| Do you ever wonder, after sliding a door, where | | | | track or mounting it on a bottom track. With |
| it disappears into? In some cases, the answer is | | | | panels suspended from a pair of hangers in an |
| easy. It slips behind or over the anchored other | | | | overhead trolley, a top hung gear system has |
| door. Other cases are more mysterious; the door | | | | lightweight doors that glide easily. It is because the |
| glides into an unseen recess in an adjoining wall, | | | | hangers assume the weight of the door. With |
| hence, the name pocket door. Sliding closet doors, | | | | panels propped on a pair of roller wheels along a |
| laundry or utility room and shower doors are | | | | floor track, a bottom rolling gear system has |
| familiar examples of pocket doors. Their purpose | | | | heavier doors since their weight has wider |
| is to save space by providing more floor | | | | distribution downwards. At each end of the track |
| expanses in comparison to traditional doorways | | | | is a stopper for keeping panels open or close and |
| where the panel is swung forward or back. | | | | also for subsuming the impact caused by the |
| Sliding closet doors are space-economizing not | | | | sliding action. |
| unlike shoji screens in Japanese homes, with one | | | | While sliding closet doors are used mainly for |
| white paper panel slipping next to another within a | | | | space efficiency, many contemporary homes and |
| latticed screen frame. The mechanism for how to | | | | hotels use other sliding entry systems for their |
| install a sliding door panel is that it should run | | | | sheer attractiveness. A good example is sliding |
| through rollers fixed into place by a track secured | | | | glass doors, also called Arcadia doors, used mostly |
| inconspicuously by the door frame. The track and | | | | for dramatic effect, like in movies. Others are |
| roller are usually made of steel, although PVC | | | | porch, sitting room, lanai, spa bathroom and patio |
| tracks are more common while wood and | | | | doors. Although they are now associated with |
| aluminum tracks are also being used. | | | | modern interiors, this type of openings was |
| Installing a sliding panel such as for a wardrobe | | | | actually in vogue as early as in Victorian era |
| entry may be done by hanging one from a top | | | | homes. |