I recently had a problem with a particularly irritating bi-fold door. This door has given me trouble since the beginning. To start out I had to make the door 35″ wide to fit the opening, then I had to cut about 2″ off the bottom (this is a job for another post:). About 6 months into its life its’ back pivot hinge tore out of the track, and the door would not stay square in the opening. The first thing I did was take the track down and bend the track back into shape so that the pivot hinge would lock properly. This fix lasted about one month…grrrrrr. I then had the idea to remove the factory screw in the pivot hinge and replace it with a screw that would pass through the hinge and into the track itself. First I removed the factory screw, then shut the door so that I could tell where I wanted the pivot to be (this took a little bumping, until I arrived at where I wanted to be). I marked the new location of the pivot hinge with a pencil, then re-opened the door. I put the hinge within the pencil marks. Then I found a 1 inch self-tapping screw and drilled it through the pivot hinge and into the track (I used a cordless drill). This held the door tight in place in the track.**It has been several months since this fix and I have not had to re-visit this repair.

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