Floor Track Antique Pocket Doors

We have 3 pocket doors in our 1910 home.

Floor track antique pocket doors.

Pocket doors come in two basic types floor track and top hung. This website gives information to homeowners caretakers and contractors who need to learn about repair and maintenance of old pocket doors. Work may also require removing the doors and replacing the rollers. It also gives your door a unique look and looks especially good on an antique door.

82 aluminum j track fit the narrow width of our track slot. Pocket door frame set the everbilt 36 in. The track is usually recessed into the floor although sometimes the track rests directly on the surface. Pocket door frame set the everbilt 36 in.

Pocket doors are sliding wooden doors that disappear into the wall and are brought out from the pockets in order. Higher than the door panel height. We offer a variety of original designs and carefully crafted styles. Olde good things antique collection is sourced from all over the world by a team of salvage.

While our inventory fluctuates we do often hold stock of pocket door lock sets as well as handles and wheels. Raydoor pocket doors eliminate the need by handling the guiding of the door with a floor guide that exists only in the pocket. Pocket door frame set is designed for use with doors up to a maximum of 80 in. Vertically and the door rough opening should be 4 in.

And the track slot was 1 1 2 in. Antique pocket door hardware is robust and durable. The door may also be warped off the floor track or off the top guide inside the pocket. Wide and 2 1 4 in.

A pocket door that is stuck may be the result of the door being nailed in place debris clogging the door track warped studs in the pocket or a damaged floor track. Our extensive and curated selection of pocket door hardware pulls and locks will transform your home. Before ordering the hardware weigh your door on a bath scale and measure the track slot and track. Vintage pocket doors were a common architectural element in residences and office buildings during the period 1875 to 1925 approximately.

Our door weighed 30 lbs. As the door extends outward from the pocket special fittings at the back or trailing part of the door maintain their connection to that concealed guide giving stability and preventing swaying of the panel. Two of them work okay but one is broken. Elegant and stylish solid brass pocket door hardware.

To reduce the track slot depth to the recommended 1 1 2 in we installed plywood spacers. This video describes what is wrong with the broken door. High and 1 3 4 in.