Bifold doors that pop off the track, sliding closet doors that scrape and stick, or folding panels that hang crooked and won't close flush? We re-pivot, re-roller and realign bifold and bypass closet doors across Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley — usually in a single same-day visit.
Closet doors get used more than almost any door in the house, and they're built light, so they're often the first to fail — a bifold that jumps off its track every time you open it, a mirrored bypass door that scrapes its partner, panels that hang crooked with a wedge-shaped gap at the top. None of it is a crisis, but all of it is a daily irritation that makes a bedroom or hallway feel unfinished. At Fix My Door Now Ottawa, bifold and closet door repair is a quick, satisfying job we handle constantly in homes and condos across the region.
The whole job lives in a handful of small, inexpensive parts: the pivots and pins a bifold folds on, the rollers a bypass door hangs from, the top track they both ride, and the floor guide that keeps everything lined up. When one wears out, the door drops, drags, or derails. We replace the worn part, reset the alignment, and the door folds or glides like it's new again — for a fraction of what replacement would cost.
A bifold door pivots in a bracket at the bottom and rides a spring-loaded pin in the top track. When it keeps jumping out, that top pin has lost its spring, the bottom pivot has worn, or the track has shifted in the opening. We replace the pivots and the top pin assembly, reset or realign the track, and set the door height so it folds neatly into the corner and parks without leaping off its hardware every time you touch it.
When the bottom pivot wears down, the door drops and the leading corner starts dragging across the carpet or floor, and the hinges between the panels can stiffen so the door won't fold cleanly. We fit a new bottom pivot bracket and pin to bring the door back up to height, free up or replace the panel hinges, and align the leaves so they fold smoothly and sit flat against the jamb when open.
Bypass doors — the two- or three-panel sliders that pass behind each other on a closet — hang from rollers on a top track and are kept from swinging by a floor guide. When they scrape each other, stick, or come off, it's worn rollers, a bent top track, or a missing or broken guide. We replace the rollers, straighten or replace the track, and reset the floor guide so the panels glide past one another smoothly and stay in their own lane. These doors are close cousins of our sliding door repair and pocket door repair work.
That annoying wedge-shaped gap at the top of a closet door — wide on one side, tight on the other — is a levelling problem, and bifold and bypass hardware is built to adjust for exactly that. We level the doors at the pivots and rollers, square them in the opening, and set the side aligners so the panels hang plumb, meet flush in the middle, and close evenly without rubbing. When closet doors are beyond a tune-up, we also supply and install new ones — see our 7ft closet door installation and 8ft closet door installation projects in Ottawa.
Closet door off its track, dragging, or hanging crooked? It's usually a fast, inexpensive fix — and forcing a derailed door only bends the track further. Call 613-265-3667 for flat-rate bifold & closet door repair across Ottawa & the Valley, or request a free quote online.
The small hardware that makes a closet door close and stay closed wears out too — knobs and finger pulls loosen, magnetic and roller catches stop holding, and the snug-aligners that keep panels flush snap off. We replace all of it so your doors latch shut, sit flush, and don't drift open on their own in the middle of the night.
Mirrored bypass doors are popular in Ottawa bedrooms and condos — and because they're heavy, their rollers and tracks wear out faster than plain doors. We rehang and re-roller mirrored doors carefully so the glass is never stressed. If a mirror or glass panel is already cracked, we can replace just the panel through our broken glass repair service rather than scrapping the whole door.
Closet doors share hardware with other sliding and interior doors. If yours is a little different, these pages will help:
A folding closet door that kept dropping off its pivots — pivots and track reset and the door realigned to hang plumb at an Ottawa home.
The bottom pivot had worn and the door dragged and gapped at the top. We fitted new pivots, reset the track, and levelled the doors so they fold and close flush.
These bifold panels were dropping and rubbing at the centre. New pivots and pins, a trued top track, and a height reset has them meeting flush with even reveals.
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Cavity-sliding pocket doors that jump the track or stick inside the wall — rollers, track, guides and latches reset and replaced.
Pocket Door Repair →Sliding glass doors that stick or jump the track — roller replacement, track repair, alignment and lock fixes with same-day service.
Sliding Door Repair →Sagging doors, worn pivots, broken catches and handles sourced and replaced same day with hardware built to last.
Hinges & Hardware →Tell us what's wrong and we'll get you a fast, honest price for the fix.
What Ottawa homeowners ask us most about repairing folding and sliding closet doors.
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