General Tune-Ups

N.W. Portland near the intersection of Kaiser & Springville Roads.

If you enlarge the photo by clicking on it, you may be able to see the pocket door sitting askew out of the pocket near the bottom of the opening.

I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that we’ve done hundreds of these track upgrades over the past nearly three decades.

However, most of the tracks we are replacing are not the “BOX” type track such as this one was. Nonetheless, it was the roller chassis assembly that caused the door to dismount on this particular opening.

Technician Mike Stavish begins carefully removing the trim and other surrounding wood components that must be removed to remove the door from the pocket opening.

The door is removed.

Brandon Todd goes about the task of removing the original track assembly. Notice the shims carefully used to widen the mouth of the pocket…

…to facilitate getting his arm into the pocket to remove the screws that hold the track in place.

The new track and roller assemblies are installed.

And the original wood trim and other finish components are reinstalled.