Over time the framing of your home settles.
Sliding patio door wheel adjustment.
The sliding panel should glide across the tracks when you open the door without jamming.
By the time you re finished the door should be sitting perfectly level on the track and there should be an equal amount of space between the door and the track on both the top and bottom.
Sliding closet doors operate on rollers that are positioned in tracks at the top jamb and floor allowing the doors to bypass each other in the tracks.
First make sure the track for the wheels is clean.
Maintaining sliding closet doors.
As the framing inside the door opening settles the tracks raise or lower with the floor.
If the door still drags or it s obvious a wheel is broken it s time to replace the wheels and do a patio screen door replacement.
Adjusting the rollers on your pella sliding door may be necessary to keep the door operating smoothly.
Because sliding doors don t fold out the way bifold doors do they allow access to only half the width of the opening at a time.
If your sliding patio door is hard to slide while opening and closing the rollers may need be to adjusted.
But putting an end to the drag is no drag at all.
If you re not sure whether the door is straight pull it.
The best time to be sure a sliding patio door is properly adjusted is before it starts sticking in its track or hopping out of it.
Open the door slightly and look at the reveal or.
Then try adjusting the wheels photo 5.
Continue adjusting the rollers until the door glides smoothly.
It may take a few attempts before you get the door rolling without resistance.