Sliding Patio Door Height Adjustment

Most sliding doors have a mechanism called an adjusting screw located at the bottom of the door ends.

Sliding patio door height adjustment.

The sliding panel should glide across the tracks when you open the door without jamming. 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. 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.

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. Adjusting the rollers on your pella sliding doors raises or lowers the door panel as necessary to get the door working. As the framing inside the door opening settles the tracks raise or lower with the floor. A sliding door will be out of alignment with the frame when the rollers need adjusting.

C the parallel adjusting of the height of patio doors. They fit into tighter spaces than our hinged doors because their panels don t interfere with your room or patio. All it takes is a few turns of the adjusting screw on the edge of the bottom rail of the door. Determine the distances before the procedure.

Give the screw a clockwise turn and test to see whether the door slides easier. Also called sliding glass doors these doors are designed to glide horizontally with one operating panel and one stationary panel. Tinker around with the roller screws to see if the door glides better when it s at a lower or higher height. For perfect height levelling the upper and lower distance between the leaf and the frame must be exactly the same.

Most sliding glass doors contain two sets of rollers one on each side of the bottom of the door. Over time the framing of your home settles. The lock will not meet up with the frame latch unless the rollers hold the door the correct height.