How To Align Sliding Closet Doors

Adjust doors by tighten screws or bottom pivot.

How to align sliding closet doors.

Sliding doors are great when they are sliding but can be a real pain in the bum when they don t. Door installation requires adding tracks and jamb brackets to the top and bottom of door frame. With the right tools and instructions installing adjusting or removing sliding doors is a cinch. Install adjust or remove bifold closet doors with a few simple steps.

When sliding closet doors are working properly they give you effortless access to your clothes shoes and furnishings. Bifold and sliding closet doors are practical space saving designs. Sliding closet doors operate on rollers that are positioned in tracks at the top jamb and floor allowing the doors to bypass each other in the tracks. This piece of hardware is essential in the installation adjusting and removal of sliding closet doors.

To fix it you ll have to work from inside the closet so get a flashlight and screwdrivers. How to adjust a sliding door. Today s video will concentrate on adjusting the wheels to help alleviate some of these annoying issues. It doesn t matter if it s a robe sliding door a closet sliding door a glass sliding door or a patio sliding door the principle is still the same.

Hold it against the jamb while you adjust the brackets as shown. Usually the mounting bracket screws have loosened up making the door sag and rub against the carpet or floor. Because sliding doors don t fold out the way bifold doors do they allow access to only half the width of the opening at a time. Unlike entry doors sliding closet doors rarely have a bottom track.

Do the same on the other. Most sliding closet doors have a track on which the door glides back and forth. Maintaining sliding closet doors. A bifold door has two vertically hinged panels that fold on top of each other as the door is opened.