Sliding glass doors
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dirtsurfer
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Urrgghh! I bought an expensive vinyl/fiberglass composite door & window system. The frames & glass are holding up beautifully but in 6 mos the hardware started rusting. Not sure if there is any best answer. I have a brand new stainless refrigerator bought in Mex and the stainless is rusting after 4 mos. It’s just life on the beach.
If you find a place down there, please post it. I had a sit down with Santana Glass last week and Sr. Santana says have them made up in the states and bring them down. They do installs and can fabricate aluminum but not vinyl. He works with Window Depot on the west side of Phoenix. The salt air is hell on everything.
brokenwave
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It's a mixed bag using Aluminum or Vinyl, I have Aluminum frames and I'm close to the water in Cholla.
My south facing frames after 22 years are starting to show signs of age and some corrosion from the sun, humidity and wind.
As Stuart said the resort sliding doors are hard to open,
The rollers in my South facing sliding doors need to be replaced every 5 years, which is the problem with many of the
sliding doors on the condo's on Sandy Beach. My old neighbor installed many of the doors and windows at the resorts and
did a booming business replacing the rollers on their sliding doors.
My neighbor had Jordan Vinyl doors and windows installed 15ish years ago and all of his sun ocean facing frames are falling apart from
the sun, wind and heat. The others are in better shape.
All of my doors and windows are Aluminum, Jordan brand which were considered good quality windows at the time.
(They went out of business in 2008 from the housing crisis)
I have Jordan brand Aluminum in my Phx house and all are in good shape (they are 17 years old).
This shows how different the environment is between Phx and Penasco's ocean front.
Living near the Ocean in areas like Penasco is hard on most everything because of the Wind, Sand, Sun, Humidity and earthquake tremors.
From May-Oct there is a constant wind flow from the SE which is hard on structures, because of that re-painting is needed
every 3-5 years vs the 7-10 in Phx. It doesn't matter which paint you use,
just being 1000 feet inland helps reduce the damage on my neighbors places.
My south facing frames after 22 years are starting to show signs of age and some corrosion from the sun, humidity and wind.
As Stuart said the resort sliding doors are hard to open,
The rollers in my South facing sliding doors need to be replaced every 5 years, which is the problem with many of the
sliding doors on the condo's on Sandy Beach. My old neighbor installed many of the doors and windows at the resorts and
did a booming business replacing the rollers on their sliding doors.
My neighbor had Jordan Vinyl doors and windows installed 15ish years ago and all of his sun ocean facing frames are falling apart from
the sun, wind and heat. The others are in better shape.
All of my doors and windows are Aluminum, Jordan brand which were considered good quality windows at the time.
(They went out of business in 2008 from the housing crisis)
I have Jordan brand Aluminum in my Phx house and all are in good shape (they are 17 years old).
This shows how different the environment is between Phx and Penasco's ocean front.
Living near the Ocean in areas like Penasco is hard on most everything because of the Wind, Sand, Sun, Humidity and earthquake tremors.
From May-Oct there is a constant wind flow from the SE which is hard on structures, because of that re-painting is needed
every 3-5 years vs the 7-10 in Phx. It doesn't matter which paint you use,
just being 1000 feet inland helps reduce the damage on my neighbors places.
brokenwave
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Humm, I bought a new Samsung SS fridge in Aug 2020 from the local RP Sam's Club. So far the fridge's SS isn't rusting. Iknow
it's cheaper SS because magnetic things stick to the doors. LOL But it was only $800 vs the Phx price of $1,400-1,500.
I have to replace my rollers every year. Put a vinyl garage door on 15 years ago. So far so good. BIG difference from the from front to the back there in terms of corrosion. The front gets a salt bath at high tide when its blowing like it does. The sea is much saltier than the Pacific due to evaporation and no fresh water coming in from the Colorado river. You certainly don't see that level of corrosion in San Diego or Florida
