I won t lie at first i was a little skeptical about doing it.
Oil to use for a sliding glass door.
Sliding glass doors use rollers to move along the track.
Finally add the 3 in 1 oil along the track.
Another popular method of lubricating and smoothing out a sliding door track is to simply spray a light mineral oil directly on the track and slide it back and forth until the lubricant has been fully distributed along the track.
A silicone based lubricant will be adequate and won t attract dirt.
Then slide the door all the way open vacuum the other side and scrape out the dirt and debris inside the track using a flat blade screwdriver.
However they can easily get dirty damaged or broken and cause your door to malfunction.
If you clean your sliding door tracks and rollers regularly choose a petroleum based lubricant.
Move the door back and forth like you did in step 1 to help the door glide over the oiled areas.
This teflon white lithium grease is manufactured by dupont and it is designed to be used both indoors and outdoors which means it may work suitably for your sliding glass door.
To quickly clean and lubricate a sliding glass door start by vacuuming 1 side of track while the door is still closed.
It is designed to have little to no odor which means that you can use it on the side of the house on your door without being overtaken by the smell.
One spraying later and i have been buying 3m ever since.
If the rollers are dirty you can try removing the door from the tracks cleaning the rollers and spraying them with a lubricant.
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.