Adjusting Bifold Doors Height

Open the bifold doors slightly and the hardware is where the doors hinge.

Adjusting bifold doors height.

Or gently lift the door off the lower bracket with a flat pry bar. Two reasons that i can think of that would require you to adjust the height of the door. Some doors will have nuts attached to the bolts so that the height can be locked in place. Squirt some pva wood glue in to the screw holes first then bang in as many match sticks as will fit.

Turn the bottom pivot height adjustment to lower it if possible. If your bifold doors are dragging however and appear to be sitting a little low or are sometimes popping out of their track when you use the door you can adjust the height using the hinge bolts until they stay in place extending it to raise the doors and pushing it in to lower them. Adjust these as needed to maintain the height. If you extend these bolts the door will be raised.

Alternatively plug the screw holes with a rawl plug or lots of matchsticks. Adjusting the height of the inner edge of the bifold doors doesn t require you to remove them from the brackets so the process is a fairly simple one. Adjusting bifold door height is accomplished by using the second adjustment feature of the bottom pivot pin. To replace the door follow the steps in photo 2 in reverse order.

Here your main concern is with the hinge bolts. Locate the bolt positioned at the bottom and extend it in order to lower the bifold door or retract it to make the door higher. Bifold doors contain two separate door panels that are connected with hinges forming one bifold door. Adjust the height if your bifold doors are dragging along the hinges or come out of their tracks when you open them then this could indicate a problem with the height.

To adjust a door in this instance i either use better longer wood screws and try to fix deeper through the frame into the timber stud behind that the frame is fixed to. Depending on the size of the door opening it holds either one or two sets of bifold doors. Whether your bifold doors contain two panels or four panels adjust the doors similarly if they continually pop back open after you close them.