Patio screen door roller kitsThe patio screen door roller kits on this page are my attempt to provide two sets of rollers which will fit a great many types of screen doors. Most screen doors are held together by friction fit corners and the tension of the screen cloth itself. Over time the old rollformed screen doors get looser and looser. These corners themselves are often made of very thin die cast metal. If the door ever gets stuck and any amount of force is used to unstick it, the corners can break. Quite often the screen will get replaced but the broken corners will be left the way they are, and the result is that the door never works properly from that point on. If you have to take the screen out, it makes sense to take a little extra time to check all the rollers and corners and replace them if necessary. Many many screen doors use a corner that measures 1-1/8 inches x 13/32 inches to hold them together. The corners shown below are heavy duty and designed to replace many different types of corners of the same overall size. These corners are thicker and stronger than many of the ones they replace. They will help your screen door run properly for longer. Roller kit videoDimensions
The rollers can easily be removed and replaced without taking the frame apart. Just make sure you have a door that uses 1-1/8 inch corners, because these rollers are only made for that size of corner.
In some Anderson doors the opening for the roller may be slightly too far down, the opening may need to be widened by 1/4". This can be accomplished by grabbing the edge of the metal with pliers and levering out chunks of aluminum in 1/8" chunks. Or a file could be used to widen the opening enough to allow the new roller to be properly inserted. Patio door screen roller kit ordering instructionsYou can purchase the above rollers and corners as a kit, with 4 corners and 4 rollers suitable for completely rebuilding an old screen door. Just be sure that your door uses this size of roller.
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