Follow these steps for a quick and easy installation project.
Attaching sliding door track to tile floor.
Step 1 choose guide materials.
If your tile is on a concrete slab you ll need a hole big enough and deep enough for a plastic anchor to hold the screw in place.
The guide on top of wood that is then placed on ceramic tile.
We recently had a contractor replace the kitchen floor tile with travertine tiles.
Insert the bottom pin into the hole of the slide.
Hold the door in the opening at a slight angle and push the top pivot pin on the door s outer edge into the bracket inside the overhead track.
Otherwise just drill through the tile and not into the subfloor using a bit large enough so the screw will drop through the tile without binding the threads.
Normally in a bedroom that s easy just screw the closet door guide into the wood sub floor however the kitchen floor base is concrete not wood.
My issue is that the sliding door needs a track on the bottom.
I have a sliding door guide that needs to be raised to the height of the bottom of the sliding door by a piece of wood.
When installing a new sliding closet door or repairing a damaged one you may have to add or change the door guides that keep the door in place.
There are several different materials that are used to manufacture sliding door guides.
Think shower door or closet door similar to that.
I could screw the wood in the floor but it is ceramic tile on top of cement foundation and i am afraid that the ceramic tile will crack from drilling.
Surface mounted track is available for direct installation over existing laminate floors.
The pantry in our kitchen has sliding closet doors just like you normally see in bedrooms.
Position the door bracket at the intersection of the floor and the door jamb.
The owner a friend just had the floors redone so i d rather not screw the track directly into the floor if i can avoid it.
Mark the tile or paver at the location of the machined hole in the base leg of the bracket with a felt tip marker.
Position one pair of bifold doors at the opening with the stabilizer pins at the jamb side.
Press down on the guide roller to line it up with the overhead track.
Lift up on the door and sit the bottom pivot pin into the proper hole or slot inside the l bracket.