Amazing! It seems the previous homeowners must have taken off the metal
pressure plates (for lack of anything better to call them) when they
painted the doors and put them back on wrong. I flipped them around,
adjusted them, and the doors stay closed! What a simple fix! I could even
see the marks on the edges of the doors where the plates had been pushing
for years and years.

Many, many thanks, sir. You have made my evening.

C


On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:46:40 -0500, "Curmudgeon" wrote:

They should:

1. be just a coupla inches off the floor
2. One should be above the other when the doors meet...as close together as
you can get them ((vertically)WITHOUT touching just as the doors meet.
3. Each one is bent to provide some tension when the doors are fully
closed.

"C" wrote in message
news
I'll bet the answer to this is obvious, but I'll ask anyway...

I have a few sets of bifold, closet doors in my house. Both sides of one
closet are in alignment and open and close just fine, but they don't
"lock." Let me explain: There is a piece of metal on the outer edge of
each door that the two sides, when closed, are supposed to press against,
thereby holding the doors straight and closed. No matter how I adjust
these pieces of metal, the doors just won't lock and fall open slightly.
What's the trick? Should one be above the other a little bit? In perfect
alignment? How far out from the edge of the door should the metal
protrude? Is this really just a day-long, trial and error session? Help
me surprise my wife.

TIA.
C