Supplies for Pocket Doors

Add locks, pulls and other hardware to finish off your pocket doors
By Harrison Howe If you're a builder and your project calls for installing pocket doors, you'll need to finish off the job with the necessary hardware. Once you purchase pocket doors, you'll have to shop for locks, pulls and other supplies for pocket doors. You can choose to get these items from pocket door sellers or from pocket door suppliers, or you can purchase them separately.

From decorative pulls and handles to sturdy locks, you'll need some sort of supplies for pocket doors whether you're installing exterior or interior pocket doors. You'll likely need to wait until you buy pocket doors before determining which type of hardware will go best with the type of pocket doors you're installing. When it comes time to shop for supplies for pocket doors, consider the following:

1. Buy the frame kit you need to install a pocket door.

2. Choose from a variety of decorative pulls for your pocket doors.

3. Select a lock, especially if you're installing exterior pocket doors.

Start your installation of pocket doors with required frame kits

Before you even begin installing pocket doors, you'll need a frame kit. These kits come with the necessary parts such as tricycle hangers, headers, tracks, brackets, door stops, floor anchors and other items for pocket door installation.
Try:  Get pocket door frame kits for pocket doors either under or over 80 inches in height, and designed for use with any standard two-by-four framing studs, from HomesteadHardware.com. Purchase a universal pocket door frame kit for doors of varying thickness and weight from Ace Hardware. Get frame kits, and even full prefabricated pocket door frames as well as mounting and sliding hardware, from Johnson Hardware.

Open and close pocket doors with pulls or handles

You can find a wide range of styles and types of door pulls from pocket door manufacturers of pulls, locks and other hardware. Select door pulls that mount on the face of the door, or hidden-from-sight edge pulls. You can also find pocket door pulls in various shapes and designs.
Try:  Select from brass, satin nickel, pewter or chrome decorative edge pulls for your pocket doors, from National Manufacturing. For an added touch of elegance, purchase push or pull plates for pocket doors, made from a variety of materials in many styles, from DoorHardwareDirect. Signature Hardware offers many pocket doors pulls, from simple round pulls to more ornate designs.

Add locks to both your interior and exterior pocket doors

In some cases, you may want or need to add locks to pocket doors. Of course, exterior pocket doors will need locks, but you might be using interior pocket doors for public restrooms or conference rooms that will required locks as well.
Try:  PocketDoorProducts.com has a long list of passage and privacy locks for pocket doors. Choose from a variety of brass locks for pocket doors, including heavy-duty, adjustable or flush bolts, at Doorware.com. Check out the inventory of pocket door locks at Woodward's Hardware, which includes keyed entry locks and frame bolts as well as standard privacy and passage locks for doors of various thickness.

• Some pocket door manufacturers can make custom-made pocket door frame kits to accommodate any size you require.