Never leave the glass door unattended.
Sliding glass doors how to lift off track.
You don t have to take the screws out completely unless there s no other way to get the door off the track.
Be careful sliding doors can be very heavy.
You can test this by lifting the door once the screw heads are poking out of their sockets.
Kung fu maintenance demonstrates how to replace some wheels that are not rolling right on a patio slider door that is coming out of it s track and not rollin.
Keep unscrewing if the door won t lift.
To remove the screen door use a flathead screwdriver.
Then sharply angle the bottom of the door outward and lift the door from the track.
Then lift the door up and out of the track laying it down carefully across two sawhorses.
One of the security risks with the majority of sliding glass doors is that they are relatively easy to lift out of their tracks in the past we ve always recommended that clients hire a locksmith to install locks on both the top and bottom of sliding doors to help deal with this risk.
Start with the removal of the screen door.
Sliding doors are very heavy very breakable and very expensive this is a two person job.
If your sliding glass doors don t have the screen door then you may move on to the next step.
First slide open the door completely and remove the head stop.
If the door lifts up from the track easily don t unscrew any further.