Pocket Door Behind Shower Wall

The other side of the pocket required the plywood pieces to be attached to the drywall before it was screwed to the pocket door wall studs.

Pocket door behind shower wall.

Standard pocket door frames are made to be installed within an interior 2 by 4 wall and therefore they are just wide enough to accommodate the door and a half inch of sheet rock on both sides of the frame. A pocket door is simply a sliding door that slides back into the wall cavity when opened. There s a 1 4 of plywood over the pocket door frame and the wall framing and then the substrate we re using the wedi system. Obviously this leaves no room for your needed plumbing lines.

A white pocket door opens to a white drop in bathtub fixed against a black and white patchwork quilt tiled accent wall and beneath a niche framed by gray grid tiles. The existing bathroom door swung to the right as you. Today i am installing a pocket door frame in an existing wall that happens to be for our guest bathroom. They are hung from the top by means of a rail which is mounted on the door frame header.

Another option would be a barn door where the hardware is mounted to the wall above the door and the door slides along the face of the wall and opening. The tile hasn t been installed yet but the door frame still moves. Since the pocket door wall studs were normally 3 4 inch deep the 1 2 inch plywood never had a chance of touching the moving door. A pocket door slides between the wall layers and the door is installed when the wall is framed.

The 36 side without the plumbing is over a 24 pocket door.