First slide open the door completely and remove the head stop.
How to open a sliding glass door quietly.
Begin sliding the door closed by slowly pushing it away from you.
This will help minimize the noise output.
After the guides are dry run a bar of paraffin over them.
Use a small screwdriver or chisel to loosen any debris visible on the tracks of the sliding door before vacuuming the tracks and then scrub the tracks with a wire brush.
This may take a bit of maneuvering.
Open the sliding door to the center.
Then lift the door up and out of the track laying it down carefully across two sawhorses.
Lift the door upward and outward to remove it from the tracks.
You might be able to simply pull the locks open or you might require a key.
How to quiet sliding doors with paraffin.
Some models have a lock that connects to the door frame at the top bottom and sometimes both.
Make sure all locks are released before attempting to open the door.
Never leave the glass door unattended.
One of the easiest types of sliding doors that you can make use of in your home is a bypass door.
Look for a lock at the top or bottom of the door.
Grasp the sides of the door firmly.
Press the card away from the knob to apply greater pressure to the latch.
Place it on sawhorses.
A thief can literally be in your home 7 10 seconds and long gone with your stuff before police arrive.
First use a vacuum to remove as much of the dirt as possible.
Then wash out the door guides and dry them.
Spray lubricant along the tracks.
This level of patience is needed to close most doors quietly especially sliding car doors.
Bypass doors have fixed panels that are hung adjacently to each other.
I cleaned half of the guides then opened the door and washed the other half.
Tracks are placed both above and below the frame of the door.
Sliding doors are very heavy very breakable and very expensive this is a two person job.
Lever the latch with the card to disengage it and open the door.