How To Remove Hinged Closet Doors

Go inside your closet and look at the back of your doors.

How to remove hinged closet doors.

Look at the top and bottom of your door for brackets. You re going to be destabilizing your door so it s really important. Using the scored line as a guide use a hammer and chisel to remove enough wood from the door s edge so each hinge lays flat in. Get the corresponding screwdriver and go back into your closet.

Next carefully lift the door up at a slight angle to remove the bottom rollers from the track. Check the screws on those brackets to determine whether you need a philips or flathead screwdriver to remove them. Then angle the door towards you and pull gently detaching the door from its top track. Score along the marked lines on the door edges with utility knife.

Open your closet doors and go inside the closet. Once this is complete repeat the process with the inside closet door. Open the folding door so that you can grasp both halves of the hinged door together like a sandwich. Remove the outside closet door by first sliding the door to the center of the track.

Make sure you ve got the right tools. This video will show you how to remove and reinstall an interior door. This video will show you how to remove and reinstall an interior door. Before you take to removing the hinge pins it s good form to make sure you.

When pressed down pull the door from the track. Close the door and if you don t have a specific hinge pin removal tool just tap the hinge pins loose with a. Removing the door 1. Loosen the hinge pin.

Tap the pin up. The simple way to remove a door. Lodge a book underneath the door for support. Once both pivots are out of their tracks remove the doors completely.

Once the top snugger is out of the track simply lift the door up and out of the bottom jamb.