Pocket Door Behind Shower Wall

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.

Pocket door behind shower wall.

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. They are hung from the top by means of a rail which is mounted on the door frame header. 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.

Typical bi pass sliding doors are installed on a track that runs along the top of the opening. A pocket door slides between the wall layers and the door is installed when the wall is framed. Today i am installing a pocket door frame in an existing wall that happens to be for our guest bathroom. The existing bathroom door swung to the right as you.

It only took a few minutes of extra time to do this. 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. They used to be very popular in wealthy houses from the end of the nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. A pocket door is simply a sliding door that slides back into the wall cavity when opened.

The tile hasn t been installed yet but the door frame still moves.