How to quickly adjust compartment doors in a closet so that they don’t “fly off” in the future

• Common Problems
• Hull repair
• Failure of fittings for internal filling

• How to update wardrobe doors
• Updating the appearance of the wardrobe

Restoring a wardrobe with your own hands will give you the opportunity to save on the purchase of this useful interior detail. An old or broken cabinet can be repaired and updated without much difficulty. The most common cause of breakdowns is considered to be door malfunctions, and restorations are the loss of the surface's appearance. Now we will look at several options on how to update an old wardrobe with your own hands and fix existing problems.

Common Problems

Before you repair your wardrobe and update its appearance, you should understand the type of damage. Among the most common we highlight the following:

• damage to the cabinet body or internal partitions;
• failure of fittings for internal filling;
• failure of the roller system and door closers;
• loss of aesthetic and commercial appearance of both the entire product and its individual elements;

In all these cases, it is quite possible to repair the wardrobe yourself, for which you will need components and tools.

Replacing doors

A complete replacement of sliding doors makes sense if the design has completely fallen into disrepair or does not correspond to modern design trends.

For a global rework you need:

• Decide on a design. Choose a more modern material - glossy and mirror surfaces visually increase the space; you can use a combined option. You can select a design using a large number of photographs on the Internet;
• decide on the sizes. If the cabinet has a non-standard size, the guides and horizontal profile must be trimmed;
• purchase or order from the workshop all the necessary components and equip the place;
• prepare all the details. Carry out cutting and drilling;
• assemble the structure and install it in place of the old one.

Hull repair

First of all, remove the cabinet doors, then, if necessary, remove the lower and upper guides. Next, you may need either complete or partial disassembly of the housing - to fix it, they often use either an eccentric tie or so-called Euroscrews, which must be unscrewed. If necessary, you need to order additional sets of fasteners.

If the case has mechanical damage, the panel will have to be replaced. By the way, it is recommended to buy components for sliding wardrobes in advance in those sets that will be needed.

Accessories for wardrobes

Accessories for wardrobes

Laminated chipboard panels are most often used to repair the body. You can replace the entire panel, or you can replace only a part, if the design allows it. In any case, you should carefully adjust the dimensions to the existing furniture format.

Knowing how to fix a wardrobe, you will not encounter serious problems. You should pay attention to the correct installation of the doors - first install the body using a level, then install the doors and achieve the correct location by adjusting the screws on the rollers.

How to fix: basic methods

Let's look at how to fix specific problems with doors.

Adjusting the hinges

What can be adjusted in them? A standard hinge for swing doors includes the following adjustment elements:

1. Two screws that secure the hinge to the plane of the door or the side of the cabinet. They fix the hinge in a vertical plane: by moving them, you can raise and lower the door. In addition, the force with which these screws were tightened determines the backlash and alignment of the plane of rotation of the element.
2. Adjustment screw. It is located closer to the back of the cabinet, and the gap between the door and the end of the side panel depends on its position. You cannot do without a gap, otherwise the door, when opening and closing, will begin to rub and grind against the end of the side panel, so a gap will still appear, but in a place that was not provided for by the design of the furniture.
3. Sometimes there is an additional screw that is responsible for the tilt of the door and the gap between the doors when they are closed.

Adjustment:

If one door is higher than the other when closed, they need to be leveled. To do this, select the “problem” sash, loosen all two or three fastening screws on it, then align it with the working door (if necessary, using a carpenter’s level or a laser tool to maintain the planes and verticality of the sash).

When the correct position is achieved, the loosened screws are tightened again and firmly to prevent the door from moving in the future. The screw heads can be secured with glue or sticker.

If, when closing the doors, the gap is too large or, on the contrary, is completely absent, which is why one door clings to the other, you need to adjust the plane of the doors. To do this, the nearest screw is loosened, and the doors are shifted relative to each other so that they take the correct position provided for by the design of the furniture.

When the correct position is achieved, the screws are fixed, tightened and firmly secured in the desired position.

The video talks about adjusting cabinet hinges:

Correction of mechanical damage

If the door does not open because the cabinet itself is mechanically damaged, you must proceed as follows:

1. Check the geometry of the cabinet itself. To do this, you need to check the equality of the diagonals with a thread, and use a level to check the horizontal and vertical positions of the shelves with guides.
2. If distortions are found, they must be corrected. Correct skewed elements by loosening and tightening fasteners. If the cabinet is assembled rigidly (with nails or screws), it may be necessary to completely dismantle the structure and reassemble it in the correct position.
3. If deformation of the structural elements themselves has occurred, they must be adjusted to their location. For this purpose, hemming, stitching, and trimming of deformed parts of furniture are used.

