How To Fix Old Sliding Pocket Doors

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How to fix old sliding pocket doors. Remove a door with roller skate type rollers by prying the door up and tapping on the. Few things are more elegant and elusive than the smooth roll and click of pocket doors in perfect working order. Lower the door photo by john gruen. Old pocket doors may be hard to operate or don t work at all.

It s tough or impossible to adjust the doors once they are trimmed out. Lay a drop cloth on the floor and pop off the two plugs covering the roller adjustment screws at the bottom of the sliding door frame. There are a variety of problems that can occur with a pocket door. For a quick tune up of your patio door follow the steps below.

The doors jump off the track. Locating the back pocket door hanger. Remove a door from a j track by following the instructions in photo 5 but instead of pulling the top toward you push away to pop the rollers out of the track. Pocket slider doors are commonly installed on closets and bathrooms adjacent to a master bedroom.

Some require a simple fix while others may need a more extensive door repair. A step by step guide on how i repaired this pocket door that had come off one of its rollers. You are going to have to remove the pocket door to get the hanger out where you can work on it. In just a couple of hours you can have your old door sliding like new.

Others struggle with doors that stick balk bind scrape gap make. All of these pocket door problems can cause a person or a friend to avoid using pocket. Pull out a door that s stuck in the pocket by alternately pulling the top and bottom edges. Pocket doors make an elegant versatile statement that is unique to old houses.

Rather than opening inward or outward into the room taking. Some old house owners never have a moment s trouble with their pocket doors. I hope this video empowers the handyman inside you to tackle th. When the back pocket door hanger is off the track it is a bit more of a problem.

How to fix a stuck pocket slider door.