Since Peanut can’t make public appearances due to the risk of catching a bug, she and I hung out on Sunday while the DW and the rest of the kiddos went to Sissy’s dance recital. I hadn’t had a chance to get back to the stuck pocket door and was eyeing up the project when Peanut said she’d supervise if I wanted to see what type of mess we could make while the DW was out of the house.

Peanut supervising – she’s my toughest critic

When we tore the carpet out a couple weeks back, it allowed for one of the two pocket doors to come rolling out smoothly. The other was stuck. It’d slide out about 6 inches if you pulled hard. I was afraid it may have been off the rear roller, but wasn’t completely convinced. I wanted a closer look and the best way to do that was to pull off the trim that that blocked the view of the door while it was in the “pocket.” I pulled off one piece of trim and noticed the door shift as the trim came loose. I grabbed a flash light and took a peak. Nothing out of place inside the wall – the rollers and track looked fine. I gave another tug on the door. This time it came rolling out as easy as its mate.

Both doors fully functional… but still needing to be cleaned.

It must have been a combination of the house shifting and the trim twisting that pushed on the door just enough to cause it to bind in place. All I needed to do was reattached the trim with a little more room for the door. A simple fix – and besides the years of dust on the doors, no mess. And it’s a good thing – Peanut left me to clean things up while she took a nap.

The doors from the dining room view – still dusty.

You can tell from the pictures of each side of the doors that the finish color is slightly different from one side of the house to the other. Somewhere down the road, we’re going to have to decide what to do about that.