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Removing Folding Closet Doors

Nathan Rightnour

5 years ago

Hi everyone. I'm in an apartment and need to take down my closet doors because they protrude too far into the room, eating up the little space I have, and I have acoustic treatment in the closet that will make the room sound less reverberant. It's two folding doors:

I want to remove them correctly but I'm not quite sure how this mechanism works. Can anyone give any pointers?

The first photo below is the left door, top, against the wall. The next one is back a few steps.

My main question is how to get the wheels off the track. It doesn't seem possible because the ends (first photo) are so solidly screwed in. It's not like those shower doors that easily come off the tracks.

If you're wondering, yes I'm keeping them for re-installation when I move out.

Thanks in advance!

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Comments (4)

klem1
5 years ago
You'll need a hard hat. You'll know why before you are finished. (:

At top of door that travel's,reach in with knife blade or flat screwdriver and depress peg so that it will clear track and come out freeing that end of door. With your back to inside closet,hold each half of door (one in each hand) and lift. The peg at bottom against wall should come out of it's hole allowing bottoms of doors to swing out. If lifting doesn't pull peg completely out of hole,look for wrench flats on bottom and/or top posts. As posts are turned,they will shorten enough to come out at bottom when door is lifted. Come back to tell us what size knots you got when doors fell on your head.
Nathan Rightnour
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks for the tips klem!

Which peg am I supposed to depress?
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No need for a hard hat. Open the doors and fold them open all the way so that the two panels are folded together. Grab the door and lift straight up, making sure to keep the panels folded together. Lift it enough so the bottom peg is released from its track. Angle the door out of the bottom track; it should come out of the top track pretty easily when angling the bottom out. Repeat with the other door.

*When angling the door out, make sure you’re tilting the door so that the bottom half of it is pulled toward you and not away from you. If you tilt it away from you, the bottom might swing in toward the closet and you might regret not wearing that hard hat.
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^^^^^ What Lindsey_9002 wrote. That's how I remove mine.

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