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Bifold closet doors have taken the place of the bypass door installed for closets in most new houses built since the 1950s.
They are, as the name implies, door units that fold. The sections of a bifold closet door are most commonly made of wood and can be solid or hollow-core, although solid sections are usually preferred because of the added stability. Bifold door sections may also be made of glass or metal.
Bifold closet doors are an improvement over bypass closet doors. Bypass closet doors, where the doors hang in parallel with each other from an overhead track and slide past each other, have an inherent design flaw: you cannot easily get at items in the middle of the closet, because of the overlap of the two door sections.
The difference with bifold closet doors is that both sections, though hanging from overhead tracks like the sections of a bypass door, fold away from the middle of the closet opening and allow full access to the entire closet. The individual sections of bifold doors are hinged together, two folding one way and two folding the other. Rather than the several gliders used to suspend each section of a bypass door, special stops, pivots, arms and gliders are used to hold the sections of a bifold door so that the gliding action proceeds easily and unimpeded.
Perhaps the best way to describe bifold closet doors will be to go through the steps of a typical installation. In that way, you'll understand the mechanics of how the door works better than you would from any dry description. Installing a set of bifold closet doors is not an enormous task -- it can be done in one afternoon. Most of the heavy work will be the removal of the old doors and the old track. Be sure to label all the sections of the doors so that you'll know which edges of one are attached to which edges of another, and also which faces of the sections will be outward facing. You'll also need some trim stock long enough for the header and the vertical edges of the closet opening.
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