Recommended Gap At The Bottom For Glass Sliding Door

[bigbird 0]

Hi Bro and Sis,

Have built a glass sliding door of 236cm (H) x 256cm (L) for my study rm. However, now the sliding door is dropping down and the glass door has less than 1mm gap at the bottom, can't even slot more than 3pcs of A4 paper thru.... Worse still, the false ceiling that is used to mount the sliding door has crack lines now (believe it is due to the weight of the glass door.....)

The door has drop down abit once and scratches my laminated flooring. Although the contractor has fixed the problem but with less than 1mm gap, I am very sceptical that it will drop down again.

The contractor refuse to reduce the height of the glass door and insist that it will not drop again. However, the glass door supplier claims that the measurement of the height was taken without taking into consideration that there will be laminated flooring overlaying the ceramic tiles, thus creating only such a little gap.

Anyone knows the recommended gap for sliding door?

Pls advise!! Thanks!!

[bigbird 0]

Hi Bro and Sis,

Have built a glass sliding door of 236cm (H) x 256cm (L) for my study rm. However, now the sliding door is dropping down and the glass door has less than 1mm gap at the bottom, can't even slot more than 3pcs of A4 paper thru.... Worse still, the false ceiling that is used to mount the sliding door has crack lines now (believe it is due to the weight of the glass door.....)

The door has drop down abit once and scratches my laminated flooring. Although the contractor has fixed the problem but with less than 1mm gap, I am very sceptical that it will drop down again.

The contractor refuse to reduce the height of the glass door and insist that it will not drop again. However, the glass door supplier claims that the measurement of the height was taken without taking into consideration that there will be laminated flooring overlaying the ceramic tiles, thus creating only such a little gap.

Anyone knows the recommended gap for sliding door?

Pls advise!! Thanks!!

Hi,

Just an update. Finally got the answer for my own questions !!

1) The recommended gap is 5 - 10mm. (Checked with a couple of the suppliers)

2) The false ceiling definitely need to be re-inforced with metal support. The normal false ceiling won't work cos the glass is easily 50 - 100kg

[applefreak 1]

hi bigbird thanks for sharing

have you gotten your contractor to rectify the problem?

[renonoob 0]

scratch laminate floor small matter...

drop and injured someone big matter...