S&Z TOPHAND® 20in x 84in Unfinished British Brace Knotty Barn Door with Sliding Door Hardware Kit/Solid Wood/Sliding/Double Surfaces/A Simple Assembly is Required

This item checks all the boxes: Real wood construction and hardware of good quality. Assembly and installation fairly straight forward. Looks quite nice.

It's very nice waiting to stain it.I've had it for a little while now. It wasn't easy to hang and slides very nice.

bought the S&Z TOPHAND 42" x 96" Unfinished British Brace Knotty Barn Door with the 8FT Sliding Hardware Kit about 18 months ago, and overall I’m still glad I went with it — mainly because of the price and the fact that it was fairly easy to put together. After living with it for over a year, I have noticed some natural wood shrinkage between the boards now that the wood has fully dried. I did two coats of paint originally, and I’m starting to see some of the wood-puttied nail/screw holes showing through, so it’ll need a little caulking and a repaint soon. The hardware works well, but just a heads-up: the metal bar the door rolls on was slightly longer than the space where I installed it, so I had to cut it down and redrill a couple of holes to match my wall studs. Once up, though, the door rolls smoothly when opening and closing. For the $250 I paid, it was a huge savings compared to similar doors at Home Depot or Lowe’s that were $800+. Even with the upcoming touch-ups, I still feel like we made the right choice and saved a lot of money. Overall, a good value door with minor long-term maintenance to keep it looking its best.

This was our first time building and installing barn doors. We are not DIY project amateurs, but these were tough! The assembly was fine. No issues on the hardware or wood planks. We stained ours black for a rustic look. The difficulty was hanging them and installing the track. Thank goodness we read other reviews that pointed out the weight of these doors! The track itself is super heavy. We didn’t bother with the flimsy track hardware in the package. Instead we purchased heavy duty lag bolts and toggle bolts (6” each - could’ve been safe with 5”) to be 100% sure this door would stay up! Ours required a header piece to allow for a gap when sliding due to our door frame trim. (For a header piece we used a 2x4x8 for our 48” wide door, and a 2x4x6 for our 36” door) This takes at least two people to install and lots of patience! The instructions are garbage, but the reviews and videos help. Very smooth sliders and nice quality handles. They turned out great! 🖤

Honestly this goes together with ease and a great addition to adding some drama to a room. I myself got tired of the doggie gate and said hmmm a barn door. Everything you need is in the box to make it happen. Now don't let this fool you thinking spruce is pine and should be light weight. This thing has some weight to it. Ancors it comes with would normally work for anyone else but I have concrete cinder block walls with voids. So I grabbed some split shot anchors for concrete and it is solid. When putting on the handle I feel they should have a templet but it doesn't. But no worries they way it lays out don't be afraid to make your holes larger for wiggle room to install as it has to be dead on. So a little wiggle of the drill bit and your good to go. All the hardware and door is all packaged perfectly. For a hint when putting the door together to grab a rubber mallet to push them boards in tight on the outside trim so you have no gaps. Also always nice to have a extra hand is important when putting the metal bar guide up as you want that to be level. A little trick for the door leveling off the ground. Just lay the metal on the floor and rest the door on it and measure from the finished floor to the bottom of the wheel if you just want to get it done and look good. I was at 86 1/2 inches was perfect for what I needed for clearance. 6ft level you should use and a pencil line and remember that's the top of the metal guide the wheels run on. Going to paint this white and yes I put the inside channel floor guide on the bottom instead of the big wheel they give as its the wife and I and dogs. If you have kids yeah I guess use that guide but for me one last thing to stub my toe on. Well enjoy and feel free to ask questions.

