Many screen repair shops use a 4 x 8 table covered with carpeting to protect the screen doors painted finish.
How to repair sliding door screen.
In this video we show you how to re screen your damaged sliding screen door using only very basic hand tools.
Once you have the door removed lay the sliding screen down on a flat surface with lots of room around you.
Without the use of a large table it s a little.
A spline rolling tool makes this job much easier.
A sliding screen is supported on rollers that ride in a track.
Again this is a fairly simple problem to fix.
They roll on little plastic wheels.
Then pull the bottom out and lower the door until it clears the top edge of the frame.
Lift it until the rollers clear the track.
Repairing a sliding door screen.
If it fits too loosely in the tracks any vertical movement of the door will cause it to come unseated and it will fall.
Lay the sliding patio door s new screen over the frame with overlap on all sides before you begin pressing one end of the rubber spline into the channel.
Sliding patio screen doors don t actually slide.
In some instances the sliding screen door will fall out repeatedly because it is too small.
Install the new screen.
Replacing wheels is easy and takes less than an hour.
Begin in a corner and work your way around the frame keeping the screen tight as you go.
Almost all sliding patio doors are adjustable when it comes to height.