How To Fit Sliding Wardrobe Doors Into An Alcove

Bi fold doors are more practical in smaller alcove spaces.

How to fit sliding wardrobe doors into an alcove.

Lift up on the old doors until the rollers come off the track. There will also be an 18mm thick liner on the floor that the track will fix to. To fit a more substantial door you will probably need to fit a door frame around the alcove opening. Install our sliding wardrobe doors fully across the room so that the two alcoves and chimney breast are integrated into one feature.

How to install sliding wardrobe doors by spacemaker wardrobes. For wooden tracks coated with paint use a utility knife at the edge of the track. When moving into my second stockholm apartment in sweden i realized that the entire place needed a renovation one of the things that caught my eye was the sleeping area sovalkove in swedish. Opening height reducer reduce your height from 127mm to 457mm.

Sliding doors might be possible in some situations. Angle them toward you as you lower the top guide away from the top track step 2 remove the old tracks. Fix the pieces of drywall to the frame using drywall screws don t do the edges near the external bead or near the door opening as these will be covered by j shaped metal profiles. A fabulous idea for bedroom alcoves is to include a flat screen television on the chimney breast so that when the two central doors are slid apart they reveal the screen.

Fitting sliding doors over entryways. If your opening space is too large then don t worry. You will then be able to hang one or two hinged doors from it. Step 1 remove the old doors.

Be sure to check the instructions for your specific project. We have the accessories to help. This will stop the adjacent paint from potentially peeling. If you want to install completely new sliding doors then start by removing the old doors and tracks.

To fit sliding doors you ll likely need the following tools. It will stick out from the alcove at one side by about 10cm in order to give adequate depth and have a liner running up the wall at the other end for the doors to close against. Pax 150cm sliding door grey description. Creating your sliding wardrobe doors couldn t be simpler.

Put the profiles up the door surrounds all the way around the opening see images and the external 90 degree corner bead.