Pocket Door Behind Shower Wall

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

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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

A pocket door slides between the wall layers and the door is installed when the wall is framed. 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. Typical bi pass sliding doors are installed on a track that runs along the top of the opening. The existing bathroom door swung to the right as you.

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.