Storm-Ready Design Project
Installing Impact-Resistant Sliding Glass Doors VideoBob joins Scott Renfroe from Great Southern Windows for the installation of nine foot by eight foot sliding patio doors. Like the windows throughout the house, these are WinGuard impact-resistant glass doors from PGT Industries. The door opening, like the window bucks, has a pre-cast concrete lip that will prevent the door from blowing in and give it a firm seat for installation. An installer is laying a bed of mud or concrete mortar on the door sill to make a bed for the door frame. Renfroe explains that this helps set the door and also gives a soft bed to help level it. Once the frame has been set in the wet mortar and adjusted for level, temporary screws are installed in the frame so that Renfroe can check for plumb and begin to shim the gaps. He installs set screws, places the shims, drills through them, checks for plumb, then pre-drills and drives the permanent screws into the concrete walls. The frame will sit for at least a day while the mortar sets up because installing the heavy glass panels would compact the mud and disturb the level.
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| Bob is at PGT Industries in Venice, Florida, for a visit with Dave Olmstead, the code compliance officer for PGT Industries, makers of impact resistant windows. Olmstead explains how windows ...
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| Bob continues his tour of the PGT window factory in Venice, Florida. Dave Olmstead shows Bob a standard aluminum window with a thin, non-structural bead on the edge. He compares ...
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| Aaron Renfroe from Great Southern Windows installs the PGT WinGuard windows as Bob looks on. He first applies a thick bead of polyurethane caulk to the flange on the window ...
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Installing Impact-Resistant Sliding Glass Doors Bob joins Scott Renfroe from Great Southern Windows for the installation of nine foot by eight foot sliding patio doors. Like the windows throughout the house, these are WinGuard impact-resistant ...
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