Sliding Glass Door Repair Pricing in Myrtle Beach

Sliding glass door repair in Myrtle Beach costs $175 to $350 for roller replacement, $150 to $300 for a stainless track cap, $100 to $300 for a lock or handle, $350 to $900 for a fogged insulated glass unit, and $1,500 to $4,000 for a full two-panel door replacement, with impact-rated doors at $3,000 to $6,000. The service and diagnostic call is $95 to $175 and is applied to the repair. Every figure on this page is a working range for the Grand Strand, and the rest of the page explains what puts your door at the bottom or the top.

We publish this because “free estimate” usually means a sales visit. A homeowner in Carolina Forest or a property manager with 40 balcony doors in a Cherry Grove tower should be able to sanity-check a bid against real numbers. Here is the market as we see it from Little River to Murrells Inlet.

The full price table

Rollers: $175 to $350 per door

This is the repair most doors on the coast need, and the one most worth doing. The range covers lifting the panel out, replacing both (or all four) rollers with stainless or sealed-bearing wheels, cleaning the track, re-hanging the panel, and adjusting height so it is plumb and the lock lines up. A standard 6-foot patio door on a ground-floor lanai in Forestbrook is the bottom of the range. A 300-pound oversized panel, or a balcony door on the twelfth floor with an exterior fixed panel that has to come out first, is the top. The roller page explains why the wheels fail and what we replace them with.

The track tax. Rollers that ran on a pitted track for years have usually chewed it. New wheels on a rough track wear out in a season, so many roller jobs get a track cap at the same visit. Budget the two together on an oceanfront door.

Track: $150 to $300 cap, $300 to $650 replacement

A stainless steel cap is a shaped cover that fits over the worn aluminum rail and gives the rollers a hard, smooth surface. It is the right fix for the great majority of pitted and flattened tracks and it is the reason a 1985 Surfside Beach low-rise door can be made to glide again without a new frame. Full replacement is for tracks that are bent, cracked, or so corroded the cap has nothing to grip. See track repair.

Locks and handles: $100 to $300

A seized mortise lock is a security problem, not just an annoyance, and in a rental it is a turnover emergency. The range covers the common 45-degree-keeper mortise lock, hook locks, handle sets, and keepers, with keyed exterior handles on condo doors at the top. Secondary security bars and foot bolts add $60 to $150. Details on the lock and handle page.

Glass: $350 to $900 per panel, impact $700 to $1,500

Fog between the panes is a failed seal in the insulated glass unit, and the fix is a new sealed unit in the existing panel, not a new door. The range follows size: a 3-foot-wide panel at the bottom, a 4-foot oversized panel at the top. Impact-rated units, laminated glass tested to the ASTM E1886 and E1996 large missile standard, run $700 to $1,500 per panel. The glass page covers when impact glass is required and when it is optional.

Full replacement: $1,500 to $4,000, or $3,000 to $6,000 impact

Replacement is the last resort, priced for a standard 6 to 8 foot two-panel unit including removal of the old frame, flashing, setting, foam, and trim. Impact-rated units for the coastal wind-borne debris region cost roughly double, and that is not upsell: the 2021 South Carolina Residential Code requires exterior glazing in that region to be impact-tested or protected by an approved covering. Three- and four-panel units, and openings that need the rough opening rebuilt, are quoted after measuring. The replacement page covers permits, which Horry County requires for work that alters a structure.

What moves the number

• Panel size and weight. A 100-pound 5-foot panel and a 300-pound 4-foot-wide oversized panel are different jobs. Weight sets the roller grade and the labor.
• Floor and access. Ground-floor lanai versus a balcony door 15 floors up in an Ocean Boulevard tower with a freight elevator schedule. Both are routine; the second costs more.
• Fixed panel position. When the fixed panel is on the outside and the slider on the inside, the slider usually lifts straight out. When the fixed panel is inside, or there is a header stop, it has to come out first. That is time.
• What is actually worn. Rollers alone is the bottom. Rollers plus a pitted track plus a seized lock on a door that has not been touched since it was installed is the top, and it is still far less than a new door.
• Salt exposure. Oceanfront doors, Cherry Grove to Garden City, fail earliest and hardest. Doors in Conway, roughly 14 miles inland, fail slower and often need only rollers.
• Multi-door visits. Condo associations and property managers get per-visit pricing for multiple doors in one building. The service call is charged once, not per door, and the per-door rate drops with volume.
• Storm damage. Racked frames and bent tracks after a hurricane are common on the Strand, and insurance covers sudden wind damage but not slow salt wear. Photograph the door with the date before anyone touches it.

Permits and licensing on the invoice

Repairs need no permit. A full replacement in unincorporated Horry County falls under the county’s rule that work altering or repairing a structure needs a permit under the 2021 codes, and its exemption list does not mention doors or windows. The permit fee, where one applies, is passed through at cost and shown on the quote. South Carolina registers Residential Specialty Contractors through LLR for trade work over $500 and licenses residential builders and glass and glazing contractors for larger work; ask any bidder for credentials and insurance before the panel comes out.

How to use these numbers

Send a photo of the whole door, a close-up of the bottom track, and tell us what the door does: drags, jumps, dropped, will not lock, fogged, cracked. Say which floor and whether the fixed panel is inside or outside. You get a number from this table, usually the same day. Compare bids by scope: a “roller job” that does not include re-hanging and adjusting the panel, or that leaves a pitted track under new wheels, is not cheaper. It is a repeat visit. Process questions are on the FAQ; who does the work is on the about page.