Sliding Security Doors

No - it runs on its own track alongside your existing slider, usually where a flimsy insect screen sits today. Your glass door is untouched. The security screen slides independently, so the glass can stand fully open all afternoon while the screen keeps the opening covered.

Better, usually. Stainless steel rollers are sized for the extra weight of the mesh, and every install is squared and tuned by hand. One-finger operation is the standard we hold every install to - if it drags, we haven't finished.

Yes - that is the everyday use. The screen locks independently of the glass with its own stainless latch, so the house stays wide open to the backyard air all evening with the screen doing the work.

A standard patio slider opening in Orange County is $2,675 installed. The price is flat and published, like all our pricing, and the written quote at your free measure matches it. Multi-panel and genuinely oversized sliders get a straight custom number before anyone visits.

Ours is not. A standard two-panel patio opening is $2,675 installed, flat, whichever way the panels run. Most published pricing in this category does scale with panel count, which is why slider figures elsewhere read as floors rather than prices: as of August 2026, Boss Security Screens publishes patio slider screens starting at $4,500 on its Orange County pricing page and starting at $5,800 on its national pricing page, both worded as depending on the number of panels, and its separate national cost guide quotes $4,500 to $5,000 for a two-panel sliding glass door with three and four-panel openings left to size. Our flat number covers the standard two-panel opening that most Orange County houses have. Three and four-panel walls of glass, corner stacking sets and pocketing sliders are real openings we build, and they are quoted individually before anyone visits rather than folded into the standard price.

Because we price the opening we build rather than the panel count, and because the slider is not a harder door for us to make than a hinged one. On our published list the slider is $2,675 and the hinged door is $2,475, a difference of $200, and the French pair is $4,475 because it is genuinely two panels with an astragal seal and matched locks. On the published brackets in the category the slider is usually the most expensive line rather than the second-cheapest. Three structural things account for the gap: one manufacturer system with no downgrade tier to upsell you off, our own install crew rather than subcontracted labor, and no commissioned in-home sales visit whose cost has to live somewhere in the number. What you should compare alongside the price is the terms. Ours carry a 10-year manufacturer powder-coating color warranty on mesh and panels; 1 year on hardware. Boss publishes a 15-year parts and labor warranty that transfers to a new homeowner plus its No Break-In Guarantee, which is longer coverage than ours and a real thing to weigh, and it has been installing since well before we opened in 2026.

A cut-to-length dowel or bar laid in the track, for a couple of dollars, and it is genuinely the right answer for some people. The full ladder with rough costs for every rung is in our sliding glass door cost guide. The short version: a track bar stops the panel sliding but does nothing about the panel being lifted off its track. Anti-lift screws driven into the upper track close that gap and cost nothing but a few minutes. A keyed pin lock through the frame does both, for tens of dollars. Security film makes the glass harder to break through but does not change the door itself. Every one of those is a lock, and all of them share the same limit: they only work with the door shut, so none of them lets you leave the slider open. A sliding security door is a different purchase, because it is the only option on the ladder that keeps the opening usable. If what you want is a cheap lock for a door you keep closed anyway, buy the dowel and skip us.

No, the mesh does both jobs. The security screen occupies the track your insect screen sits in today, and the woven 316 stainless is a finer weave than a standard fly screen, so bugs stay out on the same principle. You end up with one panel doing what two would, which is also why nobody has to remember to slide two things.

Usually, and the panel count is what changes the quote rather than the answer. A standard two-panel opening is the flat published price. Three and four-panel walls of glass, corner stacking sets and pocketing sliders are all real openings we measure, but they are quoted individually before any visit rather than squeezed into the standard number. Send rough dimensions and we will tell you which side of that line you are on.

Not necessarily, because the security slider runs on its own track and its own stainless rollers, not on the tired ones under your glass door. A worn glass-door track is a separate repair you can do whenever you like. What does matter is the condition of the frame the new track fastens to, and that is one of the things the measure checks.

Not from us, and the reason is worth knowing before you ask someone else. Cutting a pet door into the mesh voids the manufacturer warranty, so we do not retrofit them. If a pet flap is non-negotiable for that opening, we would rather tell you now than sell you a door and a void warranty in the same afternoon. The full policy, and the options people usually land on instead, are on our pet door page.