Condo/Home Renovation Ideas Made Easy/Part 82

class is now open and i'm going to talk now about installing a bifold door and how to go about figuring out where these go and how this all works i'm not going to actually put them in right now i'm just going to show you the basics so that you understand what's going on here i've initially i took these down i took these down i took them out into the garage i painted them i painted everything in the condo and when i did that i left some of the hardware of the existing doors here and like i say i'm going to put the existing doors up but i was having issues with the the top uh little wheels and different things that were broken and stuff and uh so i wanted to explain what's going on here okay now this these are the old door feet okay this when i when i painted everything i made sure i didn't recall the uh holes because that's going to go back in see it's going to go like that and i'm going to screw it back in well i'm not going to use the old brackets i'm going to i'm going to end up using the new ones and i'm going to show you i wanted to show you the difference of why i'm going to do that okay here let's just talk about this one here you see this bottom thing there's a bolt on there and there's a nut on the back side and there's a plastic goodie here and i see there's a plastic one on the old one on this one too for the other side because it's a double door set okay fits over there well these things broke and in the old days there used to be this plastic thing that went around and then there was a slight little oblong area here where the bottom of the door this goes into the bottom of the bifold door fit into that plastic slot then if you wanted to adjust that let's say if your door if you wanted it closer to the edge or you wanted it further the other way in order to slide it you'd have to undo that nut with a very thin um little uh wrench that came with the bifold doors or or you'd have to take the doors down and do it so that you could move it and you loosen this up and then you slide the plastic sleeve back and forth and then tighten it up well that was a pain in the rear but if that's how if that's the kind you have that's how you're gonna have to do it well now in the new days you see all those little splines on the side there see there and this is the old one it fits right on there so if you if if you wanted to adjust the door you would lift up on the door slide it over and pop it down slide it over pop it down you see what i mean this one looks like the old one had little splines see but they didn't use them did they they use this nut now if if you have some old ones let's say and you have this nut and you got the little splines there maybe and if that's broken maybe you can take that off and just use this bracket with those splines and i think that would work i don't i don't know why they did that i don't know why they did that okay so there's there's the first thing and um when i uh when i decided to go to the store and get get some new brackets and stuff this is what you can get at the store see it all comes for one door here's here's bifold door and uh this is called a repair kit you see and that's enough for one bifold door now funny thing is two and see i got enough for two bifold doors so here's all my new parts you see here's my new parts it's got the wheel for the top it's got that it's got this little top thing and and the thing let me i'll talk about that in a minute okay let's just talk about the old one here okay so so on the door this was the top wheel and then it also comes with one of these little goodies and at the top on most bifold doors you're going to see a slide rail like this you're going to see this little thing here with the screw in it you're like okay what's that for well the top of the door obviously has this little goodie and you're supposed to be able to depress it like that and then and then it fits right in there see now if you need to slide the door to the right or to the left you would undo that nut that uh screw and then this top thing slides on this rail where the groove is okay so you loosen that up slide that over a little bit tighten it up you see what i mean very very easy once you know how everything works right well for a double door set um at the bottom you want the doors to line up properly and this one didn't have it but the new kit had it you got these little goodies so one of these gets screwed on the back side of one door and one gets screwed on the other side of the other door so when it fits it they locked they kind of uh lock together and make it so that you can you can fit them okay so i'm going to show you at the top of this um a little bit more let's get my my little ladder out get you up there and uh so see this this happened to be the one that i didn't take the pieces out and i can see you see how this this is kind of going up at an angle and this is this is sticky look at that won't even hardly go down that was the old ones and and you see this is supposed to spring back and forth and it's coming up at an angle and stuff and uh it's just because it's like 15 years old so this fits in that little groove right and then that's your wheel i mean at the bottom you got you got the same thing uh you got a little plastic anchor for this bottom threaded screw and uh since i'm talking about it and since you're interested in it let's go ahead and lower this door down so you can see that joe the question might be joe how come why don't you just use the old hardware well because because those were sticking and i thought i might as well get i might as well go ahead and get the other good enough for both doors right make make it look all brand new and so at the bottom you got you got a hole in both sides well that's because if it's on the left side you're going to put your plastic anchor there the right side is over here and that anchor comes with your kit and see it's got it's got female threads in there and you take that and you screw that in there so see in all uh likelihood could i could i reuse that