Repair Your Broken BiFold Closet Door Quickly and with Ease
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2022
- Sometimes the Pivot Pin or the Roller on your Bi-Fold door wears out the hole they sit in. In this video I will show you how to easily repair a broken bifold door roller or pivot hole.
Repair Plate:
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You are a lifesaver I did not know this thing existed in regards to that strap
That's awesome! So glad to help... 😊
This is exactly the video i was looking for! My closet is 93x24.5 so i really want to keep this nice looking doors ! Thank you so much
Excellent! You're welcome and I'm glad I could help.. 😀
Finally! Someone who knows how to do it right. You saved me! Thank you so much! All hardware will arrive from Amazon in 2 days. This job can finally be checked off. And it will be done right. Awesome video!
TYSM! Good luck with the repair.. 😎
Video was awesome! Fixed my door right up!
Thank you for the great feedback! So glad to help.. 😊
thank you so much for the information.
You're welcome!
Appreciate this just ordered parts from your link. 👍🏼
Excellent! So glad I could help...
appreciate it sir - saved the day!!
Excellent!
I pushed my closet door really hard and the housing inside snapped in half. Thank you for this!!!! Liked and subscribed!
Thanks for the sub! Glad you were able to get it going again... 😀
Thanks Rudy!
You're welcome! Glad to help.. 😊
thanks for this video.
You're welcome!
My man you are doing God’s work
TYSM!
Nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.👍
You're welcome..
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel My door problem is scru in the Bolton. Can a use the same madodo you did at the top?
@@anariley2981 Yes u shouldn't have any problems..
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel Thanks
LIFE SAVER!!!!!!
I'm so glad I could help!... 😊
Thank you so much. I thought I was going to have to buy a new closet door.
You're welcome! Glad I was able to help.. 😀
Thank you. I have gotten over my anxiety as to how to fix my closet door.
That's excellent! You're welcome. So glad I was able to help.. 😊
Thanks I fixed my closet door lol I just didn’t know how to put it back on lol been on the floor for a month or so now lol
That's awesome! SO glad I could help...
Awesome Video. Where can I buy the top rail/guides?
The guides and track you can buy on Amazon, I haven't seen the track at local hardware stores..
Thank you for showing how to repair a bifold door. What I have is a missing door and do not know what size door to purchase as a replacement. The opening is 35" X 80" but some space on each end is needed for a proper fit. How should I determine the width of a new door?
Robert
HI.. Yea the opening is a bit small. I'm not sure if they ever had a door there. The door sizes go from 30 to 36. It's possible you might be able to special order a 34 inch door, but it'd probably be expensive. If it were me, I'd get a 36" door and rip 3/4 off each side to make it 34.5. A table saw will give the best straightest results. Problem is, the wood strips on the perimeter of the door are probably about 3/4 thick so the hollow core will probably be exposed. You can take a chisel and chip off the two surfaces of the wood permitter to make it fit again and just glue it back. You can use small staples or something like that to reinforce it. I know this is not an ideal fix, but other than that, you'll have to re-do the opening to fit the right size door.
Will this also work for the bottom of the bi fold closet door? Both sides of my closet doors have broken and it no longer stays on the pocket(?) so it’s flush to the floor.
Yes absolutely
Awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Definitely will follow! 🥰👏🏼
Would a plate work for a roller pin also?
HI, You can use that repair plate in any position in the door. Top or bottom...
Where's the link for the hardware?
Its in the description...
My pivot pin on the bottom broke but there is no solid piece on the bottom the screw the plate into. It is just a hallow door and it had a tiny piece of particle board to hold the pivot pin but that broke. How would I attach the plate???
Yikes! If it were me, I'd cut a section out of the bottom of the door 3 or 4 inches long... leaving the skin on the door front and back so your just taking out the bottom hollow part and put in a piece of solid wood there. Glue it in with some real good wood glue... then you won't need a plate, you'll have a fresh surface to put the original pivot pin into. You could tack the wood in with some small staples or finish nails if you want to to help the glue.
