REMOVING YOUR OLD SLIDING GLASS DOOR
Last week I explained how to measure your existing sliding glass door so you can order the vinyl replacement door. This week I am going to go over the steps required to remove the old sliding door before installing the new door.First, you have to remove the sliding panel and the stationary panel. The vast majority of doors out there have the sliding panel on the inside half of the track, and the stationary panel is on the outside. Whatever the case in your particular door, the outside panel has to come out first. To remove the fixed panel, you need to remove the sill cap that snaps into the bottom track and runs from the fixed panel to the side jamb where the sliding panel locks.
Force a screwdriver into the crease and pry the cap up. Then, look for screws on the inside side jamb holding the fixed panel in place. These screws prevent someone from prying up the sill cap and pulling out the fixed panel in order to gain entry into the home. In addition to the side jamb, be sure to check across the top header and bottom track for screws there as well. Once all the screws have been removed, you need to pull the fixed panel away from the side jamb.
You can start by simply grabbing the side rail of the fixed panel and pulling as hard as you can. If you're lucky, the panel will pop free. Then you can lift the panel up as far as it will go into the top channel and swing the bottom away from the track, and remove the panel. Now, I said "if you're lucky", because in most cases the panel will be stuck in the side jamb, the bottom track, or both. Usually, you're going to have to use a pry bar to loosen the fixed panel before it will slide out of the side jamb.
Once the fixed panel is out, removal of the sliding panel is usually easier. Just lift up and swing the bottom away from the track, then remove the panel. Sometimes the bottom rollers will prevent the bottom from swinging out of the track. If that's the case, you will need to find the roller adjustment hole in the bottom corners of the sliding panel. Put a screwdriver into this hole and turn the screw counterclockwise to bring the roller as far up into the bottom of the sliding panel as possible.
This should allow the slider to come out.Now, you want to remove all the screws from the side jambs, top header, and bottom track. Then, take a pry bar and get it under the bottom track about in the center. Pry up until the track is separated from the floor. The next step will depend on whether your old frame is nailed to the house frame, or simply screwed in. If it's screwed in, then the frame should now be loose in the opening, since you removed all of the screws.
You just need to remove whatever inside trim there might be around the door frame. This type of frame should come out. If your door is nailed to the house frame, you will have to do a bit more work. Use a hacksaw to cut the track in half, approximately in the center. Start with either half and raise the cut piece up towards the side jamb until the the track piece separates from the side jamb.
Do the same thing to the other half.So, now you have to remove the side jambs. You want to do this without damaging the exterior material that surrounds the door frame. Take a heavy chisel and pound it into the crack between the frame and exterior material, whether it's stucco, siding, etc. Start at the bottom 6 inches first. What you are trying to do is pull the nail fin away from the nails holding it in place.
So, once the chisel is pounded through the metal frame, pry away from the side wall. The heavier and longer the chisel, the more leverage you will have. You will hear the frame "pop" free of the nail. There will be several nails holding each jamb in place, so you want to start at the bottom and work your way to the top corner. Once you get the bottom third loose, many times you can grab the jamb with both hands and pull the rest of the nails free as you go up.
When you get to the top corner, work the jamb free. Do both jambs, then do the top. Sometimes the top has no nails, or just one in the center, so it will come down pretty easily. Be sure to wear safety glasses and a dust mask when doing this job, especially when removing the top header.At this point you are ready to install the new door. The installation procedure is slightly different, depending on whether you're installing a retrofit style frame or a replacement frame.
We will discuss both procedures next week..
Dr. Antonio Prado of Tampa Among First to Use New Intraocular Lens for Cataract Patients
Tampa, FL (ContentDesk) March 9, 2006 -- A revolutionary advance in cataract surgery will be introduced this month by Dr. Antonio Prado of the Prado Vision & Lasik Center at 7522 N. Himes Avenue.AcrySof? ReSTOR? IOL is the first and only apodized diffractive intraocular lens (IOL) for cataract patients with and without presbyopia.
The AcrySof? ReSTOR? IOL, from Alcon, Inc., provides patients with a full range of quality vision (near, intermediate and distance), and greatly reduces reliance on glasses.In clinical trials, 80 percent of patients reported they no longer needed reading glasses or bifocals following bilateral cataract surgery.
Most patients who undergo cataract surgery receive monofocal lenses, which typically require them to use reading glasses or bifocals for near vision following surgery.
With the new AcrySof? ReSTOR? IOL, patients have the potential to reduce their reliance on glasses, said Dr. Prado.
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AmeriPlan USA? Offers Americans Opportunity, Financial Freedom and Affordable Healthcare Benefits
AmeriPlan USA?...is a Fee for Service plan to further reform the insurance problem in America. Millions of Americans are uninsured or under insured and cannot take care of their own health and their loved ones. This Plan works and helps with it's compensation system. The plan would reduce costs for individuals and families by 50 to 80 percent, while increasing their quality of health. AmeriPlan USA?...comes on top of the other pay for service plans.
