Insulating Around A Sliding Glass Door

When debris gets trapped in this track or on the wheels it can cause holes in the natural insulation of the sliding doors.

Insulating around a sliding glass door.

You ve installed patio link pet door insert and now its time to install a weather seal inside your glass sliding door. Remove the sliding doors from the tracks. It should extend beyond the side of the window and either be wide enough to cover the entire door or stop where the door starts and just cover the non opening part of it. To the masking tape i have four small strips of self sticking velcro.

Installing insulation over the stationary glass panel and weatherstripping between the insulation and the sliding glass door effectively seals the sliding glass door from the inside. The insulating panel should be cut to the appropriate measurement taken. When it gets really cold outside we have a piece of heavy duty clear plastic that we hang over our sliding glass door. To achieve the greatest efficiency i ve read that the insulation should be 1 from the glazing on the glass and by my measurements the glass panes do sit in the middle of our heavy 2 wooden door.

Glass or patio doors especially sliding glass doors lose much more heat than other types of doors because glass is a very poor insulator. Double glazed inserts can be installed to existing sliding doors. Watch this video to see how to do it. The panel should sit on the floor and extend above the top of the door frame.

The match to the velcro is on the woodwork of the door. Dirt gravel or other debris may prevent the door from sliding and sealing optimally. Insulated drapes blackout curtains or cellular blinds are just some of the products that can be used to reduce energy loss through your sliding glass doors. I cut it to fit the door and put a border of masking tape across the top of the plastic.

Measure the sliding window and determine the size of the insulating panel which should cover the top of the door frame down to the floor area. It should go over the window side and the size should be enough to cover the whole window. You will have to take the doors apart. The glass itself is a single pane so as you can imagine it isn t much of a barrier to cold air.

Replace existing curtains with insulating thermal curtains. Use a rag dipped in warm water to remove any dirt from the bottom of the wheels the window or the track. The sliding doors have small wheels on them that fit on a track in the unit.