Hi all!
I've learned so much from the insight of you all over the years, and I'd be grateful for the community's thoughts on a small situation we're currently experiencing.
In short, our property has two almost-identical white wooden sliding doors separating each of the bedrooms from their respective en suites. As the below image makes clear, these doors appear to be scraping the door frame (or something in the space recessed within the wall) in a number of places leading to lifted paint and gouges in the body of the door.
It is almost as if the door itself is too thick or fat to fit in the space made for it.
We've been in this property for over five years now, and - as far as we can recall - the issue has existed since we bought the place.
Neither of the doors are particularly smooth to open or close, but we had previously just attributed that to the wheels/tracks and whacked some WD40 on them (to limited avail). They can also be unpredictable and inconsistent in the force that they require to move them - sometimes light touch, and sometimes requiring much more. All of that said, I do not believe that the damage to the doors has worsened in the time that we've been here and I haven't seen any shaved wood or paint chips on the floor, for example.
Any suggestions? Is this a case of sanding/shaving down the door so it is skinnier/narrower? If so, is that something we can readily do ourselves (and how)? If not, what type of tradesperson are we after and what should we be asking them to do?
Thanks very much in advance,
Aaron
