S&Z TOPHAND 36 in. x 84 in. Unfinished British Brace Knotty Barn Door with 6.6FT Sliding Door Hardware Kit/Solid Wood/Sliding Door/Double Surfaces/A Simple Assembly is Required (36, Door+J Shape)

I have to admit, I was a little skeptical when purchasing this, especially considering the door and railing hardware for under $200. In total from unboxing to completing install, was less than 2 hours, with a little help from my wife. Could not be happier with the functionality, quality and finished look. Highly recommend!

The instructions weren't perfect, but assembling and hanging the door was straightforward. My photo doesn't show the handle bc I haven't got around to putting it on yet. It works very well, and I am very pleased with the price..

Ok so if your gona order this make sure you have 1. A sander (i suggest an electric one) 2. Drill and drill bit set 3. Paint roller or paint gun (paint gun is way better in my opinion) 4. Metric sockets and a ratchet or attachments so you can use your sockets with your drill.Ok you got all that? You should be good to go. Depending on the size you get it can get a bit heavy so you might need a second person to help. Overall everything fit snuggly and looked good except the middle rail. The middle rail had a large gap on either side. So i filled those with some wood puddy and painted over it. But not a huge deal.The biggest issue i had was with the rail its pretty difficuly to hold it and mark and drill it so everything lines up but its not impossible. I did it by myself but a second person would have made it a lot easier. The next issue i had with the rail is it was to close to the wall so the bolt heads would catch on the trim around the door. I ended up adding 3 washers to each rail attachment point to bring it out an extra .5 inches. After i made that change it opened and closed smoothly. At this time im gona skip installing the guide pieces for the floor cause i feel like they'll just collect dirt and dog hair and ill stub my toe on them.The door is all real wood so it shoule be durable. Just make sure you seal or paint it so doesnt end up warping.Lastly the direction havent been updated so one step litterally tells you to cut a channel with a chainsaw at the bottom lol this is completely uncessary and wildy dangerous on top of being the wrong tool for that specific tasks.

Great door. I have done several of these now with good results. Easy to assemble and great customer support. I stain and seal with polyurethane. I really like getting the door with the actual hardware.If you stain, I recommend using a pre-stain wood conditioner. Also, for the top rail that supports the door (the rail that the wheels roll on), I recommend using a 1x6 to mount the rail onto - ie it is difficult to mount the rail into the wall on its own, without a 1x6 rail. Much easier with that rail. Well, those are my practical, learned lessons...

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.