I have old nasty sliding closet doors from the 1970s. They are 96" by 42", weigh about 30 pounds apiece, fall out of the top track and break the plastic guide on the floor due to their weight (see picture of bottom of door and broken guide).
What is out there that I can replace these ugly monsters with?
Almost any type of door can be considered an option. What are you looking for? Do you want another sliding door option? do you want to replace with hinged doors?
All of our doors are solid wood, mostly 6 panel. When we had our wood (actually crap luan) sliding closet doors replaced the contractor wanted to put in faux 6 panel masonite sliders. I wanted wood. He convinced me to give the masonite doors a try. I am glad that he did. They are light weight, problem free and inexpensive.
6 panel doors are a stock item at most home centers and lumber yards. It's nothing special or anything you need to order online. Just do a search and many options will appear or you can see them in the store. You'll need to know what size you need. Plus, you may still want to replace the hardware like XSleeper mentioned which can help keep them on track. New door panels using your old hardware probably won't be much of an improvement except for being lighter in weight.
I have a 1979 Pella casement double window, each with two panes of glass and a tiltable "slim shade" between them. I broke the inside, removeable glass pane in the left window. Pella does not stock these window panes. Local glass company won't touch it because of the rubber/metal edging to the glass with moveable clips to hold the pane in place and the plastic knob in the lower right corner of the pane which controls the tilt of the shade. Any ideas other than getting a new casement window put in?
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[i]Complete inside view of casement window[/i]
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[i]Left inside glass pane is broken[/i]
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Hi, have a Pella patio door and one of the hinge adjusters never worked. It's not out of adjustment enough to affect the door operation but the gap at the top of door is obviously larger so would like to fix it. When I turn the torx the hinge plate does not move like the others.
I have not tried to unscrew the hinge on the door, is this something I can do to determine whats wrong? No idea what the mechanism inside there looks like. I will try turning the phillips screws by hand first and if too tight will use an impact to avoid stripping. I'm guessing those are actually machine screws.
Thanks
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