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Hi, my name is Lizette LaForge from Beacon
Windows.
And today I wanted to take just a couple of
minutes to talk to you about some things we're
noticing along the beachfront communities here
with impact doors that are 4 to 7 years old.
Impact doors are a lot lot heavier than typical
standard sliding glass doors from yesteryear.
And we're starting to see some problems that
are causing us some great concern.
We thought we'd make a quick video to show you
how to look for these issues in your door. if
you're actually having a problem. So you'll
understand what to do about it, when that's
happening.
Here's an example of an impact door. Now this
is a great test. Bring the door up almost to
the lock but leave a little bit of a crack.
And then watch what happens as you see my
finger. We're going to take this finger, we're
going to move it on up. And you're going to see
that the crack is getting wider as we get at
the top.
See how that's going, all the way to the top,
much, much, much wider. And we also notice as
we get to the top that the weather stripping
has gotten beat up pretty badly in the door
system.
So when we see a crack that's crooked like
that, what that indicated to us is that this
panel that we have in the door system has, in
this case, has moved backwards a little bit.
It's tighter at the bottom than it is at the
top, ok. And that's definitely telling me that
I'm having a system issue with the wheels.
Now when wheels get out of whack, they cause a
number of problems. Some of the problems start
with the locking mechanism.
So a really good indicator, or symptom if you
will, could be actually a problem with your
lock. And I'm going to show you, first I'm
going to try to open this door which is a
little bit challenging.
And I'm going to open it just a little bit. But
I want to show you something in the locking
system.
And sometimes you'll see these get damaged
rather badly. Because what will happen is this
heavy door which weighs about 300 pounds is
smashing into, either pushing upward,
like In this case you'll see the damage is on
the bottom. And that makes sense because this
door is crooked that direction.
If this damage was, if the door was crooked in
this direction, you'd see this being broken,
ok. But this particular keeper type situation
is also, you can see on this side of the door.
Let's push the door open a little bit further
and you will see that this particular keeper
and this particular locking mechanism are
really having some challenges.
You know this one is very very loose from the
inside. We see it all broken. And this is very
commonly happening because the door gets
crooked and it breaks the lock by accident,
because of the weight of the door.
So another issue that we see a lot of and I
want to bring your attention down toward to the
track area. So as we come on down here, you're
going to see this, a little bit of damage in
the track.
Track's not real bad in this case. But what
we're seeing is a serious amount of rubbing
right in here.
This is supposed to be smooth just like it is
over in here. But we start to see, right in
this area here, that it's to get very very
abraded.
And over here I can actually feel this is quite
rough, with my fingers. So this is telling me
that this heavy heavy door is out of whack
somehow.
It's crooked, it's pushed backwards and somehow
this edge in this particular area is getting
mashed on by the heavy door system. Which is
what is causing this problem in the first
place.
So when we take a look at a door system, we
have to look at the whole thing and really
basically unify it. We're going to take this
one apart.
We're going to put in stainless steel rollers.
We're going to put in stainless steel locking
mechanism to fix the lock system.
We're going to try to address what's going on
with that rubbing. So that we make the whole
entire door healthy again and much easier to
open.
Now it's still a 300 pound door,so it's going
to be still rather weighty. But if you put good
quality rollers in with stainless steel and
sealed bearings, you get a lot longer life and
a lot easier use, you know.
One of the things we wanted to mention is when
you have an older door system, they weigh maybe
80-85 pounds. These newer doors that weigh so
much more.
When a problem starts to happen, these more
aggravated issues come up.
And I use the example, it's kind of like, if
you're dancing with someone and they're an
elephant and they step on your foot. You're
going to the hospital, ok. So you want to avoid
this type of an issue happening in your door
system as much as you can.
So look for the crookedness in the door. Look
for damaged lock issue. And look down in your
track and see if you've got something going on
in there.
If you have any of those three things, try to
figure out what's going on or call a
professional. And we'll come in and fix it for
you.
So we fixed this door. Let's take a look at
what we've done in this door. You'll notice
it's much, much, much smoother. It's real easy
to work.
You hear a little bit of the wheels as they're
working their way, as they're starting to get
used. That noise will dissipate in time.
You also hear a little bit of whooshing sound
because we replaced all the weather stripping
all the way around the door.
So that whooshing is when the weather
stripping's gliding past some things and that's
a normal sound.
Keep in mind weather stripping is designed to
keep air intrusion and water intrusion out or
in. Depending on which direction you want to
have good quality weather stripping.
We also replaced the lock. And funny enough,
when we took this door system apart we noticed
there were 4 other locks down at the bottom
that had broken and fallen in.
So what that's telling us, remember locks are
indicators. when you have a problem with a lock
system like that and that's repetitive.
It's telling you there's something going on
with this door. The broken crookedness of it is
causing the locks to break. And that's why
their having repetitive issues with it.
Now let's take a look at what we did down here
in the track. Push that door out of the way and
we'll bring you down here to look at this track
area.
We have put what is called the stainless steel
track over it. This is a special kind of track
that's going to give a lot of life to this door
It basically gives a new surface for the
rollers to work on. Brand spanking new. And we
also were able to make the adjustments here so
we don't hear this scrapping noise that was
causing the damage on this sidewall here.
And then I'm going to go ahead and close the
door back up so we can kind of get a feel for
how this door looks now, what it's supposed to
look like.
You notice as we go all the way up, it's nice
and smooth and even. We've got some nice
weather stripping going on there.
This is the way your door is supposed to look
when it's correct. Should be even all the way
from top to bottom. And it should open very,
very, very smoothly, ok.
So what we do, we specialize as a company in
fixing impact doors like this. Understanding
how they work in harmony as a single system.
In addition to that we work with older doors as
well. We specialize in corrosion issues. We
replace things with stainless steel wherever
possible.
We work with the higher quality products
because what we're looking to do is give you
longevity in your door systems.
If you have any questions please feel free to
give us a call. You can reach us through
www.SliderRepair.com or you can reach me on my
personal cell, at 727-641-8106.
We're more than happy to help you. We'll really
try hard to do a great job for you. Thanks.