bottom one yeah i could if i wanted and then if you want to adjust the doors let's say you got your doors up there and you want it adjusted up higher or lower um you would you would lift this up from the bottom because the top has that spring-loaded little catch and then you would just screw this in a little bit that much or you want it a little bit higher screw it out and what i should have done dabbity nabbit i should have left one of these in there or i should have remembered where it was but see i took it out initially and i put screws that's what i did this was out but i i think i can i i think i might be able to tell how far it was in there i had i took this out and when i got ready to paint i put some screws in here and let it stick up off of the floor so i get my roller down there without it hitting the ground that's what i ended up doing and but i can see i think it was screwed in that far do you see what i mean if i look at both both of them let's see you see that's that's probably where that one was screwed into chances are it was screwed into there not there do you see what i mean so that'll kind of give me an idea when i get ready to screw the new ones in okay and here here's the uh here's the important thing uh to realize okay at the store or at your your hardware you're gonna have something like this at the top right well not all of them have your anchor this small okay i've seen some that are way bigger than this and if you don't know that you go to the store oh yeah i know what to get like i get those parts i second video joe's uh video on it and stuff and i'll just get one of these kits and you come back and son of a gun this one is way too small or or your your hole in your door is way too small for the other one for this one okay or or for the other one you get follow me here these holes are this big so it's only going to take this size one other bifold doors that hole is bigger and it takes a different size the bigger one of this so if you get the bigger one at the store and you come back obviously it's not going to fit in that hole is it or vice versa you got a big hole there and you you get a small one like this at the store and it's not going to fit you're going to be like oh brother what i do now you don't want to glue it in because then your mastic gets will get could get on the inside of that you don't really want to drill this hole bigger to allow for the bigger one just get the right size but uh but i know for a fact that they have two sizes okay that's the main thing i wanted you to to know and then see it comes with this little goodie here and the only reason why you would use that now see see up here they have they have a double goodie see how wide that is and and it and it's probably designed to fit for that double door maybe i don't need to use this one little small one at all but it's got some little uh clips in it and then it fits in that little clip groove there you fit it in there on one side and then you push it up and snap it in there and so i don't think i'm going to need this if i use this longer one does that make sense we'll just have to see okay and so at the store and here's here's my old knobs now they're nicely painted and when you get the new knobs obviously they're not painted at all are they now if you have a stain grade uh bifold door you can stain this to match or you can use your old handles i don't really want to paint these new handles so could i put those in yeah i could put those in on the door but i'm going to show you something else i'm going to do which is pretty cool and uh i should have brought them up here but i didn't they're down here and uh i'm getting ready i'm going to be putting this in here i've been getting this condo ready to sell and i've got all kinds of videos on everything i've done inside this condo go to my youtube playlist on my main channel page and click on playlist scroll down to condo rehab or condo reno or something okay so here's the knobs i'll show you the i'll show you the white one here's the one that was before okay and i could reuse those now here's the other one okay that came with the with the kit i'm not going to use that am i well i decided at the store i'm going to i'm going to use this look at that isn't that cool i'm going to put those on instead of this that's my that's my thought anyways and the silly thing is sometimes when you get these at at the store okay they come in a little package obviously you can buy you can get all kinds of ones like this but generally they give you two size two length length of of screws well this one only gave me one and this is as long as the screw is can you believe that and uh obviously it's not going to fit it's not going to fit here because because the door is inch and three eights wide and this this screw is only an inch and a quarter long so i i uh luckily i have some some longer screws that will work but like i say sometimes the in the plastic bags they give you a short screw and they give you a long screw and i don't think so i thought maybe i could just use the screws from the old one but i can't because those are wood threads this is wood threads and this is machine threads because it's going into metal instead of a wood handle i can't use those screws so you know just you just have to think about stuff like that so when i get all done all said done isn't that going to look pretty and the reason why i did that was because when i got this condo all ready uh to paint stuff we painted everything i took the doors out into the garage i took the door handles off the hinges off the strike plate off painted everything and then we put on new hinges the nickel finish instead of we had bright brass that bright brass bright brass and bright brass we even changed door stops to nickel okay change that to nickel change this to nickel change that to nickel change the light fixtures uh to nickel to nickel finish and their leds see that the nickel finish kind of look here's another one we did with the with the nickel finish look and everything in here is pretty much has nickel finish