Doors – do about pocket doors that are blocked by floor tiles

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I have double pocket doors in my den that I never close. I was going to clean them today, and when I tried to close them they would not close because of the tile being to high. I had the tile put in about 3 yrs ago, and never even noticed that the tile is to high. I thought it was because of the grout keeping them from closing, but it's the tile. I was able to get one of them to come out a little, but the other will not budge. Do you have a solution for this without having to take the tile out.

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Best Answer

That looks tight.

First effort would be to get the adjusters into reach and see if the door can be raised sufficiently. From the looks of things, that isn't going to be enough.

You could futz around and replace the roller mechanism with a more compact one to gain a little height, but I have found it difficult to obtain compatible parts and very difficult to find anyone who would know where to obtain them.

The surefire solution is to open the walls, take out the doors, cut them to be shorter, reinstall, and then restore the walls. Easily said, but potentially a lot of work. However, it is probably easier to get the walls to be restored and looking good than whatever you might do to the flooring.