I have three sliding-glass doors that need maintenance. As you can see from the floorplan below, my apartment has two ways to reach the balcony. First, by the double sliding doors in the living room. And second, by the smaller slider in the bedroom. All of the doors are Technoglass, floor-to-ceiling, about 8 feet tall, and were installed in 1996. The double doors are 37-inches wide each. The bedroom door is 32-inches wide.

Facing the balcony from the living room, you see the double doors – the right and the left. The right door’s slider is way out of alignment. In the photo below, you can see the vertical stile pressed against the sill.

The left slider is a bit better; I can slide a sheet of paper in-between its stile & sill. And it will move, though it takes a lot of strength.

The slider in the bedroom continues to work just fine after 29 years of no maintenance at all. However, it has been getting more difficult to open recently, so it needs to be fixed.

The bedroom door’s lock works. The lock on the left door is stuck. I’m hoping that it will resume functioning once its door is brought back into alignment.

I think these doors were knocked out of alignment by Hurricane Irma in 2017. The double doors were perpendicular to the high winds coming from the east, which pressed on the doors for hours and hours. The bedroom door was in-line with the wind, and so it didn’t take as much of a beating. Since I don’t use the balcony very much, I didn’t notice anything was wrong for several months because the sliders look normal, and make a good seal. It wasn’t until I tried to take my bike out to the balcony for a greasy, bottom-bracket repair that I noticed the left slider was stuck.

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Because they are high-quality windows, in a well-constructed building, I think the odds are good that there is no serious damage to the sliders. And that they will respond well to realignment. The track and rail look serviceable, but if a roller is broken then I will have to rethink things.

This photo shows the right slider and its stationary panel:

Aside from the misalignment, nothing As you can see, there are no apparent problems with the glass, frame, or any other structural issue. The sliders are fully closed, and make a good seal, so this is not an emergency.

The rollers may be old, but they are lightly used, and may still have some life in them.

This job is in Miami Beach.

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