Slide Into Less Expensive Sliding Glass Door Track Repair

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How to Get the Right Price for Sliding Glass Door Track Repairs

Millions of homes across the US feature an inviting sliding glass door, often as the back door to your patio, yard, or balcony. A sliding glass door lets in floods of sunlight and provides a beautiful view during the day along with easy outdoor access. Unless, of course, the track is stuck. If your needs repair, you'll know it soon enough. A bent or damaged track will stop the door from sliding or make it difficult to open or close.

So, you need sliding door track repairs. But how do you get them, and how do you know which team (and quoted price) is the right one to choose? DoNotPay is here to simplify your next steps to make both easy and affordable.

What is the Average Cost of Sliding Glass Door Track Repairs?

Sliding Glass Door Track Costs (Average)

Extent of RepairCost
Low$75
Mid$150
High$250

Repairing or replacing your sliding glass door track is not nearly as expensive as replacing the doors themselves. Tracks get bent and damaged all the time, and there are several options for repair.

  1. First, your technician will try to clean the track properly, including removing the doors to clean the track underneath them.
  2. If your track is damaged but not bent, your technician may lay down a simple U-shaped cover piece to act as a new track over the damaged track.
  3. Bent tracks will need to be replaced; a process that could take a few hours to complete.
  4. Fully replacing sliding glass door tracks is the most time-consuming and expensive alternative.

Pricing Tips for Sliding Glass Door Tracks

  • One sliding door track costs about $20 - $100, depending on the design and model
  • Overhead rolling mounts are more expensive to repair than in-line glass door tracks
  • Replacing the doors is much more expensive than replacing the tracks

How to Avoid Excessive Sliding Door Track Repair Fees

Collecting quotes, you've no doubt heard about contractors inflating fees and exaggerating the cost of parts and labor. In fact, you might be suspicious if you get too wide a range of quotes from nearby contractors who handle glass door track repairs. This is an important suspicion; deception in terms of repair costs is all too common because technicians often assume that you feel like you don't have a choice but to accept whatever they quote.

But you do have a choice. Keep an eye out for signs of estimate padding and DoNotPay will help you spot padding when you see it.

Signs of Excessive Repair Fees

  1. Estimate significantly higher (or lower!) than other estimates
  2. Serious markup for the cost of parts
  • Sliding glass door tracks rarely cost more than $100 except for brand-name replacements
  1. Unnecessary Repairs
  • Watch out for repairs or replacements you didn't expect. This is a common tactic
  • Break-fixing in this case means breaking something in order to fix it
  1. Shop Fees
  • Unspecified and unlisted costs that could be straight inflation

The best way to avoid these overcharging tactics is to compare several quotes. It's easy to identify those teams not playing by the same rules when you can see the estimates of several local contractors for the same job.

How to Choose the Best Sliding Glass Door Track Estimate With DoNotPay

DoNotPay can help you sort through all the contractors, estimates, and itemized cost lists to find the best-priced repair service. If you need your sliding glass door track repaired, you don't have to settle for the first estimate you receive - or lose an entire day to calling contractors to compare estimates.

Instead, describe the repair you need to the DoNotPay repair system and we'll do the rest. DoNotPay can help you find the lowest repair quotes in your area and can help you identify any estimates that are likely inflated with known tactics. We'll help you find the right repair team without hours on the phone.

How to start saving on repairs with DoNotPay:

  1. Search for Quote My Repair on DoNotPay.

  2. Enter the details of the repair you need.

  3. Let DoNotPay find competitive rates for that repair in your area and any relevant information to keep you from being overcharged.

DoNotPay Can Help With Any Repair Quote

DoNotPay repair quote analysis works with almost any type of repair or service estimate in the US. Here are a few other types of repairs we can help with.

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