Sliding door panel - need to secure outer panel (repost with photo and research already done)
We have a sliding glass door where the inner panel slides and has a lock. Unfortunately, I discovered recently that the outer panel only seemed secured. The previous owner had put some small sheet metal screws through a lip on the frame that overlaps the door. This worked well enough until one of the kids tried to slide that side and it yanked the screws out. Inner panel slides and has a lock; outer panel slides and isn’t secured in any way. So I’m trying to figure out a better solution to keep the outer panel fixed in place. There’s a lot of lock options out there, but the problem I’m seeing is that it’s the outermost panel that I need to secure, and it doesn’t look like there’s space to fit a lock (inner track and door frame get in the way). Any ideas? submitted by /u/rocrates [link] [comments]
| | We have a sliding glass door where the inner panel slides and has a lock. Unfortunately, I discovered recently that the outer panel only seemed secured. The previous owner had put some small sheet metal screws through a lip on the frame that overlaps the door. This worked well enough until one of the kids tried to slide that side and it yanked the screws out. Inner panel slides and has a lock; outer panel slides and isn’t secured in any way. So I’m trying to figure out a better solution to keep the outer panel fixed in place. There’s a lot of lock options out there, but the problem I’m seeing is that it’s the outermost panel that I need to secure, and it doesn’t look like there’s space to fit a lock (inner track and door frame get in the way). Any ideas? [link] [comments] |
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