Patio Door Screens in Brossard

Patio doors in Brossard

We are based in Brossard, and the city alone carries two generations of patio doors. In the lettered sectors built between 1960 and 1985, the bungalow has its sliding door at the back of the dining room, at ground level or onto a small concrete patio; the split-level puts it on the living-room floor, with a wooden deck or balcony making up the difference in grade. Doors of that generation are aluminum with narrow frames, and many still carry their original screen panel. It has taken years of sun, its rollers are tired and its profile is no longer sold — but it is metal, it does not rot, and it can be rescreened.

Around Quartier DIX30 and the REM stations, the patio door becomes something else. It is PVC, in common sizes, and it opens onto a balcony rather than a yard: on the third floor, the eighth, sometimes higher. In the townhouses it opens onto a small fenced court or a terrace over the garage. These doors have few years on them, but they work hard: a condo balcony gets crossed several times a day in summer, and street dust kicked up by traffic settles in the track. The screen panel on a balcony door is also the only barrier between the apartment and the outdoors, and it catches wind like a sail.

What gives out on these doors in Brossard

In the older sectors, the roller is the weak link: on a narrow aluminum panel that is forty years old, it eventually seizes instead of rolling, and the door drags along the track until the bottom of the frame wears to a bevel. We identify the model and replace it, straighten the frame if needed, and rescreen in the same visit. In the newer condos the hardware holds up better, but the mesh fails in a different way: a balcony door several floors up takes gusts that stretch it loose, and the apartment cat, whose whole outdoors is that balcony, claws it on the way through. On these PVC doors the frame is rarely the problem; tougher mesh and a track cleared of street grit settle most cases. The latch, often plastic, gets replaced when it no longer holds the panel shut.

Access and constraints in Brossard

Brossard’s challenge is balcony height. Taking a patio screen panel out on the eighth floor is always done toward the inside of the unit, never over the railing: a light aluminum or PVC panel full of wind has no business above a street. It is laid on the living-room floor, rescreened there, and put back. In split-levels, the raised deck off the living room gives room to work, but the original door often has a panel taller than today’s sizes, and that has to be measured before anything is built. And where the building is a condominium, keeping the existing frame sidesteps any question about exterior appearance: nothing looks different from the parking lot.

Which mesh for your patio door in Brossard

On a Brossard condo balcony, the mesh question comes down to two things: the cat and the wind. An apartment cat spends its summer days at that door, and ordinary fibreglass does not survive it; pet-resistant mesh is the only kind that lasts. A few floors up, wind exposure justifies aluminum mesh, which is stiffer and holds its tension across a large panel. In the backyards of the older sectors, sheltered by mature trees, standard fibreglass does the job nicely and lets the air through.