Confident Home Remodelers

PATIO DOORS

Confident Home Remodelers is one of the leading installers of patio doors in our area. Whether you are simply replacing a worn-out sliding door that is too hard to open, or breaking the wall and framing a new header to create a new opening for a French Door or Patio door, we are the contractor for you.


Quality and door price vary more with patio doors than for any other home improvement. You can get a budget model in the $400’s (that you’ll replace in 5 years), and you can max out your budget for a wood Pella door that is over $6,000 (and then the wood will rot in 10 years or so). A higher end vinyl unit such as Okna has a far better Energy Star rating than Pella, it’s sturdy and strong, there is no wood to rot, and it’s a fraction of the cost. I say this with caution, knowing full well that a low-end vinyl patio door is problematic due to seal failure, the rollers, and structural reasons. Yes, all new vinyl patio doors are double-pane and tempered glass, but they are not the same. Hardware quality largely determines the life expectancy of a patio door.


A good door closes smoothly, and it locks easily and snuggly. For sliding doors, it’s well worth the small upcharge for stainless steel rollers. Always get the low-E Argon Energy Star package, and always get the key lock and the foot lock.

CONFIDENT HOME REMODELERS

Serving Northern New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley

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We can enlarge or reduce openings for larger or smaller doors, including patio doors.
 
Customers (and even most contractors) can't distinguish between all the caulks, silicones, and adhesives out there. There is ONE brand that is far superior to all the others for exterior applications, and it is not GE. This is a trade secret not to be revealed online. Also, Alex and Alex-Plus painter's caulk cannot be used for the exterior, even though it says so on the tube.
 
A $200 door is just as secure as the $2000 door. Same jamb, same problem. Even steel doors come with 3/4" wood jambs. Fire-rated doors use 5/4", a slight improvement. Give them a few points there.
 
The door manufacturers know this deficiency, but they deliberately keep the current design, hoping something happens and you'll need to buy another door from them. This is sort of like the business plan for toasters and calculators, which are built cheap and not-to-last so you need to buy another one. They don't care, it's money to them.
 
Most deadbolts locks come with long screws, supposedly to anchor into the framing, but the screws typically line up with the edge between the framing and the sheetrock, or less than 1/4" into the wood. Not much strength there either. We considered the idea of manufacturing a steel jamb protector, and we even designed a proto-type. Then came the epiphany. For almost every installation, there's at least a 3/4" gap between the framing and the door jamb. Where space permits (which is most doors), we cut a long strip of 1/2" or 3/4" plywood, and mount it to the back side of the jamb. Plywood is way stronger than pine, and almost impossible to splinter because of all the layers. If space permits, we'll do this on the hinge side as well. We also install with five (5) long exterior screws on each side of the door, with each one shimmed tight. 
 
Go with Confident Home Remodelers, and you can be "confident" that your door is secure.

We can enlarge or reduce openings for larger or smaller doors, including patio doors.
 
Customers (and even most contractors) can't distinguish between all the caulks, silicones, and adhesives out there. There is ONE brand that is far superior to all the others for exterior applications, and it is not GE. This is a trade secret not to be revealed online. Also, Alex and Alex-Plus painter's caulk cannot be used for the exterior, even though it says so on the tube.
 
A $200 door is just as secure as the $2000 door. Same jamb, same problem. Even steel doors come with 3/4" wood jambs. Fire-rated doors use 5/4", a slight improvement. Give them a few points there.
 
The door manufacturers know this deficiency, but they deliberately keep the current design, hoping something happens and you'll need to buy another door from them. This is sort of like the business plan for toasters and calculators, which are built cheap and not-to-last so you need to buy another one. They don't care, it's money to them.
 
Most deadbolts locks come with long screws, supposedly to anchor into the framing, but the screws typically line up with the edge between the framing and the sheetrock, or less than 1/4" into the wood. Not much strength there either. We considered the idea of manufacturing a steel jamb protector, and we even designed a proto-type. Then came the epiphany. For almost every installation, there's at least a 3/4" gap between the framing and the door jamb. Where space permits (which is most doors), we cut a long strip of 1/2" or 3/4" plywood, and mount it to the back side of the jamb. Plywood is way stronger than pine, and almost impossible to splinter because of all the layers. If space permits, we'll do this on the hinge side as well. We also install with five (5) long exterior screws on each side of the door, with each one shimmed tight. 
 
Go with Confident Home Remodelers, and you can be "confident" that your door is secure.

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