Edit: 3/26/23, a week after this review I finally was able to hang my door, and I find out that my wood is warped. It doesn't slide right and it hangs up on the stops. I am changing my two star review to a one-star review. Won't buy from this company again. It has taken me a little bit to write this review because I wanted to give all the good things about this door it's due. I purchased a 40 inch wide door. The door was very easy to assemble and the wood seemed like good quality wood. So that was the first thing I did was assemble the door. It was the easiest part of all of this. When I opened up the packaging for the hardware, everything seemed to be good quality. But as I laid the rail out for me to determine where it needed to go above my doorway, I realized that they had given me the bare minimum of railing for me to hang a 40 inch wide door. Realistically, if you have a 40 in wide door you need double that to clear your opening when you slide it back. I was given a 79 inch rail, that also had to have stops installed on each end, so I was already in the negative. I could have made it work and added a 12-in extension rail to it, but there were no extension holes drilled at the end of the railing. So in order for it to work with my door opening one end of the rail had to go exactly at the edge of my woodwork. Which means that the first hole that was drilled in the rail was seven and a half inches from there. So I wasn't even able to grab a stud with the first lag screw because of where the placement of the holes were drilled. I called Amazon and told them that I was running into issues with the rail and that I needed the company to send me a longer one, I even offered to pay extra money to do that and I told them that I would send back their 79 inch rail. Amazon gave me the number to call S&Z's customer service and for 2 weeks I tried to call and leave a message but the mailbox was full. Finally one day, I was able to leave a message. I gave them my name my order number and what I needed and I never heard a word from them. I tried to call them back for another week and still nothing. I called Amazon and told them I was having trouble getting in touch with them so they contacted the company theirselves and Amazon could not get resolution or a response from them either. Amazon offered a return and a refund for my trouble, but I had already put the door together, it seemed less of a hassle to try to figure out what to do with the railing then to try to figure out how to get the door apart and send it back. I could have ordered another rail but it would have cost me another $129 for a 7 ft rail, and at this point, it was the principle of the thing. I ordered my door in January of 2023 and it is now middle of March and I still do not have the barn door up. Because of where the placements of the holes are in the rail and the sheetrock anchors they gave me did not have a stop ledge on them, so when I put them into the wall and tried to screw the lag bolts in they just pushed back into the sheetrock. I did not want to use a header board to install this barn door because the header board would have come out past my trim mold and it would have kicked my door out too far. So I have finally found a half inch wide headerboard to use and I will attach the railing to that and hopefully I can get it hung this weekend. Oh, and the instructions to hang were useless. Would I buy from this company again? Probably not....NOT because of the quality of the door or hardware, but strictly because of the customer service of the company. If you are going to sell products in the United States through Amazon please make sure that your customer service is top notch, because that's what we expect.

Love this item. It does take some skill or 2 people to assemble to hold all the pieces in place. It is a monster of a door. But it looks great and cuts down on noise from game room. It soaks in the stain when you paint it. I think it is a great purchase.

OK, so with the title posted, I'm have well over 30 years experience as a woodworker/carpenter. I'll go over the negative first. It took almost a month for the door kit to arrive after ordering it on Amazon, which was not a huge deal as we were not in a hurry. The kit was packaged well, but there was still damage (not caused by the shipping company) that we felt needed to be addressed. The sides of the two stiles had indentations in them from previous strapping. ( the pieces were not strapped together in the box) Fortunately I am well versed in being able to repair edge damage so it won't show. The slats making up the panels, and the cross pieces that make the "K" bracing were cupped making assembly difficult and the two side stiles were slightly twisted. Again years of experience and proper tools made assembly possible. The instructions (in metric measurements) lay out where to drill the holes for the installation of the rollers. The stiles are predrilled for screws (that they call lags) that strengthen the assembled door. Unfortunately when you drill the mounting hole, your nice wood bit will hit one of those screws and dull it. If you have base and quarter round molding you may not have enough clearance for the door to operate with out mounting a 3/4" board on you wall to "shim" the track out. This also eliminates the very good possibility that the predrilled hole in the track will not line up with the studs in your wall. We opted to pre-finish everything before assembly which turned out to make assembly even more difficult. Don't do this. The two stiles were poorly routed out and repairs were needed to correct this. The bottom rail is routed out for a door "guide" which is a small plastic "T" they they want attached to the floor. We have laminate flooring over concrete so that was not an option. We purchased a good quality bottom door roller kit that attaches to the wall. Like I said, my years of experience really cam in handy. OK, now the good. The door appears to be made from white pine, so it is easy to work with. The hardware is of good quality even though the roller wheels are plastic. These would be much quieter than if they were metal rollers. Once the door was finally assembled, it loos fine and operates as it should. We ended up not using the "K" bracing for two reasons. One the were too short and would have left gaps at the ends, and two, we like the look without the "K" bracing. So, all in all we're satisfied with your end product and we're sure it will give years of service. The quality was as you'd expect for the money, but if you not experienced in woodworking, think twice,