subject: Sliding Door Maintenance [print this page] Sliding Door Maintenance Sliding Door Maintenance
For small rooms, like doorways and closets, a first rate answer would be to get a sliding door. The type that features two panels that can glide past each other is the bypass door type. They are commonly found in wide closets.
Hardware difficulties can be blamed for the door sticking, going off track, or not closing all the way. First on the checklist is to verify the condition of the roller brackets. Test each bracket by waggling one while keeping the others down. Take the wobble out of any brackets by tightening the screws.
If you can't pinpoint the wobbly bracket, just detach the door completely. The first step is to unfasten the guides. Get the screws off and put them somewhere you can get them again. Hardware stores sell substitutes for any wrecked guides. Sometimes bent metal guides can be straightened with pliers.
Next, have a helper grasp the outer door along one of its long edges while you grasp the other edge. Working together, tilts the door so that the bottom rises away from the inner door. Drive it upward in the same instant. Set the door against a nearby wall.
Use the same process to remove the other door. Look for openings on the side channels if you can't take out the bypass door in the manner above. This way, you can tighten all the screws without breaking a sweat. If screw openings have widened, just get the next biggest screw.
For installation directions, just reverse the detachment procedure. The doors should be perfectly balanced once hanging. Secure the floor guides once more, remembering to make it so that the doors are unobstructed when they are moved. The sorts of sliding door with panels that fold and slide along a single overhead rail are called bifold or accordion doors. Panels are affixed either by roller brackets or short spindles within the tracks.
These doors are detached by removing the spindles and then lifting the door on the same side as the pins. Tilt the bottom up from the floor at the same time. The spindles need a good cleaning before the door can be reattached. Procedures for the channel interior are the same.
