Are the uneven gaps in your bifold doors driving you crazy? Learn how to adjust and tighten your bifold doors in our latest Skobel Homes Homeowner How-To. Learn more about Skobel Homes at www.skobelhomes...
Great how to video. Thanks for covering each part on the door. Many videos will cover one or two parts or address a specific issue. The information you shared gave me exactly what I needed to get my office doors working like new again. Well done and thank you!
Happy to have found your video. My doors are now much better aligned than the poor job left by the builder. Thanks very much for making the fix simple!
Thank you for this video. I've never tried to fix a bi-fold door before and mine came right out of the groove and this video help me fix it in under 5 minutes!!
I had a door that pitched so badly the other end was too low to stay in the sliding bracket so the door would just fall out of the frame if pulled even a little bit. I just thought the framing of the door was uneven. In less that 1 minute (at the 58s mark of the video), I fixed a problem I have been dealing with for 6 years. Thank you!
The door came off the track days ago & I can't even begin how frustrating it is waiting for my husband to do it. i tried to fix it every which way ... holding it up w my legs & pushing the pin down w a flat head screwdriver, squishing my fingers as the door slammed in half etc. i didnt know that the screw just needed to be loosened & the flat thingy could move on the track which makes it easier! My husband will be amazed that it'll be done when he gets home from work. Thank you for your help! :)
+Debi Galanti I had the same situation today, but am single and thought I'd have to hire a handyman. RU-vid to the rescue - this video quickly explained the parts and how they worked. It took me a good 30 minutes, but I was able to loosen the top, reposition the bottom and get the stupid thing back on the track and tightened !!
Wow! This is a huge help! My stupid doors have had me in tears and my husband frustrated at so many failed attempts to fix it. Thank you so much!! Will sure share!
Our alignment brackets for sold them that they were touching and springing the door open. So they never would be fully closed. Whew. I just bent em back now it's closed and I'm a hero
Thank God for RU-vid Videos...you saved me on this one. We had our carpets replaced and the installers did a bad job of putting the doors back in the bedrooms. So I had to go behind them and fix everything back they way it was. However, I wasn't sure of what to do...
This is great info. We have a bifold door going into our laundry room. The problem is our house is not level and it constantly comes out of the track. I finally just took it completely down but I would like to rehang it. Sometimes it’s nice to just close the door and pretend the laundry doesn’t exist. 😂 Will these tips work for a house that isn’t level?
Thanks so much, I had a carpet removed and the contractor had messed up my bathroom door so it didn't close Kept falling out of the tracks and thought it was broken but the height screw was all that needed adjusting.
OMG - fixed the right side of the door that was scraping EVERY SINGLE TIME I opened the dang door. Finally. Um - for those of us that aren't 6' tall, however, a step ladder is handy! ;)
I’m about to adjust mine tomorrow ! One of my doors sits to low. I think I need to unscrew it some from the bottom so it lifts upward ? I have been putting it off thinking I have to take the entire door off ( and putting them on was so painful). So I hope it works !!!
My teen has a small bedroom 10x10 with a refular small closet with two sliding doors..Will it be worth it to swap them for blindfold doors to maximize closet space or not really? And can I install them on existing track or do blindfold doors come with its own track system? Thank u
My door doesn’t have a spring loaded pin on side that meets in middle, it gets loose often cuz ceiling slants up. Wall side pivot pin seems stable and not moving. Any other tips?
I think that at some point, I need to either patch the hole in the left door that the top pin for the bracket rides in (it feels like the entire pin assembly is loose or wobbly and would easily pull out), or replace the doors entirely (the laundry room doors are solid, but my wife prefers to keep them open a crack because of the gas water heater, so I may ultimately replace them with folding doors with louvers). For now, thanks to your video, at least I've fixed that left door so it doesn't jam against the floor when we fold it back to get laundry out of the dryer, and when both doors are closed, they close without fighting each other, even though they are not quite level. I've had a pretty full afternoon drilling out stripped holes for the door handles and filling them in with wood dowels glued in with the epoxy I used to build rockets. The handle is solidly attached again, and the doors can at least close and don't bind on the floor when opened. Call it "close enough for government work." ;)
My right door is not lightened up with left door. When shut from top to bottom tbe right one is sticking out more then other. I need to push it in more how do I do that.
My set screw is always coming loose. I think I have the wrong kind of screw; it looks different than the one in your video. What kind of screw do I need to get?
Ive found the location of your knobs could result in the track bending and failing over time. It has happened to me twice. If you can open the doors via knob, but not close them via knob, or vice versa, this is what i mean. Need to think about this if you have kids.
Ladies nobody likes a sloppy knob job a dab of nail polish or some locktite on the threads of those knob screws and forget about em until your ready for new ones !!