Sliding Screen Door Repair in Myrtle Beach

Sliding screen door repair in Myrtle Beach runs $75 to $150 for a rescreen, $60 to $120 for new rollers, and $200 to $450 for a replacement screen door built to your opening. Screen doors on the Grand Strand die from the same salt, sand, and use that kill the glass doors behind them, and they are cheap to put right. Send a photo of the screen door in its track and we will tell you whether it is a rescreen, a roller swap, or a new door.

What goes wrong with screen doors here

A sliding screen door is a light aluminum frame with a mesh panel held by a rubber spline, riding on small spring-loaded rollers in its own track outside the glass door. Everything about it is light, which is why it fails first.

• Torn or sagging mesh. Sun, salt, a dog, a kid, or a guest walking into it. Fiberglass mesh goes brittle after years of coastal sun.
• Worn rollers. The little wheels wear flat or the springs corrode, and the door drags, jumps, or falls out of the header.
• Bent frame. Someone forced it, or it blew off the track in a storm and got stepped on. Screen frames are thin and bend easily.
• Corroded corners. The corner keys that hold the frame together rust and the frame goes loose and out of square.
• Damaged track. The screen track is part of the sill assembly; pitted or bent screen tracks get fixed with the glass door track.

On oceanfront balconies from North Myrtle Beach to Garden City the frames and rollers corrode fastest. On the lanais of Carolina Forest, Market Common, and the Socastee neighborhoods, the usual call is a torn screen and rollers that have simply worn out over a decade of use.

Rescreen: $75 to $150

The old mesh and spline come out, the frame is squared and cleaned, new mesh is rolled in with new spline and trimmed. Options:

• Standard fiberglass mesh: the default. Fine, cheap, and good for years.
• Pet screen: heavy vinyl-coated polyester that resists claws. The right choice for any door a dog uses.
• No-see-um mesh: a finer weave for the marsh-side units in Murrells Inlet and Little River where the biting midges come through standard screen at dusk.
• Solar screen: a denser mesh that cuts sun on a west-facing lanai.

Rollers: $60 to $120

Screen door rollers are small, and there are dozens of housing styles. We carry the common ones and match the rest. The top rollers are spring-loaded to hold the door up in the header; the bottom rollers carry it. New rollers set to the right tension bring back a smooth slide and stop the door from jumping out.

New screen door: $200 to $450

When the frame is bent, cracked, or corroded through, we measure the opening and build or order a screen door to fit. Heavy-duty extruded aluminum frames hold up better than the roll-formed frames on builder-grade doors, and they take pet screen without bowing. For oceanfront units a heavier frame with stainless rollers is the sensible spec.

Pair it with the glass door

Nearly every screen door call comes with a glass door that also needs something, because they are the same age and get the same abuse. A screen rescreen on the same visit as a roller job or a lock replacement costs no extra service call. Tell us about the screen when you send the photo of the glass door.

How the visit goes

1. Look at the frame first. Square or bent, corners tight or loose, rollers present or missing. That decides rescreen, rollers, or replacement.
2. Pull the door. Screen doors lift out of the header once the top rollers are released. On a balcony with a header stop the stop comes off first.
3. Rollers. Old rollers out, new rollers matched to the housing and set to tension.
4. Rescreen. Old spline and mesh out, frame cleaned and squared, new mesh rolled in with new spline, trimmed flush. Pet, no-see-um, or solar mesh if you chose it.
5. Re-hang and adjust. Door back in the track, tension set so it stays up in the header, slides without dragging, and latches. Track cleaned and dry-lubricated.

A rescreen and roller job takes well under an hour per door. A replacement door is measured on the first visit and built or ordered to size, then hung on a second short visit.

Frames, brands, and the ones worth replacing

Builder-grade screen doors on Grand Strand condos and houses are roll-formed aluminum: thin, light, and easy to bend. They rescreen fine while the frame is straight. Once a corner key corrodes or the frame kinks, they are not worth straightening, and the honest advice is a new door. Extruded aluminum frames are heavier, hold pet screen without bowing, and stand up to the abuse a rental door takes. We match replacement doors to the common glass door brands on the coast, including PGT, CGI, Andersen, Pella, Milgard, and Jeld-Wen, so the screen rides in the track it was designed for rather than a universal frame wedged into the wrong channel.

Condo and rental screen doors

Screen doors in rental buildings on Ocean Boulevard, in Cherry Grove, and on the Garden City peninsula get torn, bent, and blown off tracks all summer. A manager with a list of units can have them rescreened or replaced building-wide on one visit, priced per door, and whether it is the owner’s cost or the association’s follows the master deed. We also carry no-see-um mesh for marsh-side units in Murrells Inlet and Little River, where the midges come through standard screen at dusk.

What it costs

The pricing page has the whole table.

Screen advice we would give a neighbor

Rinse the screen door and its track with fresh water after windy weeks, keep the sill track clear of sand, and lubricate the rollers with dry silicone only. If the door starts jumping the track, get the rollers done before someone yanks it and bends the frame. And if the dog has gone through it twice, stop buying fiberglass mesh. We repair screen doors across the Strand from Little River to Surfside Beach and inland to Conway.