DIYHD 43" Bi-Folding Sliding Barn Door Hardware,Black Flat Track Top Mount Roller,Kit for 2 Doors,No Door

This rails system is attractive and works perfectly.

Very sturdy and smooth! Looks great too

We installed over wood panels so it wouldn’t smash the drywall. There are no words in the instructions- only diagrams. But it was easy enough to figure out what went where. Only issue was finding a 15mm drill bit for the stopper on the bottom of the doors.Basics instructions fyiBest with 3 people.Had to furr out the closet opening because our bifold doors were meant to go inside the opening instead of outside and thus smaller.Mark center of top sliding bar.Hold bar up and drill the 5 holes into wood stud. Attach the bar.Attach 4 plates at the tops of the sliding doors.Drill 2 holes for stoppers in bottom of doors at edges. Temporarily tape the stopper to bottom of doors.Put the doors on the track via the 4 rollers. Do not fasten. But be careful because they could fall off.Align doors as desired.Remove tape from stopper and mark where it hits the floor. Remove doors.Fasten stoppers to floor via 4 screws each.Put doors back up and tighten with Allen wrench.

I've been looking for a way to close off a finished closet opening nearly 48 inches wide. It is near our main entrance and a set of doors there will be very noticeable. Traditional sliding barn doors would require another several feet of track and space beyond the woodwork, and there is not enough room for that. Double bypass barn doors were an option, but had some disadvantages such as double tracks. And of course, traditional big box store bifold doors are cheap and are an insult to almost all your senses. They're flimsy, noisy, the tracks are weak, and usually they're not real wood.With one exception, hardware in this kit is made to bear a heavy load. That's good because my four doors weigh a total of about 50 lbs. I like the industrial look of the matte black. The track is about 1/4" thick (actually 6 mm), the steel hangers are heavy, as are the stands that hold the track off the wall. (The wheels are nylon (?) and quiet). The design is made for relatively thick doors so I had my carpenter make panel doors of bead board fir in frames that began as 1.5" before planing and finishing. The doors stand off the closet finished opening by about an inch. It could be closer if you go with a thicker door, but some of that space is needed when in outer door pivots.My only caution to purchasers is about the four most important fasteners that stand off the track from the wall. In case you want to mount your doors over a sheetrock opening, they provide these stupid little plastic inserts that expand behind the wall as the screw goes in. This set up would last only a few days before my doors, which are pretty typical, would pull it off the wall. In my installation, the standoffs for the track are screwed to the 1 x 5" trim. Four lag screws are provided, but when installed they protrude less than half an inch beyond the trim, and into the sheetrock. In other words, the door trim is bearing the load of the doors. If the lag screws were 3.5" long then they would anchor in the header behind the sheetrock.If this bifold sliding barn door kit fits your need, I recommend purchasing, but I would also head to the local hardware store to buy some lag screws, probably 1/4' but could be 5/16" and a little bottle of flat black to make them match the other hardware.

As another reviewer stated, the 4 lag screws (what holds up the entire door system) are waaaay too short. We installed this system mounting the rail onto a 1"x6" top trim board over sheetrock. After reading another review, we immediately decided to not bother with the included lag screws and replaced them with 5" x 5/16" lag screws from Menards. All of the hardware is well made and heavy duty, so why did they skimp on the most important item? Maybe they don't have sheetrock as a common wall substrate where this door system is made. You absolutely need to get all 4 lag screws buried into either a stud or header or it won't be able to hold the weight of the doors. I love love the look and the operation of the doors is great! Beware if you are not mechanically inclined as the instructions are only pictures with some measurements (mostly in metric). My husband is very handy and definitely saved the project by doing some step-by-step figuring and measuring.