Installing BI-FOLD Doors For Absolute Beginners..

Curious about the floor installation if it’s concrete

Liked this video so I clicked the thumbs up video.

This video was so helpful, you explain in a simple way it was so easy to follow everything that you said and i repaired my door, thank you

My contractor ruined all of the spring loaded pivots and even one bottom adjuster pin by hammering them in. When the door fell out, I had to replace damaged pins. I hammered them in with a deep socket to keep stress off the springs.

Hi Ruddy, Can you explain what to do when the floor isn't level? about 1" difference between the left side and right side of the opening. The most important thing is that the top should be leveled, correct?

Good job 👍

This was a great video, thank you so much! I’m a single mom and just bought my first house and the laundry room bifold doors are falling off the track. I needed to understand how these doors worked, and now I’m confident I can fix them!

Damn, Rudy has me ready to put some closet doors, and I don't need to.

Thank you sir

Hi, thanks for the video. I'm installing these in my basement with a cement floor. What do I need to do differently to mount that bottom pivot bracket when drilling/screwing into concrete? Like you said the screws are pretty weak, so which ones should I buy instead?

Great video that describes how to install these doors.

Thank you Rudy. Very helpful!

I wish my husband watched your video before he started. He tapped to hard, broke the plastic piece and lost a spring inside the door hole. Now he can’t get the piece out. We may have to buy another set($99). We had our carpenter friend trim the doors to fit also! Nothing is easy with our house. Something always goes wrong and my husband always struggles. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I have a rent house that we’re fixing up and we’re trying to figure out why the by folding doors come out of the track, so hopefully your video will help us figure that out. Thank you for posting it.

Thank you! I installed my first set of bi folds today but only after watching this video several times. Without seeing the video first the install would have been difficult and full of mistakes. Thanks again.

Thanks from Texas❤💪🏾

With this video I confirmed that whoever installed the bi-fold doors in my new rental apartment has NEVER seen an aligner.

This person installed them, in BOTH doors, intertwined and bent, like they were some kind of internal latch that didn't do anything but make the doors clash everytime you closed them. I KNEW something was completely wrong with them. I didn't even know what the aligners were, so I took a picture, asked Google Images and it identified the pieces name. With the name I found this video and now I know what they are for and I fixed the doors myself. Thank you!

And yes, these needed AN aligner (not two smh).

Thanks!

Very helpful. Thank you

Confused (because I'm about to quickly frame a wall for closet) . If your rough opening is 48" here in this vid, and you just installed two 24" bifolds, how do you have so much wiggle room for door adjustments in this vid? Are 24" bifold doors not actual 24…?

Excellent! Very clear directions.

Thank you!!!

Thank you! You were so easy to understand; I could relate! Appreciated things to do/check before and how it should be. Video was clear and displayed well what you were doing. Ditto the other comments below. You're a good teacher!

Thanks for posting this video. It was well done. I'm replacing old doors, but one problem I had was that the doors wouldn't stay 100% closed. They stuck out just a little bit at the hinge point. I suspected the quarter-round molding at the edge might be causing binding, and that appeared to be it. As soon as I pulled it off, the doors stayed flat when closed.

This is a K I C K - A S S Video ! ! ! - Thank you very much ! ! !

How would you put baseboards around the bottom of the doors?

Our challenge is every closet is an odd width. Can louvres be hung outside the closet when everything standard is too narrow or too wide?

Thank you very much for the specifics, that always helps when you encounter problems. 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

aI grew up using tools with my grandfather and father, one a carpenter the other an engineer. So I am used to tools and the mechanics that go with them. But I could not find a simple explanatory video or instructions on which pivot pins to use to fix an old bifold door. Your video was the bomb and just what I needed. thank you so much, you rock. Your video was the best that i found. Thank you, thank you.!!!!

Awesome bro. Thank you!

That was great, thank you, Rudy! I need to make two lightwood panel doors for my RV. I'm sick of the one hollow core door that never hangs straight always blocking the stove and too bulky. The bifold will solve the problem. I want to make one door with two folding panels which fold to left side. Ideal for an RV. Not a bad concept for cabinets either.
You explained this very well!

how can I make my bifolds stop opening by themselves?? The alignment seems plumb and straight across. I can't figure it out!!

Thanks! Redoing three buildings(almost complete demo rebuilt from the floor up )as adult foster homes rebuilt all new closets the doors through me for a loop. Bifolds are the one door I have never done. Thank you

Thanks for breaking this down! If there’s already a top track from the previous doors, can we use that? Or do we have to replace it?

Love your energy and willingness to go into those more conversational teaching methods. Feels like I'm working with you. Thanks for the help!

Thank you for a great tutorial. Very helpful!

Thank you very much

I appreciate you brother..Good looking out..

Thank you this helps a lot ❤❤❤

Thanks a lot for this very informative video 😊

you were missing few important steps in the video ,e.g. - how you adjust the left door and stuff.

I'd love to see how you cut the baseboard trim after installing. I've noticed that all of the bifold bottom brackets in my house are screwed directly onto the baseboard.

My closet is a weird size. 42" W x 81 1/4" H. Do I have to buy a custom door size? Seems like Home Depot only carries 18x80 and 24x80.

What if you can’t remove the trim and you have vinyl floating floors over concrete ?

I just brought the same three door system,be nice if there was a how to install video. Ive also opening mine to inside the house so i don't have doors sticking out onto the veranda,the flush bolts on here would be on the outside the way i have them opening so i hope it doesn't matter what side they're on

Great job. Way to patiently explain every step - very helpful!

I installed another knobs but does not open . Why doesn’t it open ?

It’s is own door do still need measurements?!!!

Use a large needle nose pliers to install.