How To Fix Sliding Glass Door Handle

I picked up the other stuff and wandered over to the sliding glass door handle aisle.

How to fix sliding glass door handle.

How to repair a sliding door tuning up a balky door for sliding glass door repair. Finalize your project by replacing your screw covers back on your door s handle. To start your sliding glass door adjustment. Replace the screw covers.

You should find a few screws around the edge of the handle which need to be unscrewed or you may have a screw on the edge of the door frame. For some door handles over tightening the mounting plate binds up the inner mechanisms forcing the lockset to not work at all. Lift the door out. Remove the screws that hold the stop molding.

From looking online i knew these handles were kind of expensive at 47 50 and. First remove the screws securing the door handle in place first with your phillips screwdriver and slide the outer latch lever out of place. Cut the paint or varnish line on the room side of the. Remove these screws and the handle should simply fall off.

Take your graphite pen and insert it into the lowermost screw hole quickly to prevent the latch from falling into the frame. I looked at the selection and noticed that they didn t have what i wanted. It was as simple as two screws. Just tighten the handles enough so that by testing your sliding glass door handle it no longer wiggles.

You may need to pry it off with the edge of a flat headed screwdriver if it has been on the door a while. I squirted it in the door handle holes as well as the side of the door where the lock comes out.