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Our back deck has a very nice sliding glass door and sliding screen door (where "very nice" means "there's a few issues but none that have caused enough concern to get a professional to look at them," which is in fact the ultimate high bar in home ownership).
And ever since we moved in, the screen door especially has been a little hard to move. I watched some videos about ways to address the issue, which were mostly helpful in the sense of reassuring me that MANY people want to know why their sliding screen doors don't slide very well. (Some sliding screen doors are on little wheels in the track! Neat! Ours does not have little wheels. It apparently moves purely by willpower and luck.)
I saw a lot of recommendations for a WD-40 Gel Lubricant, which we applied a few times with varying effects. (aka it worked fantastically well for the first day or so, and then increasingly poorly as it got gummed up with all that outdoor stuff) It wasn't an ideal sensory experience, and then it was also a pain to clean out of the track again before reapplying.
ANYWAY I recently had the brilliant (haha time will tell) idea to try using silicone treadmill lubricant instead, which has no smell and is clear. The internet informed me I probably wasn't making a terrible mistake, though I may have gotten myself a demerit at work for looking up 'how to clean silicone lubricant' on my work computer. (I did quickly add the word 'treadmill' to the search, but by that point the damage had been done.)
IN CONCLUSION! It worked great on the inner door track, and so far I'd say has been more effective for longer on the outer screen door track than the WD-40. WHO KNEW??? I did not. But now I do! (Also it's only been like, a week. Long term results may vary, as they say.)
And ever since we moved in, the screen door especially has been a little hard to move. I watched some videos about ways to address the issue, which were mostly helpful in the sense of reassuring me that MANY people want to know why their sliding screen doors don't slide very well. (Some sliding screen doors are on little wheels in the track! Neat! Ours does not have little wheels. It apparently moves purely by willpower and luck.)
I saw a lot of recommendations for a WD-40 Gel Lubricant, which we applied a few times with varying effects. (aka it worked fantastically well for the first day or so, and then increasingly poorly as it got gummed up with all that outdoor stuff) It wasn't an ideal sensory experience, and then it was also a pain to clean out of the track again before reapplying.
ANYWAY I recently had the brilliant (haha time will tell) idea to try using silicone treadmill lubricant instead, which has no smell and is clear. The internet informed me I probably wasn't making a terrible mistake, though I may have gotten myself a demerit at work for looking up 'how to clean silicone lubricant' on my work computer. (I did quickly add the word 'treadmill' to the search, but by that point the damage had been done.)
IN CONCLUSION! It worked great on the inner door track, and so far I'd say has been more effective for longer on the outer screen door track than the WD-40. WHO KNEW??? I did not. But now I do! (Also it's only been like, a week. Long term results may vary, as they say.)