Converting Sliding Doors to Bi-fold Doors

Last year we replaced the sliding closet doors in the front corridor This time we had to offer with carpeting and a further-established body, although we didn't have to re-construct the wall , thank goodness. In scenario any custom sliding closet door individual else is considering they'd like to adjust above their doorways, allow me present you what we did and offer you tips that we have realized alongside the way. Tools/materials you will need: - a degree - wood screws - finishing nails - nail gun - paintable caulk - wood putty - desk noticed - oscillating cutter (like a Dremel Multi-Max) 1st you are going to want to get rid of the sliding doors and the prime and base tracks. The doors must just pop out of the tracks - you may possibly have to use a screwdriver to press the base clips out of the way. The tracks are generally just screwed into the upper doorway and the flooring with a number of screws. Assuming your doorway is like ours, you'll want to frame it in and add trim. Measure the width and the height of the opening. The bi-fold doors offered at our neighborhood House Depot had been 24", thirty", and 36" vast, by 80" large. Our closet opening was about sixty one"x 81", so we needed 2-30 inch doorways and 1 inch boards to frame in the doorway. The doorway "wall" is 5 inches thick so we purchased 3-1x6x8 ft pine decide on boards for the sides and top, and a 1x4x8 ft board for the flooring (far more on that later). We also bought pre-painted trim so that the closet would match the relaxation of the corridor doorways. I took a photograph of the present bed room doorway trim with my mobile phone so that I could match it in the retailer. If you have a spare piece you can consider with you, that is even better. Framing the doorway If your baseboards wrap about the doorway you will want to take away the facet items. Carefully run a utility knife along the corner seams of the baseboard trim to different the aspect parts from the hall/area parts and together the top edge of the baseboard to individual it from the wall. If preceding paint employment have glued them to every other you can conclude up harmful the drywall if you just tear the baseboard off. As soon as the edges are scored, wedge a prybar or flathead screwdriver amongst the wall and the baseboard and pull the trim out a bit. Operate the prybar back again and forth alongside the piece of trim until you can pull it free of charge from the wall. Our linen closet and upstairs hallway are carpeted - independently from each and every other - so we needed to disguise the gap amongst carpet edges that was formerly under the door monitor. This would also supply a challenging surface area for the bottom door brackets to connect to. This base piece needed to be as flush as possible with the ground while nonetheless overhanging the carpet on each and every side so that the carpet edges ended up hidden. Tom took a piece of 1x4 inch board and routered along each side to kind a extended T-formed board.