Bifold doors that will not close.
Hi all,
I just moved into a new house a few weeks ago (renting), and one bifold door is driving me nuts. There's like 6 bifold doors in this house and every other one is set uo correctly, except arguably the most useful and visible one.
The door is fixed on the right side. There's a metal bracket at the top, and a metal bracket at the bottom. It swings closed to the left, and there is a track-guiding piece with two springs atop the left side.
The door gets about 1, maybe even 1/2 an inch away from being closed flush, and stops. It's stuck on the wall.
I spent a good 45 minutes trying to figure out the issue myself before calling my landlord. He sent someone out to look at it, he fiddled with it for all of 5 minutes, shrugged and left. LL says unless I can fix it, it's good enough... it's not, very much not good enough. The closet the door is for is the perfect size to store my recycling and garbage bins, arguably the only place I can put them that makes sense (nobody wants to trudge up and down a flight of stairs every time they need to throw a wrapper away), and I am pulling my hair out trying to keep my dog out of the bins as is, I want them behind a functional door 😭
I've tried googling, I've tried asking AI, I've tried watching videos, I've tried asking the few handy people I know. Nobody can tell me how to make the door close. Presumably it closed just fine when it was installed, however many years ago. Like I mentioned - I'm pretty sure it's getting caught on the wall.
The only thing I can think of is the fixed pin needs to be shifted a little (towards the closer wall or towards the opposite wall, i don't know), but this is not possible. It is screwed through the track into the ceiling/frame/whatever (not wood, its made out of whatever the walls are made out of), and i even tried taking the track off to slide it either way but then the hole is covered. Which I realize means I could just drill a new hole, but I'd rather avoid that unless it 100% is the only fix.
There's no pin, absolutely 0 visible way to adjust this hardware. Yet ALL the other doors seem to close just fine!
Please help me. I'm going crazy over a dang door.