Pocket door repair:
California Sliding Door & Window Specialists can replace your pocket door track and rollers without cutting a hole in your wall by using our patented pocket door tool that we designed ourselves, this means you will not require patching or painting of your wall after the repair has been completed.


Sliding Glass Door Track replacements:
California Sliding Door & Window Specialists exclusive fiberglass, anti-corrosion treatment package is guaranteed to prevent corrosion under your patio door track; even in the most extreme conditions, unlike the plastics, mastics, silicones, galvanized sheeting, flat paper and other cheaper, so called " Quick Fix " solutions offered by other companies.

We have tried them all in years past and found ourselves going back to redo the job because the corrosion under the track went right through these materials.

Please note: the most common “Quick Fix” offered by other companies are replacing the patio door track with a plastic liner beneath to prevent corrosion. The corrosion returned like a cancer and spread to the side frames (side frames are unavailable for replacement), consequently, the homeowner had to replace the entire door.


SERVICE, SERVICE, SERVICE...
As sliding door repair specialists, California Sliding Door & Window Specialists see the problems caused by faulty designs and poor or improper installations. Our job is to trouble shoot, remove, and repair or replaces faulty or damaged products and hardware, with minimal disruption to your home. Most repairs or new product installations are complete in less than 1 day.


Sliding Doors Don’t Slide, They Roll…
Millions of homeowners struggle everyday to move the sliding door accessing their patio, deck or pool. Their sliding doors have not been easy to open or close for many years. And the recommendations from friends to coat the track with grease, silicone or WD-40 has provided only temporary relief

A lubricant would help if the doors really did slide, but they don’t. Sliding patio doors, produced by hundreds of different manufacturers since the middle of the last century, actually roll on wheels. These “rollers” are hidden in the bottom horizontal frame of the door.

The rollers (wheels) are typically made of zinc-coated steel (some can be stainless and some are made of a hard nylon). There is an area near each corner in the bottom (metal or wood) frame of the door for each roller assembly. Each assembly consists of a housing, at least one wheel, a bearing assembly, an axel pin, and usually a height adjustment screw.

The dimensions of the housing, diameter of the wheel and mounting style can be unique to a specific brand of door. There are hundreds of different roller assemblies, and wheel diameters can range from ¾” to 3”. The number of wheels and their diameter is usually related to the size and weight of the door.

The lubricated bearings, which carry the load and allow the wheel to rotate smoothly, will wear over time. When the bearings gradually become worn, the wheels begin to drag…making the door harder to move…little by little.

As the bearings become worn, homeowners, who have enjoyed the use of their sliding patio door for at least a decade or more, hardly notice the gradual resistance and drag in the door’s operation and have come to accept that this is the way the door moves and it has always moved.

Eventually, the bearings become so worn the rollers become “frozen”, and don’t roll at all (this is the point where the homeowner begins to apply the grease).

In reality, the correct solution is to just have the roller assemblies replaced. It can take a sliding door professional less than an hour (under ideal circumstances) to install new rollers.

It is recommended that roller assemblies be replaced every ten years. Unfortunately, finding a qualified professional who has access to the specific replacement rollers for your door can be frustrating. Local home centers carry just a few styles and many obsolete assemblies may require some creative retrofitting. California Sliding Door & Window Specialists carries most types of sliding door rollers in stock and is ready to fix your sliding door so it operates properly again.

If your sliding patio door cannot be moved with one finger in either direction…the movement is noisy, or the track displays gouges…you most likely need your rollers replaced and/or a new track.

There is seldom a cost-effective reason to replace an entire sliding door system when simple maintenance can address all issues.

Safety Glass - "It's the Law"
Since 1977, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has required the use of safety glass in both stationary & sliding sections of patio doors. Our company installs safety glass whenever required by law. As members of the National Glass Association, our company subscribes fully to a professional Code of Ethics and will advise you against using any glass product not specifically designed and approved for the use in the application you contemplate. Your safety, and the safety of your family, guests, and visitors is the responsibility we take very seriously. Company Policy: Our employees are expressly forbidden to install glass that does not conform to safety in any door opening.

Your safety must come first!
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has documented 75,000 injuries, some fatalities, involving sliding glass doors in the last 10 years. Lacerations and cuts were commonplace in doors without safety glass.

Can you recognize safety glass?
There are two main types of safety glass: tempered and laminated. Tempered: is glass that is heat-treated so that, if broken, it crumbles into hundreds of pebbles with rounded edges. Tempered glass must be marked with a "bug" or logo that identifies that piece of glass as safety glass. The "bug" may vary, but will always contain reference to the American National Standards Institute standard ANSI Z-97.1. Often the Consumer Product Safety Commission standard (16CFR-1201) is also included.

Two examples of tempered glass; "Bugs."
Laminated glass, unlike tempered glass, can be cut into sections and installed. Cutting laminated glass to size may result in the removal of identifying "bugs". Unless the glass is broken, the identification of laminated glass is difficult for the untrained eye. Laminated glass consists of two pieces of glass with a middle layer of vinyl, which is heat and pressure treated. The vinyl layer keeps the glass intact when broken and prevents body parts from penetrating the glass pane.

Unbroken tempered glass, a possible hazard?
If one panel of your patio door system has been shattered into sharp, dangerous pieces, the chances are good that all the panels are non-safety glass. Federal law and all building codes require safety glass in all openings and adjacent panels of openings for human passage. Glazing contractors are required by law; and because California Sliding Door & Window Specialists rigidly adheres to this law, we will refuse jobs if we are asked to use materials that do not conform to safety standards.