Can you do this for the bottom also??
Yes absolutely.... 😀
Awesome. Thank you.
You're welcome...@@muffypooh07
Where do I get the plate
HI, I got this one from Amazon. I might have left a link in the description. I think the title is "Bi-fold door repair bracket" and it should come up.
If you reverse the plate and install it flush with the end of the door, it is designed to place the hole in the correct spot.
Not sure its designed that way... I'd rather have it in the position shown since there will be much more "meat" for the screws to grab to... 😀
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel That is exactly how it is designed. Placing it properly as designed also places the screw hole over the wood at the edge of the door where it will be securely held, not over the MDF that is used in cheap bifold doors between the wooden edge pieces.
@@BarryThistlethwaite I actually measured the distance from end of door to where the pin is, and the distance on the bracket and they were a little off, so that wouldn't exactly work just that easy without a modification...
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel Too bad. Perhaps it's coincidence, but lining the plate up flush with the end of the door on my two bifold doors placed the pinhole exactly over the original pivot holes, with the screw hole just far enough from the edge of the door to hold it fast when screwed into the wood. No alteration needed. My doors are older, wooden bifold doors with no MDF. A month later, they're working perfectly.
@@BarryThistlethwaite Probably different manufacturers put the pin hole in a slightly different spot... 😀
What if the little part holding the pivot pin has completely come off of the slot? Then what do I do?
Do you mean the pivot pin has come out of it's plastic housing, and the housing is still in the door? If so, sometimes you can push it back in, but I'm not sure if that what you mean...
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel I got it fixed, actually! I had to stand on a chair so that I could unscrew the screw holding the piece together; apparently it had bent so I had to fix that too. I put it back into the housing correctly and now it works again. It's all good now!
Oh excellent! Glad you got it back on the road.. 😀
Love your clear instructions but the part where you said it was “easy” I don’t agree with. Drilling a hole in a metal plate is not something I have tools for.
If I remember right, I think I drilled an extra hole in the plate because I wasn't satisfied with the one hole that they give you. You don't have to drill an extra hole. ( I could be remembering wrong)..
Too bad the bracket isn’t readily available in stores 😢
Would filling the hole with wood filler or caulk suffice?
Not really if you're going to re-use the same hole and put the pivots back in... You could cut out a section completely and glue in a piece of wood in place of it. I'd cut out at least a 6" section so that you'll have enough meat to anchor it to and redrill the wood in the same place as the original was. To cut across the door, you know the 1 3/8 side, you might have to use a small drill bit and drill several tiny holes and then use a chisel to break it loose..
I don’t see why you can’t fill the hole with jb quick or metal putty filler. Then drill hole same size as pin needs. The auto part store sells few different kind of fillers in tubes. You knead them with your fingers to mix compound. Then push into hole and redrill with size needed for pin.
@@beenheredoneit.4381 Yes I know about those... Not sure it would stick to what I could call compressed paper! It might last for a little while, but I doubt it would last over time. I've never tried that so I don't know.
what is the name of the replacement plate?
I think it was a bi-fold door repair bracket. There should be a link to it in the description..
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel thank u
YW... 😀
Where to get the plate?
How you measure if it gonna fit your door
So say it's a 48 inch opening by 81 high... that's going to fit two 24" doors... Most doors are 18, 24, 30, 36 and they're all about 79 tall. So your opening can be slightly larger, but not smaller. For example for a 48" opening, your opening can be 48 1/2, but not 47 1/2.... can be a little taller than 81, but not 80 ... it'll wind up to short. Hope that makes sense.
Man, Rudy is one hairy dude!
Ok thanks!
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel Np Rudy! Good video as well, I'm needing to replace the wood itself because the previous owners messed it up so bad and has a bunch of super glue inside it. But for sure im going to use those brackets you shown too!
Excellent! Yep they work great.. 😀
Toggle bolt? Are you crazy?😂
What toggle bolt? There's no toggle bolt.. 😊