How To Repair A Stuck Metal Folding Door

When a bifold door opens or closes poorly, adjusting it is usually easy. On the "hinge" side of the door, a pin at the door's bottom corner typically rests in a floor bracket, and a spring-mounted pin at the elevation corner engages a sliding bracket that locks into the track. If the folding door'due south hardware is missing or damaged, you'll demand to replace it. Y'all can purchase folding door hardware online.

Folding doors save space, allow good access. — Folding doors save space, allow proficient admission but can come off their pivots.

Bifold Door Drags

When the door drags or pops out of its track, information technology normally means that one of these two pivots has moved.

1 Open the door, making certain its upper guide roller is in the track.

2 Check the bottom corner pin pin. Be sure it'southward properly engaged in the flooring bracket and adjusted to allow about 1/xvi-inch clearance from the jamb at the bottom corner of the door when the door is closed. To adjust its position, lift the door upward (the top pin is spring-loaded to allow this).

three Check the top pivot pin. A very common occurrence is that the sliding bracket has loosened and has slid out of position. Align it so the hinge side of the door is plumb, with about one/16-inch clearance from the jamb when closed, and tighten the sliding bracket into the track.

4 Adjust the hinge side of the door up or down by turning the bottom pin, which is threaded like a bolt. With some types, y'all must outset lift information technology out of the floor bracket.

Bifold Door Is Loose

When the door is loose and wobbly, 1 of the pivot pins has probably worn away at its seat in the door (a hole) and come up loose. The prepare is to remove the pivot, make full the hole with a dowel plug, and and then re-drill a hole nearly the aforementioned location.

1 Lift the door upwards and out at the bottom to remove information technology.

2 Pull the loose pivot pivot out of its pigsty.

3 Overstate the hole with a drill or hole saw and so that it's perfectly round and will receive a wooden dowel plug.

4 Spread glue onto the dowel plug, and tap it into the hole. Wipe abroad any backlog glue.

5 Cut off the dowel, making sure it is flush with the door.

6 Drill a new hole to receive the pivot pin. If the pin is damaged, replace it.