Sliding Wooden Doors Sticking
Move the door back and forth like you did in step 1 to help the door glide over the oiled areas.
Sliding wooden doors sticking. Doors can start sticking for various reasons and it s always a hassle. Sliding door tracks are magnets for dirt dust pet hair bugs grass food crumbs you name it. Here are the basic steps. A more common cause is a hinge.
This will actually help to move around the lubricant into the harder to reach middle area where the door is constantly sliding and experiencing the friction that makes it stick. Tom s rule of thumb for keeping a door from sticking in the jamb is that the reveal the space between the door and jamb should be 1 8 to 3 16 inch wide or about the thickness of a nickel. Finally add the 3 in 1 oil along the track. Your door is old and worn out.
In other cases it may be the wood door edge itself scuffing on the door frame. The tracks are notoriously difficult to clean so you ll have to pull out all the stops. Take a small wood plane and gently strip the door edge where it is hitting rubbing the frame see item 2 below. Over time joints in a wood door relax causing the construction to sag and stick against the jamb.
The wood can swell in the hot and humid summer air the hinges can become loose with usage and your house can even shift and settle over time causing changes in the frame. In some instances you have a door that sticks along the strike area the metal part of the door frame where it meets the outermost edge of the door. Inspect the rollers and replace them if damaged. Yes it s that sticking door of yours.
To fix this you can adjust the height of the rollers by the screws on the rollers. Use hot soapy water and a brush to clean the tracks. Reinstall the doors and adjust the rollers to the correct height. If your sliding door is sticking or dragging along the tracks making a grinding noise the springs in the rollers could have become loose causing it to sag.
In a situation like this sometimes the door itself is to blame. The puck shape of the tea light is great for briskly rubbing over the wide frame of a door or window and the pencil like shape of the tapered candle is great for pressing into the grooves of a. Examining one sticky bedroom door in his house tom spends a little time getting a sense of its predicament. Remove the sliding door.
Next take a dry stiff scrub brush and work through corner to corner. Each time you open it there is a little grab before it releases.