Eau Claire Window Replacement provides professional patio sliding doors in Eau Claire, WI for residential and commercial properties across Eau Claire County and the Chippewa Valley. Patio doors got named directly in the old transfer standard. SPS 367.11 (2) (c) required them to be insulated, double-glazed or fitted with a storm door, which is why so many older Eau Claire decks still have a second door hung outside the first one.
Those add-on storm doors are worth a moment before you tear anything out. A patio storm over a single-glazed 1970s slider is doing genuine work, and if the primary door still latches and tracks, replacing both at once is the expensive version of the job rather than the necessary one. Pull the storm off for a week in October and you will know quickly whether it was doing anything.
When the primary door does need to go, the sill is the reason it needed to. A sliding door sill sits at deck level, which in this valley means it spends four months under snow that melts against a warm threshold every sunny afternoon and refreezes overnight. Water that gets under the track has nowhere to go.
So we set every patio door on a pan. A rigid sill pan with the back leg turned up and both ends dammed, lapped over the water-resistive barrier below and under the jamb flashing at the sides, so anything that gets past the track leaves the assembly instead of entering the rim joist. Rim-joist rot under a patio door is the most expensive repair on this page and it is entirely preventable.
The second detail is the deck itself. If the deck surface sits within an inch or two of the threshold, snow bridges straight across and the drainage plane never has a chance. Dropping the deck a step below the door, or leaving a drainage gap at the ledger, does more for a patio door in this climate than any glass package.
On the door itself, our preference here is a heavier roller assembly and a stainless or capped track rather than a bare aluminum one. Grit and salt from a winter's worth of boots destroy a soft track, and a door that has to be shoved is a door somebody stops closing all the way.
We are cautious about full-height glass on a north-facing deck. A big slider on that elevation gives you the least solar gain and the most exposure, and the room behind it often ends up with a cold zone nobody uses. A narrower door with a fixed panel beside it, or a hinged door with sidelights, frequently serves better.
If your existing slider drags, fogs at one panel and rattles, price three things before you price a replacement: rollers, track cap and a single sealed unit. On doors less than about twenty years old those three repairs often return the door to service for a fraction of the replacement, and that is the call we make out loud instead of reaching for the tape measure.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a box-frame double-hung with its counterweights still hanging in the jamb pocket, a triple-track aluminum combination storm and screen unit, old-growth pine sash stock milled before the mills closed, a pocket insert set inside the original blind stop, a tear-out that removes blind stop, frame and pockets together, a rigid sill pan with the ends dammed and the back leg turned up — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Eau Claire and nearby communities including Altoona, Chippewa Falls, Lake Hallie, Menomonie.
What We Handle
Everything our patio sliding doors in Eau Claire covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of patio sliding doors work in Eau Claire, WI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- replace sliding door with hinged
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- heavy duty patio door hardware
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Eau Claire services.
Materials, equipment and how we do patio sliding doors
The difference between patio sliding doors that lasts and patio sliding doors that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with a box-frame double-hung with its counterweights still hanging in the jamb pocket, a triple-track aluminum combination storm and screen unit, old-growth pine sash stock milled before the mills closed, a pocket insert set inside the original blind stop, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Eau Claire job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in Eau Claire County and the Chippewa Valley means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do patio sliding doors outside Eau Claire
Eau Claire Window Replacement covers Eau Claire and the surrounding communities of Eau Claire County and the Chippewa Valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Patio Sliding Doors in Altoona, WI — Eau Claire County, population 8,293
- Patio Sliding Doors in Chippewa Falls, WI — Chippewa County, population 14,731
- Patio Sliding Doors in Lake Hallie, WI — Chippewa County, population 7,170
- Patio Sliding Doors in Menomonie, WI — Dunn County, population 16,843
- Patio Sliding Doors in Bloomer, WI — Chippewa County, population 3,683
- Patio Sliding Doors in Augusta, WI — Eau Claire County, population 1,567
Start on the Eau Claire Window Replacement homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Eau Claire Chooses Eau Claire Window Replacement
- ✓We grade openings one at a time instead of averaging a house. Most Eau Claire quotes price twenty-two windows identically; ours shows which six actually need to go and what the rest need instead.
- ✓We know what the old rental weatherization standard put on these houses and how to read it. A triple-track storm bought to clear a 1998 closing is a thermal component, and we test it before recommending anything.
- ✓We repair storms, balances, rollers and weatherstrip as ordinary work rather than as a way of avoiding a sale. On roughly half the houses we survey, the correct answer costs a fraction of a replacement quote.
- ✓We install to the water. Sill pan with dammed ends under every unit, head flashing lapped by the drainage plane, low-expansion foam behind backer rod, and weeps demonstrated with water before the crew leaves your property.
The standards behind patio sliding doors
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The patio sliding doors work we do in Eau Claire follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every patio sliding doors project in Eau Claire gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free patio sliding doors free estimate in Eau Claire, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.