eBay sells iron railing for these at all sizes and colors. I got 2, 6' tracks and hardware for it for $70.

Let's put a door that doesn't block sound on the noisiest room of the house....

@Beth,

Right? Hubs demanded to go in different direction, we were here for several months before he realized a barn door gave us back precious space...grrrrrr

He argued that it could fit in the car (no delivery fee/waiting at home) and that he could hang it easily (which he did)

AND more importantly, shut me up ;)

I give up. Is my arithmetic wrong? If you have an 8 foot wall, and a 3 foot doorway centered in the middle, then surely you have 2 1/2 feet clear on either side of the doorway. A 3 foot door will not slide far enough over to clear the doorway. Six inches of door are going to protrude into the doorway. So yes, you'll be going sideways through that door.

ok,,so he hung it,,,on one side, yes? not enough room to go back and forth.