To clean and lubricate the hardware of a sliding closet door use a stiff brush a toothbrush or a hand vacuum to clean dust from the tracks.
How to grease a sliding glass door.
If the rollers are dirty you can try removing the door from the tracks cleaning the rollers and spraying them with a lubricant.
A sliding door relies on an upper and lower track along with rollers that keep it in place to slide smoothly back and forth.
For wood tracks use a hard wax such as candle wax or beeswax.
Whatever you do don t use grease or an oil based lubricant which will attract more dirt.
Sliding glass doors use rollers to move along the track.
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.
Cleaning them once a week can help reduce the amount of built up dirt and grime and will make the door easier to maintain.
Dirty sliding glass door tracks can gum up your door and make it difficult to open and close.
You can also find specific door track lubricants at your local hardware store.
How to lubricate a sliding door.
How to lubricate a sliding glass door track.
Because sliding doors don t fold out the way bifold doors do they allow access to only half the width of the opening at a time.
If the track is gummed up with dirt.
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.
When a sliding door track gets gummed up and dirty it can make using the door a hassle and a pain.
However they can easily get dirty damaged or broken and cause your door to malfunction.
For vinyl door tracks use a non stick silicone lubricant.
Use an aerosol lubricant to lubricate all the door rollers.