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Handyman Tip For Swinging Bypass Doors

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Many homes have sliding doors in closets, or a laundry room. These are commonly called bypass doors and it's something a handyman consistently works on. The doors will either slide along a track secured to the floor, or will hang from a header and ride in a track from above.

On the doors that hang from above, there is a divider mounted to the floor that keeps the doors separated and prevents the doors from swinging in-and-out. We see this commonly when homeowners will have the flooring changed, such a having the carpet replaced, and the installers won't re-install the divider. That leaves the doors to swing in-and-out, and the divider piece disappears.

You can buy a new divider and install it simply enough. If there is so much space between the top of the plastic divider and the bottom of the door (making it so the divider won't even touch the doors), you will have to use a spacer installed underneath the divider. Some dividers come with plastic spacers, but in some cases you may have to fabricate something that is functional and attractive. You can screw the divider into the floor to hold it in place. For carpet laid on top of the slab, you will have to screw the divider into the slab with a small anchor or tapcon screw.