As you ease the handle or knob back into its starting position listen for the faint click of the latch sliding into the hole of the plate on the door frame.
How to open a sliding door quietly.
Then wash out the door guides and dry them.
When you hear that faint click you can remove your grip from the handle.
I cleaned half of the guides then opened the door and washed the other half.
Then lift the door up and out of the track laying it down carefully across two sawhorses.
If the hinges are on the left rotate the doorknob counterclockwise.
Place it on sawhorses.
Lift the door upward and outward to remove it from the tracks.
If you can gently push on the door and it does not move that means you have successfully closed the door quietly.
First use a vacuum to remove as much of the dirt as possible.
After you turn the doorknob press the door upward and then toward the hinges in rapid succession as you open the door.
If the hinges are on the right rotate the doorknob clockwise.
Grasp the sides of the door firmly.
Open the sliding door to the center.
Step 1 locate the window you want to open and unlock all mechanisms on the window.
Step 2 apply light even pressure on the window sill to open a window that slides vertically or horizontally.
After the guides are dry run a bar of paraffin over them.
Sliding doors are very heavy very breakable and very expensive this is a two person job.