This is a simple.
How to install a sliding fly screen door.
Installing a screen door to keep the bugs out can actually result in more challenges than you might think.
Install the new flyscreen mesh into the frame.
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Although there is more than one design for sliding patio screen doors the most common one employs a pair of rollers on the bottom of the door that fit on a track on the bottom of the frame.
Then using a hinge as a template drill pilot holes for the 3 hinges which will go on the opposite side of the door as the handle.
With your clean dry paint brush remove any built up dirt or debris in the sill tracks and jams.
Be careful to have extra hardware around especial.
The wheels are plastic and they stick or break causing the door to jam.
Then install the spline to hold the mesh in place.
These are high quality aluminium frames with wheels top and bottom to aid smooth and seemless operation.
When you open or close the door it doesn t actually slide.
Instead these wheels ride the track.
Installing your fly screen.
Place the fly screen blocks into the outer track roughly 50 millimeters away from either side.
Lift the screen up and lower it into the outer track on top of the fly screen blocks.