How to adjust sliding glass doors.
How to adjust sliding glass door rollers.
This video is going to show you how to adjust your door s rollers to ensure smooth operation and maintain weather tightness.
Many doors have a small plastic guide at the middle of the lower rail.
If an off track roller isn t the problem you ll have to remove the doors to adjust and possibly replace the rollers.
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You can alter the height of these rollers by accessing the adjustment screws which are set into slots on the door s outer edges perpendicular with the rollers themselves.
On the bottom portion of your sliding glass door you should see a small hole on each side of the door.
As the framing inside the door opening settles the tracks raise or lower with the floor.
The sliding panel should glide across the tracks when you open the door without jamming.
How to adjust sliding glass door rollers for a smoother ride.
Every standard sliding glass door has adjustable rollers that help it slide back and forth within the track.
Others have a guide rail screwed to the door photo 1.
Most sliding glass doors contain two sets of rollers one on each side of the bottom of the door.
Locate the adjustment screws on the lower edges of the door.
Over time the framing of your home settles.
There are holes on your sliding glass door that conceal the adjusting screws to these rollers.
To remove this type of guide just remove a single screw.
These holes hide the adjustment screw for the coordinating rollers.