I recently bought an older house with 4 closets that have the bi-folding hollow closet doors like those from Jeld-Wen. Upon inspection 2 sets of doors had to be thrown away as the mounting hardware holes were broken.
A few weeks later, I discovered that two of the closets were not 80 inches tall, which would require the doors to be trimmed in order to be installed correctly. I lost track of which doors went to which closet. However, it seems like a pretty good guess that the thrown away doors were the ones that were trimmed making the places where the mounting hardware mounts smaller and more subject to breaking.
What is a way to mitigate this? I don't really want to modify the house so much to raise the closet door jamb, and I would prefer not having to install new ones each year. Any ideas?
More details:
One closet is 79.25" the other 79". This will require at least a .5" and a .75" trim. It could be a .75" and 1" trim.
Best Answer
You could order doors that are built to fit your openings. They may be more expensive up front, but should be just as strong and durable as standard height doors and not require regular replacing.
You could also reinforce the mounting area by cutting it a bit shorter and installing a bit of metal plate to help take the stress.