Caradco French Door Adjustment

Luckily leveling your doors is as easy as tightening or loosening your hinges until the doors are back in place.

Caradco french door adjustment.

The horizontal adjust is found on the face of the door leaf. Caradco windows doors produces the following products. Wood and aluminum clad wood windows and patio doors with a comprehensive choice of styles and glazing options. Install lock body and middle extension into mortise in door.

Caradco windows doors are manufactured in rantoul il. Genuine caradco replacement parts. If you ve made your adjustments to the hinges and you still feel a draft coming inside you may need to add new weatherstripping on the inactive door to seal it. How to adjust french doors.

On a 93 caradco door using kit 4990237 as a replacement the top shootbolt should be approximately 1 3 4 too tall but double check. Trim top shootbolt the same way you trimmed bottom shootbolt. If the opening where your french doors are located is perfectly. French doors are elegant and allow natural light to fill your room but they can be difficult to adjust.

The best way to adjust the hinges are to set the middle hinge vertical adjustment first to align the door reveal then snug up the other two hinges vertical adjustment screws so all three hinges are taking some portion of the door weight. The goal is to make the lock fits the door.