Sliding Glass Door Repair in Conway

Sliding glass door repair in Conway runs on the same published ranges as the coast: rollers $175 to $350, track cap $150 to $300, locks and handles $100 to $300, fogged glass $350 to $900 per panel, screens from $75, and full replacements from $1,500. Conway is about 15 miles west of Myrtle Beach on US 501, and its doors fail the same way beach doors do, just a few years slower.

What Conway is

Conway is the Horry County seat and one of the oldest towns in South Carolina, laid out in 1732 as Kings Town, later Kingston, and renamed for General Robert Conway in 1883. It sits on the west bank of the Waccamaw River at 16 feet of elevation, about 14 miles from the ocean, and grew from 17,103 people in 2010 to 24,849 in 2020. The Conway Downtown Historic District is on the National Register, with a City Hall designed by Robert Mills, and the Riverwalk along the Waccamaw anchors a downtown of restaurants and shops. Coastal Carolina University, founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College and independent since 1993, sits on the east side of town and drives a large market of student rentals.

The housing runs from historic homes near downtown, to 1960s through 1980s ranches on the edges, to the subdivisions that have filled in along US 501 and SC 544 toward the coast. Most of the sliding doors we see in Conway are on the ranches and the newer subdivisions: standard 6-foot two-panel patio doors, aluminum on the older houses, vinyl on the newer ones.

What fails on Conway doors

Rollers. Inland or not, the steel bearings in a 30-year-old roller wear out, and a Conway door that drags is a roller job at the bottom of the range. Tracks here are usually worn by the rollers rather than pitted by salt, so a cap is sometimes optional; we tell you from the photo.

Screens. Conway lanais and porches face pine woods and the river, and the screen door gets more use than the glass door from spring to fall. Torn mesh, worn rollers, and bent frames are the daily call, and no-see-um mesh matters near the water. See the screen page.

Fogged glass. Conway’s humid subtropical climate is the same as the coast’s, and 1990s and 2000s insulated units fail on schedule. A new insulated unit goes into the existing panel; low-E is worth it on a west-facing lanai.

Locks and student rentals. Rental houses near the university go through locks and handles quickly. A mortise lock and keyed handle is a same-visit swap, and a foot bolt is cheap security on a ground-floor door.

Flooding, not surge

Conway’s storm problem is the river. The Waccamaw at Conway set a record crest of 17.9 feet after Hurricane Matthew in October 2016, then broke it at 22.1 feet on September 26, 2018 after Hurricane Florence, when homes in Conway took about 5 feet of water and a Socastee neighborhood downstream took as much as 8. A slider that sat in floodwater comes out of it with a track full of silt, corroded rollers, and often a lock that will not turn, but a frame that is square. Those doors are usually repairable: track cleaned or capped, rollers and lock replaced, weatherstrip renewed. Photograph everything before cleanup if insurance is involved.

Replacement and the code

Conway is far enough inland that most addresses fall outside the wind-borne debris region the 2021 South Carolina Residential Code defines, which turns on distance from the coastal mean high water line and the mapped design wind speed. That makes a standard non-impact replacement door the normal choice, at $1,500 to $4,000 for a two-panel unit. Inside city limits a replacement permit is checked with the city; in the unincorporated county around Conway, Horry County requires a permit for work that alters a structure, and doors are not on its exemption list. Repairs need no permit either way.

Getting a quote from Conway

Send a photo of the door and the bottom track and tell us what it does. Carolina Forest and the Socastee neighborhoods on the way from Myrtle Beach are covered on the same route. Numbers are on the pricing page, process questions on the FAQ, and the beach end of the route on the Myrtle Beach home page.