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Installing Impact-Resistant Sliding Glass Doors

Bob joins Scott Renfroe from Great Southern Windows for the installation of nine foot by eight foot sliding patio doors. Like the windows throughout the house, these are WinGuard impact-resistant glass doors from PGT Industries. The door opening, like the window bucks, has a pre-cast concrete lip that will prevent the door from blowing in and give it a firm seat for installation. An installer is laying a bed of mud or concrete mortar on the door sill to make a bed for the door frame. Renfroe explains that this helps set the door and also gives a soft bed to help level it. Once the frame has been set in the wet mortar and adjusted for level, temporary screws are installed in the frame so that Renfroe can check for plumb and begin to shim the gaps. He installs set screws, places the shims, drills through them, checks for plumb, then pre-drills and drives the permanent screws into the concrete walls. The frame will sit for at least a day while the mortar sets up because installing the heavy glass panels would compact the mud and disturb the level.

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Installing Impact-Resistant Sliding Glass Doors

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" All right so this is the frame Scott for the big patio door what's the dimensions. Let's just let's just lean it up here for a second that this the -- so it's nine feet eight inches wide. Eight feet high. And that your brother is laying down mud now what's the point of this."

" The mud is to secure the frame to. Concrete it just fit down there had expected. Little stripper yeah we have always did it leveling. And just like in the windows we do have this. To butt up against right that there are you. The riser on the back if he's spraying. Are set -- with a door will not push through right now we have either. It would go -- shed blood and it right it will open they'll."

" So you can put the frame in. While the mortar sets up."

" And we were level. -- before the mud is hard yeah. So that we know we don't have to worry about moving it anymore sure. Temporary screw. -- Why work. Not going anywhere."

" All right so it's level now let's check for bomb. Well."

" And we have plumb. We also have some fixing to do here. Who has -- sits -- On the bottom. You have to -- it movement else us. Not moving brightness that there. Preparation -- And we have put shims -- now. Today coat just that would need for. And."

" We are there. We are lucky. Is it doing there. But I knew that sooner or later -- can see wooden shims on this job."

" That's not going lawyers. We'll you know big belly yet beautiful relief for the -- That we know nothing is gonna move everything's gonna stay where it's. When we start puts the screws that. Good right there."

" All right so. First you drill. And then you drive. There OK no actually put in the sliders. Afterward but set up. The panels were really really there yet this class is very Aires there we won't be able to do them today all right thanks."

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