How To Fix The Latch On A Sliding Glass Door
Turning this screw raises or lowers the roller.
How to fix the latch on a sliding glass door. First remove the screws securing the door handle in place first with your phillips screwdriver and slide the outer latch lever out of place. Remove the screws above and below the latch. Raise it just enough to clear the track and roll smoothly. Locate the two adjusting screws at the bottom of the door on the face or edge of the door and pry off the trim caps that cover the screws.
Give the screw a clockwise turn and test to see whether the door slides easier. Step 3 removing the screws two screws on the end of the door secure the latch. You may also want to check out our step by step guideto adjusting your sliding doors. Remove the handles from the door using a philips head screwdriver.
Align it in the bottom track and then tilt it up. On some sliding glass door locks the door handles have long screws that go right through the steel mortised lock and there is usually a actuating lever that slides into a rectangular hole in the lock. Take your graphite pen and insert it into the lowermost screw hole quickly to prevent the latch from falling into the frame. Reattach the head stop first otherwise it could fall out.
Most sliding doors have a mechanism called an adjusting screw located at the bottom of the door ends. Place the door handle over the screw holes on the interior side of the door frame followed by the screws and hand tighten the screws. Leave the screw driver in. Place the interior side of the door lock frame into the door.
If the door becomes even harder to open turn the screw in the opposite direction. Tighten the screws with a phillips head screw driver. Then replace the bottom screw in the hole where it was affixed to the handle to prevent the latch from falling into the doorframe. Insert a screw driver through the bottom handle hole on the inside of the sliding glass door to hold the latch in place.