How to Maintain Sliding Closet Doors

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Tim Gibson and I'm going to talk to you about how to maintain sliding doors. Now if your doors are a little tight, the first thing that you want to check is behind this molding you have a metal channel and that will be attached to the joist up underneath here typically with some kind of screw. In this case we've got Phillip head screws up there. So the first thing you want to check is you want to just make sure that each of these are tight and that there's no movement to that track. Because if that track gets loose and sags any then it can cause the door to drag on the bottom. Now the next thing to look at is on the back of the doors are the rollers that are attached to the door that run inside the track. You want to check for the security of those and just make sure that they're nice and tight to the door, or that there's no movement. Now another thing you can do with the rollers, mostly these rollers are a plastic or metal type roller and the best way to lubricate those and to keep them running smooth and quiet is to take a little bit of petroleum jelly and just reach up in there and coat the wheel with it. Okay, if you just rub it with your finger around that wheel, that'll add enough lubrication to keep that running nice and smooth. Okay, the next thing to check is down here at the base, you'll have this retainer at the base and you want to make sure that this is secured so that the height of that is just above the bottom of the door. Now typically these runners are plastic and are subject to break off occasionally. If that is broken it'll keep your door from staying in place and that's something that you can pick up at your local hardware store if you ever have to replace that. Essentially if you keep it lubricated and keep everything tight, your doors will work just fine. I'm Tim Gibson and that's how to maintain closet sliding doors."