Sliding wardrobe is a modern kind of furniture. It is used both in large and small rooms, as it does not take up much space. If you need to disassemble the cabinet to move it to another place, then the biggest difficulty will be the removal of the doors, since they have an unusual design. This article will address the issue of how to remove sliding doors from a wardrobe.
Advantages
Doors have a complex structure just in order to create maximum comfort for the owner in the house. There are several advantages of using such an element of the interior:
- Compactness. Due to the fact that the doors do not swing open outward, you can open them and not occupy the space of the room. This advantage is especially true for small rooms.
- Large capacity. In such a cabinet you can install both shelves and hangers, on which many things will fit.
- Universality. This piece of furniture will fit into almost any room interior. Due to the fact that there are many shapes and colors of cabinets, you can choose the one that will be in harmony with other furniture.
- Mirror doors. In addition to showing off all day, the mirror also creates additional visual space in the room.
The mechanism of operation of cabinet doors
To understand how to remove the doors from the wardrobe, you must first familiarize yourself with the principle of their work. In the upper area there is a guide part. A frame is fixed in it, along which the wheels move together with the door itself. The lower region is arranged in a similar way.
The cabinet doors move in such a way that when you open one part, the other closes and vice versa. It should be noted that movement is provided only in one plane - horizontal. Therefore, when removing, you need to be very prudent and accurate so as not to damage the elements.
Reasons for Removing Doors
The reasons may be different:
- Damage to the door mechanism, due to which the door may spontaneously open or move freely.
- Replacing the picture with a new one, suitable for wallpaper. It often happens that the owner acquires a cupboard and only during installation discovers that the design of the doors does not combine with the interior of the room. You need to pay attention to this when buying, or look at the photo of the doors of the wardrobe with inserts or drawings.
- Broken glass. As already mentioned, the doors of the wardrobe are made of mirrors, so you need to be extremely careful with them.
- Move cabinet. The most common reason is changing the location of the furniture. And this requires its complete disassembly of the component parts.
Withdrawal process
To understand how to remove the doors from the sliding wardrobe, you first need to inspect the structure from above and below, to roughly understand what and where is located, as well as what you have to unscrew.
Removing one door is quite simple: from the bottom you need to grab the wheel and smoothly raise it. They are so arranged that if you need to remove the door, they are easily lifted. Then, keeping the first wheel raised, you need to do a similar procedure with the second. The door must be pulled towards the bottom to pull the wheels away from the frame. Then you just need to disconnect the door from the top mount.
It is recommended that this work be done with an assistant, since it is not very convenient to hold the lower part with both hands and remove the door completely. In addition, there is a risk of damage to the product or personal injury. Also, in no case do you need to apply force during the disassembly process, since the doors are quite fragile and can easily be damaged.
There is also a wardrobe with sloping doors. The same principle applies here: you need to raise the lower part, and then remove the upper.
Removing the hinged door
How to remove doors from a sliding wardrobe without wheels? This design differs from the usual one only in that instead of wheels, rails for movement are used here. This mechanism is somewhat inconvenient to use, since the doors are unstable and often stagger.
The withdrawal process is similar. First you need to unscrew the bolts on the door itself, which fix the structure to the rails. Then you need to lift the door, take it to yourself and disconnect it from the top by pulling it down. It is also recommended that you have a partner to make the process easier.
Useful tips and nuances
It is worth considering:
- If the doors have a mechanism designed to smoothly close them, it is advisable to remove it to facilitate the removal procedure.
- Locks that ensure a tight fit of the door to the wall when closing should also be removed.
- To insert the door back, you must first correlate the upper wheels with the upper frame, and then, pressing them down, insert the lower ones. Only in this sequence can the assembly be carried out correctly.
- Some types of cabinets may have a wheel lock that does not allow them to be disconnected from the frame. In this case, you should find the flag that is responsible for the lock and rotate it 90 degrees to remove the wheel.
- How to remove the doors from the wardrobe, if there is a frame consisting of frames? In this case, the side flaps limit the door. They need only to be unscrewed from the wall and removed. Now the door rolls out through the side and is completely removed from the cabinet.
- If you need to completely disassemble the cabinet and move it to another place, you first need to remove the doors, then unscrew those elements that may interfere with disassembly (closers, locks, sashes, and so on). Now you need to disassemble the frame itself. When assembling, the steps should be performed in the reverse order: to assemble the base, put in additional elements and insert the doors. Only after all these procedures can shelves and other elements not related to the main structure of the cabinet be placed.
Thus, removing the doors does not take much time, and also does not require professional assistance.