How to update wardrobe doors

In principle, mechanical problems (loose closure, play, difficulties in moving) are a reason to completely update the part. You can even completely replace them by choosing suitable sliding doors for your wardrobe. You should focus on the dimensions of the models, since the doors only fit the size of the cabinet itself. If the furniture is made to order, you will have to order parts and call a measurer.

Before you repair the wardrobe doors, you should eliminate the other furniture problems described above. Next, we remove the doors and install new ones. We begin the installation by attaching the guides, first of all the top track is attached. It is necessary to fasten the track with self-tapping screws, making holes in the case every 50-60 mm.

Installation of the upper profile

Next we work on the bottom track, but do not fix it, but only mark the places for the screws. Repairing a wardrobe door with your own hands involves a precisely calibrated level - we do the fastening after installation.

We attach rollers to the door leaf and insert the door into the guides, checking how the door moves along the tracks. There should not be too much play or difficulty in moving. Using a mounting level, we achieve a perfectly vertical position of the part. Once this is achieved, we fasten the lower track in its existing position, taking into account the vertical.

Sliding systems for sliding wardrobes are quite heavy, so before final fastening you should check the vertical level of the entire cabinet.

What causes the door to pop off?

If a person finds that even after correct adjustment he has certain problems with the cabinet and rollers, then he needs to solve the problem and re-adjust the structure himself.

The most important thing is to determine the reason why the door jumps off the tracks. This could be due to either poor assembly or incorrect placement of the doors. The most common reasons why doors begin to fly off include:

1. Door warp.
2. Peeled off tape if the design was on it.
3. Loose fasteners.
4. Penetration of foreign objects into the frame rails.
5. Sharp manipulations on the part of the owner.

Each reason is solved by its own setting.

Door distortion

First you need to remove the buffer tape, and then you need to insert a key into the lower hole intended for adjusting the position. Next, the direction is determined. At this time, you need to pay attention to the position of the door. By rotating, you can adjust the skew and correct it.

To understand that the door is in the correct position, you need to make sure that the door leaf is adjacent to the side post. After this, the web is held in place using a stopper. You need to continue adjusting until the very end.

Peeling off the tape

You can restore its position using:

• filling it into the hole;
• applying glue;
• clothespins.

The best option is clothespins. The first option will help those who have a fairly long ribbon. The second one is for neat people, since the glue should not seep into the holes. Clothespins will help secure the correct wedge.

Weakened elements

Weakened parts can be heard. As a rule, the doors begin to make annoying sounds. To correct the situation, parts are tightened or completely replaced.

Advice! It is worth selecting replacement elements from the same manufacturer.

Foreign objects

Various foreign objects, including pieces of paper and stones, could have gotten into the rails themselves. They need to be removed. This can be done with a vacuum cleaner or with your own hands. After this, the door will move normally and you won’t even have to adjust it.

External factors

If you constantly close and open the door, you can break the mechanism and parts of the structure. To prevent this from happening, you need to work carefully with the cabinet doors.

When a cabinet door breaks due to harsh actions, the parts need to be replaced. Replacement occurs in the same way as for any other part.

This way you can adjust the wardrobe. After adjustment, the owner receives a high-quality structure that can last for many years. The main thing is to find out the cause of the interference, and also initially correctly adjust the direction.

Updating the appearance of the wardrobe

Other repair options include general painting of furniture. It is advisable to use acrylic paints for these purposes. This allows you to significantly update the entire appearance of the cabinet - for painting it is simply disassembled according to the above algorithms. Before painting, it is necessary to sand the surface and apply a primer to it. You can use various design coloring options - it depends on your personal preferences. Or you can order a ready-made case in a new design. At the door, if you are not satisfied with the filling, you can replace it by first calculating all the dimensions of the inserts.

Now you know how to update your wardrobe without calling a specialist. This is not the most difficult job if you follow the rules and follow all the rules. Such furniture requires regular maintenance - this will allow you to save on purchasing new options.

If the roller fails

Replacing the roller, if during operation it has changed its shape or worn out, causing the door to sag and slide, is quite easy to do.

To do this you need:

• Purchase a set of new videos;
• Remove the sliding doors from the guides (each roller has a special latch);
• Unscrew the old rollers and thoroughly clean the mounting area;
• Using screws, install a new set and return the doors to their place.

It is necessary to “run in” the doors in order to, if necessary, adjust the height of each wheel.