I have a sliding wooden door that keeps getting jammed every time I close it. How do I fix it?

Question

I have a sliding wooden door that connects from my rec room to my laundry room and it jams every time I close it and its a nightmare to open again. What can I do to get it to open and close properly.

Answer 1

check the runner wheels oil or repalce them
oil the metel runners
soap on the wooden parts where it jams against wood

Answer 2

Try adjusting the rollers located on the bottom of the door.
There should be two holes at the bottom of the door
Just stick a screwdriver into the hole and rotate it
A good way to see if it's adjusted properly is to slide the door over until it's almost closed and rotate the screws until you have an even space between the door and the door frame.
Also make sure the track that the door rolls on is clean.
Lubricate the track with some silicone spray.

Answer 3

Does it slide along on an overhead track? Maybe dust has built up on the track and hardened? Wear gloves, as you can cut your fingers. Get on a ladder, lift the door up and off the track, clean the track out with laundry anti-static dryer sheets (they leave it sort of lubricated but not attracting dust). Use a stiff toothbrush on the wheels. Wipe dust off the brush with the dryer sheet, thus lubricating the brush, which lubricates the wheels. Use the brush on the track to get in, up, and under the edges of the track. Never use oil, you'll make dust paste that will harden. If you encounter hardened clumps of dust, use a small screwdriver to pick at them. Wipe them out of the track.

Look down on the floor and take a scrub brush or sand paper to where the door slides. Lie the door down and sand the bottom of the door. Just a bit of hand sanding to remove grime, or take vengeance on the door with a power sander and shorten it.

An old-time way used to ease wooden drawers sliding out is to rub both surfaces with candle wax. But my experience is that you have to do it pretty often. Goodwill sells lots of inexpensive candles by the baggie. Make both surfaces slick with something. Pledge, Murphy's Oil Soap, Polyurethane:ask.

Important:

Is the door a "pocket door" that slides into a prebuilt casing in the wall? Use your vacuum cleaner's longest narrow wand and a flashlight to suck out who-knows-what. You may need to use the garden leaf sucker. (Get in the spirit, this could be fun, like Ghostbusters!) WORST case scenario: You don't want to suck out insultation - put on a mask and goggles, cover the rec room side with a sheet, and as much as pos. in laundy room, and BLOW along the track and down the space, moving out as you angle downward into the space. Hopefully the worst will blow out along the floor. Insulation may blow out, so keep the place off limits for a few hours till the dust settles and you've vacuumed and mopped. Life is a mess, sometimes, but if this works......Take a shower and take tomorrow off.

Next to the laundry room, that space might be humid, thus swelling the wood. Hardware stores sell plastic tubs of moisture absorber that indicate when you need to replace them. They will be too big to sit between the studs, so scoop some into several little pudding/jello cups. You can make your own: crush chalk, or buy silica gel (on-line, I don't know where else) but I don't know when they're "full" and need to be replaced.

If the whole door has warped, if you've got that power sander out, look to see where the scuff marks are that show where the door is sticking against other wood, then sand it down at those points, and call it "shabby chic". Maybe there's room to sand the studs back, but I don't think so.

Wouldn't be nice to afford to just let your fingers do the walking?

Answer 4

It is Because of static electricity. Some tires do this and some tires don't. Get a ground strap from a car parts store and hang it on the car to put the electricity on the ground instead of through your body. Also, you could carry a metal rod and before you get out, touch the ground or something outside the car before you step out and that gets rid of the shock.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

For precaution always have a hammer when you close it ...

Answer 7

Leave it open.