ALUMINUM SLIDING GLASS DOOR REMOVAL

linger week I explained how to dimensions your existing sliding glass door so you engagement order the recording fill-in door. This week I am going to go over the steps required to remove the hackneyed sliding door before installing its new door.

First, you have to remove the sliding panel and the stationary panel. The vast majority of doors out trained have the sliding panel on its inside half of the track, and its stationary panel is on the outside. Whatever the case control your particular door, the outside panel has to come out first. To remove the symbolic panel, we need to remove the sill cap that snaps into its bottom track and runs from the fixed panel to the slant jamb where the sliding panel locks. Force a screwdriver into the crease further pry the cap up. Then, look for screws on the inside side upright holding the specific panel spell place. These screws prevent someone from prying up the sill cap and pulling out the fixed panel in order to gain anteroom into the home. In addition to the angle jamb, be sure to check opposite the top dry run and bottom track for screws there as well. Once all the screws have been removed, you need to pull the especial panel divided from the side jamb. You can start by simply grabbing the side lambaste of the fixed panel and pulling as formidable in that we can. If you're lucky, the panel cede pop free. Then we charge cooperation the row up as far as unfeigned will go into the top channel besides swing the bottom away from the track, and remove the panel. Now, I said "if you're lucky", because in superlatively cases the panel will be stuck in the side jamb, the bottom track, or both. Usually, you're going to have to use the pry bar to loosen the fixed panel before it will slide out of the side jamb. once the fixed panel is out, removal of the sliding panel is usually easier. Just lift up and rein the bottom away from its track, then remove the panel. Sometimes the bottom rollers will discourage its bottom from swinging out of the track. If that's its case, you will need to find its roller adjustment hole drag its bottom corners of the sliding panel. Put the screwdriver into this rupture and turn the screw counterclockwise to bring the roller as far up into the bottom of the sliding panel considering imaginable. This should allow the slider to come out.

Now, you want to remove all the screws from the side jambs, top header, also bottom pathway. Then, take a pry bar further get it under the bottom track about in the center. Pry up until the track is separated from the floor. The next march will depend on whether your old habitus is nailed to the house frame, or easily screwed reputation. If it's screwed in, then the constitution should as typify loose ascendancy the opening, since we removed all of the screws. You becoming need to remove whatever inside trim there might be around the door frame. This shape of frame should come out. If your door is nailed to the abode frame, you will have to do the bit more vim. Use a hacksaw to blemish the track in half, approximately in the center. Start with either half and raise the cut piece up towards the side jamb until the its track piece separates from its side jamb. Do the same thing to the other half.

So, now you have to remove the side jambs. You want to do this without damaging the exterior material that surrounds the door build. Take a heavy chisel besides pound firm into the crack between the frame and exterior material, whether it's stucco, siding, etc. start at the bottom 6 inches first. What you are trying to do is pull the nail fin away from the nails holding it in place. So, once the chisel is pounded through the metal frame, pry away from the facet wall. The more and longer the chisel, the more leverage you will have. You will hear the frame "pop" free of the nail. There leave be several nails holding each jamb in place, forasmuch as you want to start at the bottom and work your way to the top corner. Once you get the base third loose, many times you can grab the upright with both hands and pull the rest of the nails free as we go up. When you get to the opening corner, work the post charitable. Do both jambs, then consummate the top. Sometimes the top has no nails, or just one in the center, so it will come down pretty easily. Be sure to wear safety glasses and a dust mask when doing this job, generally when removing the introduction header.

At this point you are ready to install the new door. The installation procedure is slightly different, depending on whether you're installing a retrofit style frame or a replacement frame. We will discuss both procedures next week.