On 10/2/2011 7:11 AM, Steven L. wrote:


"Harry K" wrote in message
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On Oct 1, 5:15 pm, "Steven L." wrote:
I've been noticing that there is a chilly draft seeping in at the
bottom
of the sliding glass door to my deck. The chilly air comes in between
the door and the track it rides on.

Obviously if I caulked it, I won't be able to slide open the door.

Is there anything I can do to reduce that draft? Attach something to
the bottom of the door perhaps?

-- Steven L.

That is why sliders should be banned. About the most asinine solution
to making an entry thorugh a wall. My wife insisted on one when I
built the addition 30 years ago. Quality Anderson, We fought it all
those years, chip, melt ice out of the track in winter, flimsy lock,
**** poor sealing (narrow strips of "fuzz"), etc. Last January as I
was going at the icy track with a gale blowing down my neck I swore
that that damn door was history as soon as the weather warmed up.
$1500 later it is history.

When I had a DirecTV dish installed on my deck, the technician ran the
cable from the dish through the space between the deck door and the
lower-right corner of the door frame, via a flat cable coupler.

But that proves how much space there is between the door and the frame.
The cable gets through--and so does the cold wind.




-- Steven L.



Huge improvements have been made in sliding doors over the years, just
like in windows. Thirty year old windows are totally junk compared to
the stuff today. About 6 years ago I put in a 5' Anderson slider in my
kitchen to replace the 30+ year old sliders. These new doors are very
tight. So, when doing, or re-doing the adjacent room, we again went for
Anderson, this time a 6' unit. Both were very good. Even the glass,
Low-E with Argon, was never very cold in the Chicago area winders. So,
when building a new house in NC, I, of course, wanted Anderson. Well,
Anderson has priced themselves out of the market. We went with a
cheaper door, and the results were that it was almost as good as the
"higher priced" one. It still had Low-E glass with Argon, but was less
than 1/2 the cost.