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June 16, 2008

Brass guide rail for parlor pocket doors

Does anyone know where you can get new "t" shaped brass floor guide rails for brownstone pocket doors? (ca 1899)

Posted by OTIS at 10:38 PM | Comments (7)
Categories: Doors

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The part you are looking for is called a sheave track. The sheave being the wheel part that is mortised into the bottom of the door and the track the part recessed into the floor. Both parts must be compatible. Hettich makes both parts.

Posted by: southslope at June 17, 2008 11:19 AM

consider rehanging the doors with hanging track above doors - should be much smoother action

Posted by: guest at June 17, 2008 11:57 AM

If you hang the doors though (and it seems like a good idea), you'll probably have wall broken out. Not fun.

Now...we have a problem...like many houses, ours has settled over it's 150+ years so even the parlor floor's wall between front and back parlor noticeably shifts down on one side.

I would be interested to know how people have dealt with this and managed to get their pocket doors sliding on a track barring rebuilding the floor to level or jacking up the interior walls of the house...

Posted by: guest at June 17, 2008 4:58 PM

4:58-

The sheaves closest to the meeting stiles can be removed and shimmed with washers to compensate for the sagging floor condition. (It may require a lot of washers.)

Posted by: southslope at June 17, 2008 5:55 PM

Thank you 11:19.

Posted by: OTIS at June 17, 2008 6:00 PM

5:55 PM,
Thanks! I have a feeling our track will be below floor leve on the party wall side and above the floor on the other. Oh, well.
Gotta do it at some point.
FGG

Posted by: guest at June 17, 2008 8:08 PM

Blueman Hardware on Bowery & Broome. They sell all sorts of this kind of hardware for doors, closets etc. They'll also tell you how to install, etc. Even let you borrow a floor sample to take home. Be sure to bargin them down if you're spending a lot.

Posted by: sushi at June 19, 2008 11:02 PM

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