The Bi-Fold Door Debacle

One of the nice things about this apartment where we live is that there is a washer and dryer in the apartment.  No laundromat needed.  So good. I got tired of that the first year we were first married.  Once we had our first baby we found a used washer so at least that part of the laundry process could be done easier.  There were a LOT of cloth diapers to wash and hang out to dry.  I loved how funny and stiff those diapers looked on the clothes line in winter.  After a while when I went back out to check the diapers, the water had sublimed away and they were soft and ready to come in.  So glad not to be doing that anymore.  So glad on multiple fronts!!

Anyway, the washer and dryer here are behind some nice bi-fold doors.  We store the toilet paper on a shelf above the appliances.  For some reason the last three in the bag fell off the shelf and into the very small space between the wall and the dryer.  Dear One could not retrieve them so he took off the right bi-fold door, pulled out the toilet paper and a Costco insulated shopping bag that I had put there to store.  And then he put the bi-fold doors back on.

Well, he tried. And tried.  And tried.  This was at bedtime and I was lying in bed reading The Book of Mormon before going to sleep as I always do, at least I always do this when I am participating in The Book of Mormon Translation Challenge.  Being mostly oblivious to what is going on around me when I am lost in a book, I did not become aware of what was going on with the doors.  Finally I did and went out to "help".

Door maybe properly installed

We spent a LONG time working on getting the doors back in.  We got the little rod into the top hole but could not get it into the bottom groove.  And we definitely could not get the white rolling ball into the track.  Oh, that is wrong: we COULD get them all into the proper places, just not all at the same time.  Eventually we gave it up and started again in the morning. I had watched a YouTube video on installing bi-fold doors. It is a snap.  Just watch that video and you will see how easy it is.

Not so easy in real life.  After quite a while we managed to get both of the doors into their tracks and were able to close the doors.  Still not right but they work so we will go back to them some day when we feel better about a possible successful outcome.

Not quite right, but workable