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Originally Posted by iminhell1
To me it looks deeper than the track. Looks like water ingress below the pavers. If they have settled and water puddles at the door, that's no good. The door also looks to be mildly compromised, or about to become. Putting some caulk on the joints after a nice dry and warm few days wouldn't be a bad idea. If there is ever moisture between the panes, the frame is compromised.
TBH, it's not a bad idea to remove the doors and track to see what you actually have going on.
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That looks worse than it is, but everything is eventually compromised in the salt air. The caulk below the sill is about a year old (as is the house paint), all done before we bought it last summer. We’re catching up on deferred maintenance now.
That is a second story deck, with pavers. Sand joints which have washed out a bit with all my hose work around this door. Re-sanding them is on the list. There is very good drainage away from the doors, across the deck to the front and out/down.
And yes, eventually I’ll cave in and get a crew out to take those doors out. I’m worried about that not only because of the cost, but also any damage may be impossible to fix as these doors are out of production and the mfgr has few/no parts. I needed new exterior handles (cast aluminum) due to corrosion, and ended up stripping, epoxy filling and epoxy painting what I have. Because of the corrosion they aren’t as pretty as the interior handles (which match style), but they’ll do for now.
In the pictures you can see some staining and puckering on the corners of the doors, and bubbling elsewhere. This concerns me for the reasons above. I can grind out any surface issues and epoxy, etc. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to fix inside/structure damage without parts. So once I’ve committed to taking the doors out, the project has the potential to cascade quickly and expensively!