or stainless steel see here's the nickel finish here nickel finish nickel finish nickel finish uh stainless not stainless steel but just uh shiny shiny uh finish there and this is is a nickel finish you see the you see the tone we're going for everything we got nickel finish so so i thought and and because these are leds and it's that that uh nice color let's get these down and i can't really see it as much but it just kind of has a shiny shininess to it and i thought oh wouldn't that be cool okay so i'm going to do that too okay so so that's kind of the the quick and dirty on how your bifold door system works see here's here's the old one on this side and um i am i don't know i don't know if you can get these separate at the store i know they don't come in the kit okay and this top rail should be fine if your top rail is smashed and bent over hopefully you can bend it back into shape you may have to take the screws out and and there'll be surface mounted screws in here that you can take those out see there's one missing there and there's one missing there they just they just never put them in initially so i'm not going to worry about it you know there's plenty in here to hold and uh that if you have to bend it back into shape you can take it down then you can take a pair of pliers refashion it and see if you can't reuse that if you can't reuse that then you're probably going to have to buy uh the whole hardware kit and i don't know if you can do that at the store or not maybe maybe so because usually that comes with your bifold door set and lots of times this will be mashed over uh right in here uh where somebody's been messing around with that or this this may not tighten up because it's because you got to re-bend this back into place and to bend that back you got to slide this over and then uh re-bend everything like i say you'll probably best to take it down and get it refinished but this this fits up in those grooves too you can take these out i've i've done it before it's kind of tricky undo that screw and then monkey around with it and stuff but see i've not touched these so so this is pretty much set the bottom ones obviously are not going to be set because these were these had been broken from years ago and so that's why i'm going to use my new ones with the with the screws and see with that here i installed this new carpet do i really have to put a screw a long screw in this one through the carpet i don't really have to i could push this down like that and put those two screws in and leave this other screw out if i want but more than likely i'll probably put it in when i put it in you have to remember most carpet has an action back on it you don't want to just put your screw in there and and run it down because you could zip a line out now here i don't really have to worry about that because this is this is a different type of carpet it's got a different carpet pad on it it's got kind of a felt a felt padding isn't that kind of cool and that's designed so you don't get strands being pulled out and zipping all the way across your room so i'm not i'm not really going to be too concerned about it but i'm going to take a scratch all after i screw this in you know the two there i'm going to take a scratch all here pound it in there take this out put the scratch on it run it back and forth you know to to make the hole a little bit bigger through the carpet and then i'm just going to be careful when i when i put that screw in and and this has wood subfloor on it so there's no concrete down there if you have a concrete floor then maybe uh when you took this one out maybe you can still find the hole down through your carpet and and that kind of thing okay all right so that's that's pretty much it for that i'm going to make a separate video on uh my progress on installing these doors i don't know i just kind of i've had lots of different things to do throughout this condo getting it ready to be sold and and i've let this go and let this go and let this go uh for some reason it's just like i don't want to mess with that just yet i've i've been kind of procrastinating about it a little bit but i'm sure it's going to go okay and here's the other thing i've got a i've got to deal with there used to be a regular washer and dryer side by side we ended up taking those out put a stacking washer and dryer in there that see it gives us all this extra room and that kind of cool you can put uh your uh you can put some uh hangers up here some shelving or or something else that a bar across there to hang up stuff or you can put one of those accordion type of things where you put your uh your different clothes to dry the stuff that you don't want to have in the dryer and because it's in a condo we only had so much room so i decided to do that i don't think these are any thicker deeper than the other but but you see i barely have enough room to slide through there without it hitting without it hitting the door but i i'm sure i can get it to fit and because we did it that way here you've got this um the aluminum ducting that goes through here that hooks up over here and and see i've got it i got enough clearance there to be able to push this further back up against the wall worst case scenario i could indentate the uh the aluminum right here to get it pushed up against this you know so i i need another i need another inch or so through there and then i should be fine okay so if you want to if you want to watch that that'll be on a different video look for it on my channel well that's all i got for this time but i'll be back with more videos and i hope you're enjoying these videos on the condo reno on getting your condo ready to be sold or getting it ready so that you can move in go to my main youtube channel page click on playlists scroll down to condo rehab you'll see all kinds of stuff that i've done throughout this condo and i'm not done yet i've still got a couple more things to do and of course i'll be posting them on my channel so that you can see that hey if video joe can do it and average joe you can do it too