Sliding Patio Door Height Adjustment

All it takes is a few turns of the adjusting screw on the edge of the bottom rail of the door.

Sliding patio door height adjustment.

Most sliding glass doors contain two sets of rollers one on each side of the bottom of the door. Turning this screw raises or lowers the roller. The patio door will meet the jamb at an offset angle if one roller is higher than the other. 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.

Give the screw a clockwise turn and test to see whether the door slides easier. As the framing inside the door opening settles the tracks raise or lower with the floor. Determine the distances before the procedure. Also called sliding glass doors these doors are designed to glide horizontally with one operating panel and one stationary panel.

The lock will not meet up with the frame latch unless the rollers hold the door the correct height. Tinker around with the roller screws to see if the door glides better when it s at a lower or higher height. This adjustment screw will move the roller height up or down and thus your sliding glass door height will go up or down by as much as 1 4 inch or 1 2 cm. Locate the adjustment screws on the lower edges of the door.

In order to adjust the height of a patio or balcony door you have to use the corner bearing. A sliding door will be out of alignment with the frame when the rollers need adjusting. Most sliding doors have a mechanism called an adjusting screw located at the bottom of the door ends. They fit into tighter spaces than our hinged doors because their panels don t interfere with your room or patio.

The sliding panel should glide across the tracks when you open the door without jamming. For perfect height levelling the upper and lower distance between the leaf and the frame must be exactly the same. C the parallel adjusting of the height of patio doors.