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    Jun 25, 2007, 12:34 PM
    Reversing Sliding Door
    I am hoping to reverse/switch the glass panels of my glass sliding door to have the left side slide and the right stay fixed? Any tips?
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    Jun 25, 2007, 01:22 PM
    The only way I can see this working is to totally remove the door and frame and flip them. This unfortunately makes the inside surface now the outside. You can't make a fixed door into a slider.
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    Jun 25, 2007, 01:26 PM
    Can't Be Done, I One Door Will Stay Fixed, If You Try To Flip It, Ballanger Is Right The Outside Is Now In, Inside Is Out, Along With The Lock Being On The Outside, If Your Farly Handy A New Slider Isn't Hard To Install. And I Think They Run 299 Or So.
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    Sep 10, 2011, 07:47 AM
    Its easy with older metal frame doorwalls... in order to see if it is possible CAREFULLY and THOROUGHLY inspect the tracks.. if (and ONLY IF) they are continuous and uniform from end to end and the hardware (clip on fixed window and hasp on opening side) are exactly one half up the height of the frame... then the door is reversible and its easy. Just remove all three parts (screen, then fised, then slider from the outside (first remove the clip to the fixed pane). Then remove the hasp that the slider hooks to and simply rotate the panes 180 degrees leaving the inside/outside as they were and then reinstall from the outside... the slider first follewed by the fixed pane. Then reinstall the hardware on the new sides (may have to redrill holes if the frame is not symmetrically drilled) and Finally flip screen 180 degrees and readjust rollers... Boom... what was left is right and visa reversa. This works to my knowledge on old metal frame sliders... but many newer ones and wooden ones not so.
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    Sep 10, 2011, 09:50 AM
    OH.. a couple other things... first, if the slider has different hardware on top track vs bottom and has same hardware on lock on outside as inside than that panel just gets reversed (pivoted upright) outside to inside and don't flip it top to bottom like the fixed panel. The other point is that this post is specifically for a doorwall that can be reversed without any removal of the frames. In any other case just get a new doorwall installed. This method won't work.
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