You should only use a silicone based lubricant.
Make a sliding door slide easier.
The cleaning and lubrication process is quick and easy to complete.
When a sliding door track gets gummed up and dirty it can make using the door a hassle and a pain.
This will actually help to move around the lubricant into the harder to reach middle area where the door is constantly sliding and experiencing the friction that makes it stick.
Sliding screen door repair.
Once the patio door track is nice and clean lubricate the track with a silicone based lubricant spraying and rolling the door back and forth to work in the lubricant.
Move the door back and forth like you did in step 1 to help the door glide over the oiled areas.
To fix this remove your door from the tracks clean out the rollers and spray them with a lubricant such as wd 40.
These rollers can become damaged dirty or broken as the years go by and cause your door to stick.
Clean up the track.
If the door becomes even harder to open turn the screw in the opposite direction.
Using something like the above to make your patio door slide easier might actually be counter productive.
On my door the holes had plastic plugs in them.
Turning this screw raises or lowers the roller.
Many folks will recommend you use wd 40.
One of the most common issues with sliding doors is a dirty track where dust pet hair and other debris can accumulate over time.
Give the screw a clockwise turn and test to see whether the door slides easier.
Most of the time the problem stems from dirty and dried up rollers.
Inside a standard sliding glass door there are adjustable rollers that help it slide back and forth on the track.
In order to prevent this from happening and becoming a problem it is important to not only get the track clean but also to lubricate the track so that it will slide easily.
Most sliding doors have a mechanism called an adjusting screw located at the bottom of the door ends.
A silicone based product will help the door glide without attracting dirt and grime like standard oil lubricants will.
There are holes on your sliding glass door that conceal the adjusting screws to these rollers.
So then how should you lubricate a sliding glass door.
Sliding doors move along the tracks using a set of rollers.