How To Take Out Sliding Door Rollers
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How to take out sliding door rollers. Once removed have your partner help you tilt it and move it out of the doorway. Alternatively if you have an aluminum door take out the screws around the rollers and use a hammer and a wooden block to remove the bottom panel from the door. The rollers are located on the bottom of the sliding door and give the door the ability to slide. This enables the door to come out easily.
Every sliding glass door has adjustment screws that hold the rollers of the door in place. Often times they get dirty and wear out making it difficult to open the door. This makes the door very difficult to open or close until the problem is fixed. 4 removing the sliding door before removing the door slide it to the point in the track where you see an indent.
So you ll need to put the panel on it s side take out the screw in the corner then flip the panel over removing other screw in the bottom corner. Once you have the sliding glass door out most sliding door rollers are held in position by the same screw which keeps the door corners together. If you have an older sliding glass door your rollers may have become rusty because sliding door units did not always use stainless steel rollers. Use the phillips screwdriver to loosen the adjustment screws so you can pull up the rollers.
You should now be able to freely lift the sliding glass door out of the frame and out of the track. Then tilt it slightly with help and remove it from the upper track of the door frame as well. If the rollers supporting the sliding door move off the track then the whole door will move out of alignment. Then take out the old rollers and slide in the new ones before reinstalling the bottom panel.
While cleaning the rollers can be a solution if a crack or bend occurs it s best to replace them with new rollers.