Installing a Vinyl Sliding Glass Door

December 25th, 2006

This article is feat to be most exchange an older sliding glass door with a recent Vinyl frame sliding glass door. If you currently have french doors and you poverty to replace them with sliding doors, or vise versa, forthcoming articles will cover that topic.

The first abstract we have to do is measure for the replacement door. You poverty to measure crossways the bottom, center, and crowning of the existing door frame to encounter the narrowest dimension. Start correct and measure at the saucer where the older door frame stops and the outdoor material starts. That material can be stucco, siding, or brick. Measure crossways in the 3 places: bottom, center, and top. Record the smallest dimension. Then go exclusive and do the same thing. You poverty to measure where the frame ends and the drywall, plaster, or sheetrock begins. Take all sextet measurements, encounter the narrowest one, and cypher 3/4″. That is the width of the new door. Now, when you measure the height, you can do it meet on the outside. Measure the left, center, and correct lateral from the connector where the bottom road sits, up to the crowning where the older frame ends and the outdoor material begins. Take the narrowest dimension and cypher 1/2″. That is your peak of the new door. Then, watch which lateral the sliding panel should be on. The immobile panel is designated by the honor “O”, and the person is an “X”. In most areas of the country, you call it discover by looking at the door from correct and datum mitt to right. So, if you were correct looking at your door, and you poverty the sliding panel to close to the correct wall, you would communicate for an “OX”. However, because i have fresh unconcealed that not all parts of the land do it this way, my suasion is to communicate the moneyman how they feature the opening before placing your order.

Next, you have to end whether you poverty a retrofit frame or a replacement frame. If the older frame is dowse with the outdoor material, much as in the housing of stucco, then you poverty to get the retrofit frame, which comes with the correct fin. That will decimate the need to cut the outside. If you have brick or railroad close the opening, then you need to get a replacement frame and cut the correct yourself. You can ingest wood, vinyl, or another flower materials available in most field hardware accumulation chains. You also need to measure the depth of the older frame. The eld of vinyl replacement doors have a frame depth of 4 3/4″. Most door openings, when framed, have a depth of 5 1/2″ to the inner opencast of the wall, whether it’s drywall, plaster, or whatever else. Therefore, when you install the new door, you will need to add whatever variety of cut creation to physique the exclusive of the door frame so it is dowse with the surround surface. We delude vinyl extrusions specifically for this purpose. It’s a two example grouping that allows you to alter the frame dowse with the wall, then administer the margin to the surround and door frame to closing it. Pictures and descriptions of the products are available by feat to http://www.how-to-install-windows.com and clicking on “shop”.

You poverty to be sure and order all of the materials you will need to do the employ at the same instance that you order the replacement door. That way, when the new door comes in 2 to 4 weeks later, you will have everything primed to do the job. In constituent to any cut needed, you are also feat to need caulk, a listing of R-13 Insulation, liquefied nails for the track, 4″ embellish screws, shims, detritus masks, and country glasses. Once the new door arrives, it will be instance to verify discover the older door. That will be our matter in incoming week’s article.

By Evangelist Rocco.

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