Bedroom Door 2018 03 16

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I have been doing YouTube videos as late and am out of practice on doing this style of project reporting.

Back in August we were having problems with the bathroom/bedroom door sticking in the closed position.

In order to repair the problem I had to remove the panel that covered the wall that had the pocket door is it. Here is what happened.

As an aside I discovered how to access the shower plumbing hardware. This is what actually spurred me on to do this update. I got a PM request asking if I knew how to get to the shower plumbing.

Here the panel has been removed and the framing behind the panel has been exposed as well as the sliding door. One of the problems found was that the screws holding the track that the door rides back and forth on had started to back out. I replaced them with longer larger screws

In order to remove the wall panel, the crown molding on the wall had to be removed so that the wall panel could be swung out from the wall framing

The framing behind the wall panel was held together with staples. There were gapes between the frame members. I pulled the stales, filled the gapes with pieces of wood, then glued and screwed the frame members back together. Note how the frame member sticks into the cavity that the sliding door wants to move back and forth in

The discovery in this project is this is how you get access to the plumbing for the shower. Removing the wall panel is not particularly hard; it is time consuming, but does provide good access. I hope that I do not have to remove this panel again, because rather than use the small nails that the manufacturer used, I used small black headed screws to put it back. The black screw heads are almost invisible, but would be tedious to have to remove again.

The door problem was fixed by aligning the wall framing members and fixing the screws that had worked themselves loose in the pocket door roller track. The heads of these screws were stopping the door trolleys from moving in the track. A side benefit was finding out how to access the shower plumbing.