Mirrored and glazed sliding wardrobe doors are in almost every flat of this generation, and they are used several times a day for years by everybody in the household. They are also the item nobody thinks of as needing repair, so they are usually well past the point where a small job would have fixed them.
Why a wardrobe door starts jumping its track
A sliding wardrobe door hangs from or runs on small wheels, and those wheels carry a heavy mirrored panel for years.
Once they wear, the door drops slightly, and a dropped door catches at the bottom or jumps out of its guide.
People then lift it back in, which wears the wheel further. New wheels and a cleaned track restore it completely, and it is an inexpensive job. Left long enough the panel edge gets chipped where it catches, and on a mirrored door a chipped edge eventually becomes a crack.
Mirrors on a door that moves
A mirror fixed to a moving door takes flexing that a wall mirror never does, and an ordinary mirror on a sliding door will eventually crack from that alone.
A mirror made for this use has a backing film that holds it together if it does.
So when we replace a wardrobe mirror we use safety-backed glass as standard, particularly in a bedroom. It costs a little more and it is the difference between a crack that stays in the frame and a mirror shedding onto a bedroom floor.
Bottom tracks that collect everything
A bottom-running wardrobe track sits at floor level in a bedroom and fills with dust, hair and grit continuously.
That grit is what wears the wheels, so cleaning the track is the single maintenance that extends their life.
It takes a minute with a vacuum crevice tool and it is worth doing when the room is cleaned. Where a wardrobe is being repaired anyway, a top-hung arrangement avoids the problem entirely if the frame will carry it, and we will say whether yours can.
How the job works
- Tell us about the jobSend a few photos, rough sizes and what you need. Use WhatsApp or the form. For a repair, a short video of the door moving helps a lot.
- We call you back in about 2 minutesWe confirm what you need and a time to visit. Where we can, we give you a rough price on the call.
- We come and measureWe measure the opening and check the walls, floor and ceiling around it. Anything made to size is made to these measurements, so they must be right.
- You get a written priceIt lists each item, with GST as its own line. If anything about the job changes, we tell you before we go ahead.
- We fit itYou approve the price and pay the advance. Our own team fits the work, checks that every door and window opens and closes properly, and clears up. Most jobs are done in 3 to 4 days.
