How To Adjust Sliding Closet Doors

Hold it against the jamb while you adjust the brackets as shown.

How to adjust sliding closet doors. To fix it you ll have to work from inside the closet so get a flashlight and screwdrivers. Maybe its your sliding track maybe slider wheels. Sliding doors are great when they are sliding but can be a real pain in the bum when they don t. Today s video will concentrate on adjusting the wheels to help alleviate some of these annoying issues.

Install adjust or remove bifold closet doors with a few simple steps. Most sliding closet doors have a track on which the door glides back and forth. 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. Adjust doors by tighten screws or bottom pivot.

Start by pushing one door closed against the jamb. 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. If the side with the adjusting screw is too high causing it to bind at the top turn the screw counterclockwise. Remove doors by lifting from tracks and removing hardware.

The home mender dustin luby shows us how to fix that ancient pesky problem my slider doors wont slide. Door installation requires adding tracks and jamb brackets to the top and bottom of door frame. 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. Usually the mounting bracket screws have loosened up making the door sag and rub against the carpet or floor.

Do the same on the other. Use an aerosol lubricant to lubricate all the door rollers. Regular vacuuming of the track will help keep the door sliding smoothly.