Since 1992 they have grown their participants in the providers each year with outstanding efforts in the industry.We know that enabling price arranged costs for our members and lowering the cost of care is a proven way to create new hope for the individuals and families that have no medical insurance. Since 1992, we worked together with our provider participants of Dentist, Vision , Pharmacies and Chiropractors to achieve the highest care and savings.These discounted systems which have reduced costs for service by nearly 50 percent...
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Protecting Your Eyes from Sun-Rays
Summer's here and the beach beckons. You've detoxed, body brushed and moisturized your skin in excited anticipation. You plan your summer getaways and outdoor adventures, pull out your summer clothes, buy lots of sunscreen and slap it on ever so often. But this isn't where safety ends this summer. It is the potentially harmful Ultra Violet (UV) rays of the sun that you need to watch out for, which can damage the long-term health of your eyes (laboratory studies have shown UV radiation as a causal factor for cataract) and the delicate skin surrounding them.
UV radiation can play a contributory role in the development of various ocular disorder, including age-related cataract, pterygium, cancer of skin around eyelids and photokeratitis.
In fact, the eye may be at a greater risk from the sun than the skin. The skin has the capacity to adapt to UV radiation by producing melanin (tan) that protects against UV exposure. The eye does not develop a tolerance to UV rays...
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Ordinary Objects? Or Listening Devices?
Listening devices are among the most basic of spy and surveillance equipment. It is the first thing that any professional, amateur, or hobbyist should look into getting. There is a wide variety of listening devices. They range from the large-seeming constructs that are pointed at subjects up to 300 yards away and still pick up sound, to tiny RF transmitters that hide among telephone cords. But the most interesting bugging devices are those that look like ordinary, everyday objects.
They are fun to use and often lull unsuspecting subjects into a false sense of security, encouraging them to reveal information that they do not want you to have.
Listening devices that look like everyday items are especially helpful if you want to record a conversation you are having with someone, but don't want them to know you are recording it, or if you want to listen in on a conversation someone is having in another room (one that she or he would not have with you present). You can...
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Body Language: Improve Your Basic Interpersonal Communication Skill
Copyright 2006 Lyndsay Swinton
Why do jade dealers wear dark glasses? No this isn't the start to a bad joke, it's a serious question, with a telling answer. Jade dealers, and poker players alike, aim to hide what they're really thinking and saying by suppressing their body language. Unless wheeling and dealing is your game, it'd be wise to master the basic interpersonal communication skill of body language and be better understood.
93% of what you say remains unsaid
Stereotyping is short-hand decision making on whether you like someone and determines how you much effort you put into the conversation. Your hair colour, clothes, age, ethnicity and other features that don't change during a conversation, all add up to give an overall impression, which may be good or may be bad. The way you look speaks volumes - it's a communication skill in itself.
So, start conveying a favourable message by getting your image right.
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Oral Chelation ? What Can It Do For You? (Part 2)
Intravenous chelation therapy was more popular than oral chelation initially. It involved the injection of EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) that is an effective and widely studied chelating agent. But gradually, oral chelation scored over intravenous chelation. This is primarily because of the comparative cost involvements. While, intravenous chelation is definitely less expensive from bypass surgery or angioplasty, they are still costlier in comparison to oral chelation.
Then again, intravenous chelation involves painful process and runs the risks of infection and vascular intrusion.
They run the risk of incurring side effects like burning, redness and swelling at the place of injection, fever, fall of blood pressure, joint pain, rashes on skin, stomach upset, and irritation of the kidneys and liver occasionally. Oral chelation is as simple as taking one to two spoons full of doses, often based in honey or...
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Signature-Gems is About to Open, Offering Quality Amber Jewelry at Afforable Prices
(ContentDesk) May 5, 2006 -- http://www.signature-gems.com[Signature-gems] was founded with recognition that integrity and first class customer service is fundamental to our business. We believe in exceeding expectations, we have a passion for our jewelry and our values are the core of how we do business. These values are:* To offer only high quality gemstone jewelry at very competitive prices,* Protect our customer trust on every stage...
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New Book "412(i) Defined Benefit Pension Plans" by Nick Paleveda MBA J.D. LL.M to be Released October 15, 2005
(ContentDesk) August 25, 2005 -- The first book ever published on 412(i) plans is being released October 15, 2005. What is a 412(i) plan? If you know what a 401(k) plan is, the 412(i) plan is the defined benefit version of the 401(k) plan. This plan is meant for the baby boomers who have not saved enough for retirement. Congress in passing EGTRRA in 2001 has put the benefits back into defined benefit plans. These plans were widely used from 1974-1987 and now they are back.
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