In this video you will learn how to turn ugly cheap bi-fold closet doors into sexy bypass doors in just a couple hours. website samuraicarpente... tool store samuraicarpente...
Just been on the new website and it's awesome. Discovered your channel about 3 weeks ago now and I have watched every video, awesome content and a class level of workmanship. I am a joiner also, from Manchester in England and since watching your videos I've been more inspired than I have in a long time and you've pulled me out of the rut I was in and made me want to be a much better joiner than I've allowed myself to become in the last 2-3 years and for that I'm very grateful. Please keep making the videos man, your so good at what you do. Take care. Carl
Thanks for sharing this. I have a closet with awful bi-fold doors that are constantly falling off the tracks. This is a great idea. Ever since I have started watching your videos, I've felt inspired to do some sort of project, but most seem to be way beyond my current budget and skill-level. This one is the perfect start. Thanks again for doing what you do and inspiring the rest of us to do something too.
The handyman service I hired said they couldn't do this. Said they'd have to break out a wall to widen the opening. Told me it wouldn't work. This demo is exactly what I need and this guy did it perfectly. Maybe I need to hire The Samurai Carpenter instead.
For the track on the bottom: You could create a slight bevel in the floor instead of using a track at all. Slightly round the bottom of the door and voila, you have borrowed from the Japanese Sliding Shoji.
wow, every video a burner (and I'm looking many crafting stuff on yt)! like your creativity, your style, and your glance for the detail. Keep it up, Samurai:)
Hi I use an automatic translator to write down this, I have one suggest making to the sliding doors. So if you the plastic guidance shift so them concentric under the door sits and in the door below a long groove mills then the door would be also led, however, one does not see the plastic guidance. I get on because with our flats in thus, however, is not solved with plastic corners separate metal. metal corner also hold longer. many greets from Gemany
Very helpful video. I'm installing the same doors and instructions are a little vague. Thanks for the tip on cutting the door guide. I am going to use a little RTV silicone to secure to cement floor. I was not sure how to cover the track with moulding, but now I have an idea.Thanks!
You made this look so easy. Thanks. I’m nervous to try. The explanation about the tracks from the inside and the the 3 inch wood insert is a little confusing.
Keep up the good work dude. Maybe mention when you are using a particular tool each video that it is available on your web site? (with a link in the description)Just to squeeze in an extra plug. 👍
+The Samurai Carpenter yeah I'm hearing ya dude. I know you got it sorted. Very excited for you, looking forward to seeing where the channel goes. I'll be sure to show my support and get something shipped over here to Australia. Cheers.
+Andy Collier Mine just discovered PP and it is a welcome switch from Curious George. My middle boy is starting to speak English now instead of making monkey noises all day. Ah the dad life....dangerous exhaustion mixed with pure joy. Gotta love it!
My cure for the bottom of the door is to make a wooden guide block instead of the ever so lovely plastic one. I have at times made a wooden track for the bottom and all the way across.
You had me at PL. I almost can't keep myself from using that. It's like a calling card. Maybe just hide a little blob inside a wall somewhere if it's the only way to use some on a given job. And I'm not exaggerating at all I would never in a million years ever exaggerate anything. Ever.
Personally I would have powder coated/sprayed the aluminium track before installing, since the door is hung, the only part of the track which needs low friction is the inside of the track, the outside could have been painted. Also that prebought bottom guide is ugly, might be worth screwing some 3mm aluminium strip to the bottom edge of the inside face of the door leaf and then making a concealed aluminium door guide at the bottom. Would have been a pretty alternative and completely from the corridor side of the door. But other than that good job,
Don't cut the track head an inch short!?!?!?! Cut it to the correct width and place the wheels in the track before you install it. That way you won't have a hideous 1" gap on each side.
Awesome! Just caught this video from a blog where someone else embeded. Great vid man! Will be doing this at my place for sure. Also going to be installing a door from Art Of Division soon too. DIY sliding doors that you customize and they send to you ready to install pretty quickly. Check it out sometime.
Is it possible to convert existing bifold doors into a functional sliding door by replacing the bifold hinges with a flat bracket? Will that work with standard sliding track hardware? I know it sounds silly but I'm cheap af and bifold doors are the absolute worst
Sir I bought a bi-Fold door at Lowes , it's kinda of heavy it has 3 panels of glass on each door side when I tried to put it on it didn't fit , the door opening is 35 and 1/4 the Bi- Fold door is 36, should I cut about 1 inch off the width of one door ? or will I hit the glass inside ?? and what about its weight, the crews started coming out from the track brackets on my first try, can you help me ??
2 things. 1. Didn't realize how crazy tall you were until this video and 2. I had to laugh hearing paw patrol going on in the background... and then cry when I realized I knew it was paw patrol just from the voices and names of it
Great vid man but I have one question. That front door to your home. Was it made by you or store bough?. Been contemplating building a new front door to my house but have been a little indecisive on a design and also about insulating them due to low winter temps in my area.
The Samurai Carpenter Ah ok. If it matched my place and I had the cash I would say ship it over when ya get a new one. But wife, kid, and taxes come first.
What kind of hardware is that? Looking for a quality bypass door hardware set that will hold solid core slab doors, but the rails at big box stores seem cheaper.
1:15- this is where I'm having trouble! I can't get my screws to grab into anything above the closet door. It's like there's drywall, then an empty space, then a metal plate (?). And even with a metal drill bit, I can't drill any further. So my screws don't grab. What's the solution? (I have those exact tracks).
+J DeWitt DIY now that i live in Japan, and I know how those japanese sliding doors are done, all in wood, no ball bearings, no wheels, nothing. It seem really silly for me to see those western styles doors. but you did a good job bro ;)
+Hugo Tremolo When the day comes for me to build my own house, that is the way I will do it. This house is great for now but I bought it with the shop in mind and have plans to turn it into a rental property when we can afford an acreage. That is why I'm not taking my time with this reno.
+The Samurai Carpenter yeah bro don't worry you are doing a good job ! few months back I didn't know how the proper japanese sliding doors were made, and when I arrived here, I can see how amazingly simple and long lasting it is ! but I know if I go back to be a carpenter in a western country... I will have install the same kind of doors like you for customer... (or import the knowledge of japanese master daiku !! maybe...) anyway, great channel bro, you're doing a good job ;)
+Hugo Tremolo Each region seems to have different styles for closet doors... Where I live, the most popular style is them rolling on a rail on the floor with an inverted "U" guide on the ceiling. I had never seen the sliding style presented in the video!
my master bedroom closet has bifold doors..... but it has 2 pairs because it is a very wide space (95 inches wide). I do want to make it bypass doors instead, but what would you suggest for that wide of a space? 2 tracks with 2 bypass doors on each half? a long track with 2 wide doors?
