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CWS Sliding & Patio Doors: The Palm Beach Owner’s Guide

We stock and install CWS-compatible sliding door parts across Palm Beach, and most roller and lock replacements run $180 to $485 installed depending on the series and whether we’re swapping one part or rebuilding the track. The call usually starts the same way: a door that used to glide with two fingers now takes a shoulder, or a latch that won’t catch, or a handle that turns without moving the lock. You’re not imagining it. Coastal air and sand work on CWS hardware faster than anyone expects, and by the time a Palm Beach homeowner notices, the roller assembly has usually been grinding for months.

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Key Takeaways:

• TruePane is an independent service provider, not affiliated with CWS. We work on their products because Palm Beach has thousands of them in service.
• Most CWS sliding door failures are rollers, then locks, then track wear. In that order.
• We carry CWS-pattern rollers, handles, and locksets on the truck for same-day swaps on most series.
• Free estimates, written line items, and both warranty layers registered before we leave your driveway.

Which CWS Models This Applies To

CWS built sliding and patio doors under several series names over the years, and the parts are not universally interchangeable. The three we service most in Palm Beach are the CWS 6000 and 7000 aluminum sliding door lines, plus the later impact-rated CWS 8260 and 8380 series installed heavily after the 2004-2006 building code changes. Each series uses a different roller housing diameter: the 6000 takes a 1-inch wheel, the 7000 and 8260 use a 1-1/4-inch wheel, and the 8380 runs a tandem roller assembly that looks like two small wheels set in a steel carriage. If you buy a generic 1-inch roller off a shelf and your door calls for the tandem, it will fit poorly, chew the track, and bind within a season.

Identifying your series matters more than measuring the glass. Look for a small white or silver label on the top edge of the sliding panel, or on the fixed panel’s side jamb. It will carry a four-digit series number plus a manufacturing date. If the label has faded off, remove the inner sliding panel’s bottom adjustment cap and pull one roller. The wheel diameter and housing shape tell us what we’re working with before we quote a number. On CWS doors specifically, we install OEM rollers where the housing is still intact, and quality aftermarket equivalents when the series is discontinued. The aftermarket pieces we use come from the same Florida suppliers who have been machining stainless housings and sealed bearings for coastal doors for decades. We will not put a steel roller assembly into a house within a mile of salt air. It rusts, it seizes, and you’re paying us twice.

Signs Your CWS Sliding & Patio Doors Is Failing

• The door drags or takes real effort to move. Roller wheels have worn flat on one side, or the bearings have seized from sand and humidity. Every month it drags, the track takes more damage.
• The door lifts or drops when you slide it. One roller assembly has collapsed or the adjustment screw has backed out. That uneven load twists the panel and eventually cracks the glass at the corner.
• The latch won’t catch, or the handle flops. The lock assembly’s spring has failed, or the hook has worn past its catch point. On coastal CWS doors this is usually salt corrosion inside the lockset body.
• The door makes a grinding or chirping sound in motion. Metal-on-metal wear inside a roller bearing, which we hear most often on Palm Beach doors with original 15-year-old brass wheels that were never stainless.
• The track is gouged or the door scuffs the bottom rail. Roller failure has gone unchecked long enough that the stainless or aluminum track profile has been torn. This is the most expensive version of the repair, and the one we see most when someone waited a year to call.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Installed pricing in Palm Beach for CWS sliding and patio door parts breaks down like this:

• Roller assembly replacement (per panel): $180 to $285, including both rollers, cleaning the track, and re-aligning the panel
• Handle and lockset replacement: $145 to $240, depending on the series and whether we’re matching an existing keyway
• Track repair or rebuilding in a recessed sill: $310 to $600, including grinding out the damaged section and setting the new track in sealant
• Full roller-and-track overhaul on a multi-panel door: $485 to $900, depending on panel count and access

The range exists because some CWS doors in Palm Beach have been maintained, and some have been left to the weather for two decades. The price you’re quoted is the price on the invoice. Dale Kessler set that rule when he founded this company in 2008, and we haven’t found a reason to change it. Every job includes the part, the labor, the adjustment, and cleanup, with both the manufacturer warranty layer and our workmanship guarantee registered in writing before the truck leaves.

DIY or Call Us?

You can safely check a few things yourself. Remove the door’s adjustment caps and see if the rollers turn or wobble. Look at the track edge for gouges. Try the lock with the door in three positions and watch where the hook lands. What we do not recommend is pulling the panel yourself. A CWS sliding glass panel in Palm Beach runs 80 to 140 pounds, and once it’s off the track, one wrong tilt sends it into the jamb, the floor, or your foot. Two people can do it. Most shouldn’t. If the door is binding, a hammer handle under the rail to “persuade” it will crack the frame at a corner weld. We have replaced panels for customers who learned that one in real time.

Call (850) 801-5596 when the door no longer moves the way a sliding door should. We’ll quote it over the phone, show up when we say, and fix it on the first visit in most cases.

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