How To Fix Sliding Folding Closet Doors

Spread the crack slightly with the screwdriver and spread carpenter s glue with a toothpick.

How to fix sliding folding closet doors.

Use an aerosol lubricant to lubricate all the door rollers. If you have a sliding closet door that glides on a bottom track clean the track with a damp cloth to ensure smooth gliding. Then hold the spring loaded top pivot down while you swing the top of the door toward the frame and under the door track. Lubricate the rollers but not the track because lubricant will act as a magnet for dust.

Loosen the set screw on the top bracket and slide the bracket slightly along the track to adjust the space between the top of the doors. Repairing bifold doors begin by inserting the bottom pivot into the bracket which can be screwed to the floor to the door jamb or both. If the rollers are damaged install replacement rollers available at home centers. Every home repair must end in fun.

Remove a door by lifting and tilting the bottom out. First check the alignment of your closet doors. Tighten the set screw. Sliding closet doors fall off tracks.

Close the wood with a c clamp and leave the clamp on for 3 to 4 hours. To clean and lubricate the hardware of a sliding closet door use a stiff brush a toothbrush or a hand vacuum to clean dust from the tracks. Once the door is approximately under the hole in the track release the pivot. Hold the brace along the door edge with the triangular area on the back of the door.

There should be an even and uniform separation all the way along the top and bottom. Then the door either sags or falls out of the track. Close the door and again. Watch to the end if you want to see the fun part.

Then mark the anchor pivot pin hole centerlines. Then retighten the screw close the doors and check the fit. Loosen the set screw of the top pivot bracket then move the top of the door toward or away from the door jamb as necessary to make the gap even. If a roller is stuck unscrew and remove it.

Stand back five feet or so and examine the gaps on the top and bottom. Take down the door and pry the pivot out of the door edge with a flat head screwdriver or pliers. Bi fold closet doors are some of the most used doors in your house.