Patio Door Repair in Oakville
Sliding patio doors that drag, jump the track, will not lock or have fogged between the panes — rollers, tracks, locks and glass units replaced on the door you already have, across Oakville, from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Door work we've done in Oakville — for Ruby Crest Homes Inc, Oakville Place dental office, Octacon Inc, Stress Free Property Management Inc, Ontario Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre, Kensington Retirement Residence — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Patio Door Repair across Oakville
We repair patio doors in houses, townhouses and condos across Oakville — Old Oakville, Glen Abbey, Bronte, River Oaks and the streets around them. Most of the sliding doors we see are builder-grade aluminum or vinyl units, and on those the rollers and the lock wear out long before the frame does.
- Population
- 213,759
- Neighbourhoods
- Old Oakville, Glen Abbey, Bronte and River Oaks
- Serving since
- 1979
- Old Oakville
- Glen Abbey
- Bronte
- River Oaks
- Clearview
- Joshua Creek
- Falgarwood
- West Oak Trails
Broken patio door in Oakville: we dispatch 24/7.
Oakville is roughly a 25-minute run from our Mississauga shop — less if a technician is already in the area — so a truck is usually on site the same day.
Emergency board-up, security and make-safe first — permanent repair scheduled after.
Broken patio door glass in Oakville
A cracked or shattered pane is the patio door call we get most. The frame, rollers and lock are usually fine, so only the glass unit is replaced — in the door you already have.
Made safe first
After a break-in we come out overnight — to Old Oakville, Glen Abbey or anywhere else in Oakville — clear the glass and board up the opening so the house can be locked. A crack that still holds waits for a daytime visit.Measured for a new unit
Patio door glass is tempered, usually a double-glazed sealed unit. The new one is made to your panel's size, with Low-E and gas fill if the original had them.Fitted into your existing panel
One visit to measure, one to fit. With the panel out, we check the rollers and weatherstrip too.Don't slide a cracked panel: tempered glass can break all at once. Keep it closed and call us.
Aluminum or vinyl — what the frame changes about a patio door repair in Oakville
Most sliding patio doors in Oakville houses have either an aluminum frame or a vinyl one. The parts that wear out are the same kind of part on both. The frame decides how those parts are adjusted, which of them wear out first, and at what point the door is no longer worth repairing.
Fix a dragging or sticking patio door in Oakville
After a break-in, or if the door will not lock or the glass is broken, call 800-522-6825 — the line is answered 24 hours and we come out overnight to board it up. For a door that drags, grinds, jumps the track, drafts or has fogged between the panes, tell us what it is doing, whether the frame is aluminum or vinyl, and whereabouts in Oakville you are. A photo of the bottom corner of the sliding panel helps us bring the right rollers.
Common questions about patio door repair
My patio door will not lock. Is that urgent?
If the house cannot be secured, yes. Call us, because a door that will not lock is an open door, and after a break-in we come out overnight to board it up. Often the cause is a keeper on the frame that has moved out of line, and a technician can adjust it in minutes. Sometimes it is a panel that has dropped, so the latch no longer reaches the keeper. Otherwise the lock mechanism itself has worn out and is replaced. In the meantime, a bar or a length of dowel laid in the track stops the panel from sliding.
Why is my sliding patio door so hard to open?
There are usually three causes, and you can check the first one yourself. Grit and debris in the track make the rollers climb over it, so vacuum the track and wipe it before anything else. If the door still drags, the rollers are worn or have been adjusted too low, and the panel is resting on the frame. If it only drags at one end, the frame or the house has settled and the panel is no longer square in the opening. Adjusting the rollers can deal with a small amount of that.
Do you repair patio screen doors?
No. We work on the patio door itself: its rollers, track, lock, handle, weatherstrip and glass. Re-screening and screen-door repairs are a separate trade, and a screen specialist will serve you better for those.
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