Im replacing doors in a house about 30 yrs old. There is a pocket door to a bathroom I cant quite figure out how to remove. I dont see (or feel) any type of hardware I can access to remove the old door and install a new one. Ive warned the customer that it might take tearing down the wall to remove, it which case I’ll have to come up with a plan B…..
Any advice?
Thanks
Pete
Replies
Two possibilities:
1. Look carefully at the head jamb and the casing attached to it on both sides of the door. With maintainance or repair in mind, one side will be attached so that it can be easily removed, thereby giving access to the rollers and the cam that secures the roller trucks to the plates on the top of the door.
2. More likely, the jambs and casing were nailed up securely so you will have to decide which side you will carefully remove so you don't have too much trouble matching paint or stain or even obsolete casing style.
I may have run into this one before. On one retrofit the original installer invented the pocket door hardware by modifying bi-pass track and hardware.
Plan B: The only way to get the door off was to remove the full jamb and top header jambs to give the door enough room to swing through and off the track. Simple enough job to remove and re-case, just take it easy so you can re-use the casing if you can't replace it. First remove the half header on one side as mentioned before. Forget about the wall I can't see why you would ever have to get into the wall.
sometimes board sometimes knot