Fix A Sliding Door That Sticks

Inspect the rollers and replace them if damaged.

Fix a sliding door that sticks.

Turn the screw clockwise half a turn to raise the door or counterclockwise to lower it and test the door to see if it resolves the problem. Here are the basic steps. The tracks are notoriously difficult to clean so you ll have to pull out all the stops. If getting the humidity down isn t in the cards then you can always trim down the door panel.

Be sure to brush down both sides of the track as well as help scrub out the dirt that exists in the middle move the door along the track to expose the front scrub move the door back to the closed position scrub and so on. Adjustment screws are located near the wheels on the top or bottom of the door which release or create tension on the wheels effectively raising or lowering the door. Give the screw a clockwise turn and test to see whether the door slides easier. Most sliding doors have a mechanism called an adjusting screw located at the bottom of the door ends.

He taps in the plug with his hammer and glue oozes out of the hole. To fix this remove your door from the tracks clean out the rollers and spray them with a lubricant such as wd 40. Reinstall the doors and adjust the rollers to the correct height. Sliding doors move along the tracks using a set of rollers.

Concentrate on the problem edge the one that rubs against the jamb. Turning this screw raises or lowers the roller. He whittles a inch wide slightly tapered splinter out of a scrap of wood then squeezes wood glue onto it and into the screw hole. You can usually identify it by.

Next take a dry stiff scrub brush and work through corner to corner. Sliding door tracks are magnets for dirt dust pet hair bugs grass food crumbs you name it. Tighten the screws that go into the door and the screws that go into the door frame. To repair a stripped screw hole under the hinge leaf tom plugs the hole and gives the screw something new to bite into.

Most of the time the problem stems from dirty and dried up rollers. Remove the sliding door. If it s a matter of the door edge hitting the door frame use your philips screwdriver and tighten the screws on either the top middle or bottom hinge. First all you need to do is simply give the sliding door track a good scrubbing.

If the door becomes even harder to open turn the screw in the opposite direction. These rollers can become damaged dirty or broken as the years go by and cause your door to stick. First vacuum loose debris so you can see what you re working with. Replace the wheels or spring load.