Did the glass slider get replaced?

No. The security screen runs on its own track in front of the existing glass slider - the glass door is untouched. Day to day the glass stands open and the screen does the work, so the opening covers itself instead of being a bare pane of glass or a wide-open gap.

The frame here is white - is that a stock color?

It is one of the standard architectural colors, chosen to match the light window frames and the stucco. Frames are powder-coated, so the screen reads as part of the house rather than as security hardware bolted on afterward.

Does a screen this size still slide easily?

Yes - that is the standard we hold every install to. Stainless rollers are sized for the added weight of the mesh, and each install is squared and tuned by hand until it moves with one finger. If it drags, the job is not finished.

A Backyard Patio Slider That Opens All Summer Now

At a glance: a lattice-shaded back patio where the glass slider had nothing across it - open meant open to everything, so it mostly stayed shut. Daylight Steel added a sliding security door in a white powder-coat with woven 316 marine-grade stainless mesh, running on its own track and locking independently of the glass. Now the glass stands open and the screen covers the opening.

A bare white-framed sliding glass patio door with nothing across the opening, before a security screen was installed — Before - a glass slider and nothing else. Fresh air meant an unguarded opening, so it usually stayed closed.

The same patio opening fitted with a white-framed Daylight Steel sliding security screen in dark 316 stainless mesh — After - a sliding security screen on its own track, dark 316 mesh, the glass free to stand open behind it.

The setting

A back patio under a wood lattice, the kind of shaded outdoor room Southern California floor plans are built around. The opening to it was a plain glass slider with nothing on the outside track - which meant the only ways to use it were fully closed or fully open to the yard, insects and all. On warm evenings the glass mostly won, and the patio air stayed on the patio.

What we installed

A sliding security door sized to the opening, powder-coated white to match the existing frames, riding its own track alongside the glass. The panel is woven 316 marine-grade stainless mesh - the same marine-grade alloy we use on every product - on stainless rollers tuned by hand until the panel glides with one finger. It locks with its own latch, independent of the glass slider, so the opening can be secured with the glass wide open behind it.

The result

The glass door now spends the season open. Air moves from the patio into the house, the view across the yard stays clean through the fine mesh, and the opening stops being something anyone thinks about. It is the same trade every one of these installs is really about: keep the way the house wants to live, add the part that lets you actually live it.

Sliding security doors are published at a flat $2,675 installed for a standard patio opening, with multi-panel and oversize sliders quoted straight before the free measure - see the full pricing. The same 316 mesh goes into our window screens when a whole back wall of the house gets the open-air treatment at once.

The backyard slider that finally stays open

The setting

What we installed

The result

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