pocket doors
I just discovered great old pocket doors in my house. Unfortunately the track is missing. I’m not sure if they are top or bottom hung. Does anyone know of someone to make a new track? Or some homemade solution – wheels maybe?
I just discovered great old pocket doors in my house. Unfortunately the track is missing. I’m not sure if they are top or bottom hung. Does anyone know of someone to make a new track? Or some homemade solution – wheels maybe?
RE: ISO Exterminator. The person looking for an exterminator says “glue traps are not enough.”
Have you given any consideration to the fact that glue traps are one of the cruelest devices ever invented by mankind? At least with a guillotine, when it’s done, it’s done. A mouse, a sentient being with fairly high intelligence and no evil in its makeup, suffers horribly and hideously for a long, drawn out slow death of unspeakable terror and pain. How could any human being with a soul use something so completely evil? There are many other ways to get rid of mice, and the best is to seal up every possible opening. Once they cannot get in, you won’t see them anymore. NEVER use a glue trap. It is the single cruelest thing you could ever do.
As mentioned in the previous post, your doors probably run on metal floor tracks. If your tracks aren’t under the sill, they might be bent back into the sides of the pocket doorway. All of our tracks were bent back into the recessed area where the doors slide into. Since the tracks were too bent to repair, we had them remade at Herr Metalworks in Queens (Long Island City).
Try the Rat Zapper 2000. I live in a row of brownstones and I heard that everyone has mice. I feared that during our first winter there, we would be fighting them off. I bought the Rat Zapper for myself and one of my neighbors. I have not caught one mouse (I think they smell our two cats and I think it helped to keep all food in tupperware), but my neighbor has caught a bunch. It is more humane than poison and glue traps, because it is quick (and it’s not messy). It runs on a battery.
The old pocket doors have the track on the bottom. At least they are in my house. Is there a sill along the floor? Your track may be underneath. It is usually just a metal strip with a ridge in the middle. The new pocket doors have the track on top and actually hang.