Specialising in leaking sliding glass door repairs, we provide prompt and professional service across Sydney. Water damage can severely impact your sliding doors, but our experienced team is equipped to address and rectify any issues.
If you need sliding door repairs in Sydney and your door is letting in water, we can help.
Our door repairs will solve water ingress problems to glass, aluminum, timber, french, screen, internal, and wardrobe doors.
Water can pool on the balcony and enter your home from underneath the door jamb, causing water damage.
Water could also fill the bottom sliding door tracks and spill into your home.
If this is the type of water ingress you are experiencing, call us today.
What will water damage and water ingress around sliding doors look like?
If water enters your home after rain, apparent signs will be dampness and dew.
If water enters your home from underneath the sliding door, stains will appear on the floorboards, and you will also have an unpleasant smell.
Stepping outside the sliding doors, water ingress on balconies will appear differently but should be taken as seriously as inside your home.
If water ingress occurs on your balcony, you could see an efflorescence and pinholes forming in the grout. Water will collect underneath the tiles and escape through these pinholes.
The best way to identify water ingress in homes is with thermal cameras. This is where our profession ends and when you should seek help from professional waterproofing companies.
How we can help with water ingress on sliding doors
If water enters your home from the balcony and underneath the sliding door jamb, we can apply sealant between these two points. If the water is not entering from any other area, your water ingress problems should be solved.
If the water fills the bottom tracks of the sliding door and spills into your home, then servicing your sliding door is necessary.
To service the sliding door, we will need to disassemble it completely.
This will allow us to clean the weep holes so that the rainwater that falls on the sliding door can run down into the tracks, through the weep holes, and finally run outside.
If you have an older glass sliding door, it will not have weep holes, so to solve the water ingress problem, we can cut in drainage gaps for you.
We must replace the rollers to ensure the door slides and lines up in the frame correctly.
There may also be holes in the sliding door track where slide bolts or fasteners used to be. Since these holes can be a potential problem for water ingress, we will seal them for you.
Why is water entering my home around my sliding door?
So long as the water is not entering from anywhere other than the sliding door, there are two primary reasons people have water ingress around sliding doors.
One could be as simple as having an old sliding door that needs repairs or your sliding door is not up to code.
NSW guide to standards and tolerances outlines how glass sliding doors should be installed and maintained correctly.
The guide insists on a 40mm upstand beneath the sub sill flashing, weep holes clear of debris, a water stop angle on the inside floor, and a waterproof membrane to protect homes from water ingress.
Construction codes require balconies with glass sliding doors to have a 1:100 fall for drainage, balcony overflows, and correct drainage.
Regulations like these are helpful guides for correctly installing, repairing, and maintaining sliding doors to solve the problem of water ingress.
Water entering the home is a severe problem, and we strongly recommend seeking help from professionals sooner rather than later.
Give the Lock Roll and Tracks team a call today and we’ll discuss your door repair and provide a free quote. We look forward to helping you get your door sliding like new again.
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