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To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below It's a 70s home and the master bedroom has a wonderfully large closet with a very heavy double-panel sliding door. Beside the obvious drawback that we can't both use it at the same time (opening one side means the other side is blocked by both panels), it's ugly and heavy. Any research into replacement doors reveals that nobody has made closets with doors that style in a few decades. I'd appreciate any ideas or pointers toward alternate door solutions. (sorry about my lack of terminology, I'll be happy to clear up any missing/ambiguous info if necessary) ~edit~ To clear up, the width is the problem: It's an 81 inch opening, outside of the track for the sliding panels. Height is 96" (to the ceiling). I had basically the same situation in my 70's-built house, the closet doors went all the way to the roof, and were horrible looking bi-folds. Basically what I did is framed in a header to bring the opening to 81" (remember to account for 1/2" drywall while framing):
Then some drywall and paint (note I didn't yet repaint the ceiling in this picture): I had 4 closets like this. One by the front door got sliding mirror doors, the rest got frosted-glass sliding doors. The right picture below is actually the "after" shot of the first one in this answer. The width is going to be challenging for stock stuff. If it was a bit wider, you could probably split the door into two by putting a small column in the middle, but that would leave you with a couple 3.5' doors, which are pretty small. If you went to bi-folds, you might be able to do a 4' and a 2' door, though that might look a bit strange. A quick search turns up some custom closet door manufacturers, which might be an option to get multi-panel sliding doors, like this: If you do this you can probably also get them 8' high, but honestly, even without the doors on, just making the opening 81" really updated the look of the house. Yet another option is that you could shrink the width down to 72" (basically just extend the wall/framing on one side by 9"), and along with making the height 81", you're into a standard size where you can get both sliding or bi-fold doors off the shelf from any box store.
Good luck, and let us know how it turns out One option might be to get a set of bi-fold doors. Hanging one on each side of the opening would mean you will lose a few inches on each side when the doors are open, but the distance that they would cut into a room would be much less than the full door. With an 81 inch opening you should be able to lose a few inches and the opening would still be big enough for two people. Bi-folds are cheap, come in a variety of sizes and designs and are pretty easy to install. Before doing any of this however two tips: first, check the opening to see if it's square and level. If it is then the job should be pretty straightforward and easy, if not it's still doable, just a little harder. Second, empty the closet before you start.Browse other questions tagged doors replacement or ask your own question.Skip to main content. Home Guides Home Home Improvement Troubleshoot, Fix and Repair How to Determine Bifold Door Opening Size Bifold doors fold in half when you open them.
A bifold door consists of a pair of panels attached to each other with hinges. When you open the door, instead of swinging in or out, it folds in half at the hinge and slides on runners to the side of the doorway. Because the open door extends only half as far into the room as a swinging door does, bifold doors are suitable for closing off small spaces, such as closets and laundry cupboards. Wide closets might need two bifold doors side by side. Before you buy the doors, measure the opening to determine what size to get. Measure the width of the opening at the top, middle and bottom. Save the smallest of these measurements. Check whether the opening already has trim installed. If it does, subtract 1 inch from the width to determine the appropriate width of the door. If the opening doesn't have trim yet, subtract 2 inches from the width; the extra space gives you room to add the trim. Measure the height of the opening in three places. Use the smallest of these measurements. Subtract 2 inches from the height of the opening to determine the height of the door, if the opening does not yet have trim installed.
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“We often get into small spaces, but this was a small ‘wet room’ with a toilet and shower in a space of about 48 inches by 48 inches,” says Erica Chandler, co-owner of DEsigned Glass, Burnsville, Minn.Due to the location of the toilet, installers had no room for a swing door, and because the shower is a steam unit, the homeowner did not want a bypass door. The DEsigned Glass team decided to use a bi-fold door, 36 inches wide, or two 18-inch panels. The total opening is 47 inches wide by 90 inches tall. The team had to seal the whole opening because the unit is also a steam shower. They chose to use a “floating” transom secured on three sides with a U-channel, “basically just floating over the entire bi-fold door and panel,” Chandler says.DEsigned Glass used a pinnacle hinge from C.R. Laurence Co., Los Angeles, on the wall, and CRL’s Zurich glass-to-glass hinge for the bi-fold hinge that is able to fold the glass in or out. Agalite, Seattle, supplied the glass. Installers left a “tail” on the U-channel so the door would lock into the channel and stay tightly shut while the steam unit was in use.