Fixing Folding Closet Doors

Bi fold doors are made of lightweight materials and sometimes the wood cracks around the one or both of the pivot pins.

Fixing folding closet doors.

Open the door and then loosen the setscrew for the top bracket slightly with a screwdriver. Bifold closet doors have several very common problems that plague homeowners but luckily they are an easy fix. Close the door to check for smooth operation and to see how the doors meet. If your doors hang from a top rail and do not have a track on the floor then you need to either replace or tighten down the floor guides.

Take out the door by pushing down the roller at the upper open edge and moving the edge back and forth. If your closet door came off the tracks you should be able to easily fix it by removing the door and cleaning the tracks off. The door leans when this happens and you won t be able to straighten it until you fix the cracks. The first thing to check is what type of rail system your sliding closet door uses in order for it to slide.

Top bracket 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. Then grab the door from both sides and lift it off the track and out of the closet. See if the screws holding the guides down need tightening to be more secure. Start by removing the metal floor keeper at the bottom of the door with a screwdriver.

Every home repair must end in fun. Bifold doors are the folding style doors that are most often used for closets. This will push down the pin removing the base of the door from its hinge. Adjusting the position of the door photo 1.

Hold the door by the side lift it up and out. Bi fold closet doors are some of the most used doors in your house. Watch to the end if you want to see the fun part. Then retighten the screw close the doors and check the fit.

Then close it again. A bifold should close snugly but not too tightly. Bifold doors should be parallel with the frame and each other when there are double bifolds in an opening. Sliding closet doors are loose and swing in and out.