If you have a glass door that is slamming too fast all of a sudden, it is likely that it is time for a replacement of your floor-spring. Glass door floor-spring is a mechanism that allows for the glass door to swing back to its original position on its own in a controlled manner to the close position after the door is opened.
This is to prevent the glass from swinging back too fast and hitting onto someone. This is especially common in commercial units such as shopping malls and office. Overtime, the main culprit of defect is the oil seal. A crack in the seal would cause the oil to leak out which would require a replacement of the entire unit to resolve the issue.
The replacement of the spring can be done usually within 2 hours time frame and would involve the removal of the entire glass door. As such, for high traffic areas where such glass doors repair are usually involve, we would need help from the management for crowd control.
Samples of a floor spring being replaced:
When does your floor spring require replacement?
Typically when your door is closing very fast or what can be described as without control or when you see oil leaking our from it.
Another variation which we can see occasionally is the spring that is attached to the glass instead of being embedded into the floor.
As shown in the video. the spring itself is attach to the glass and the holder is on the floor.
Both serves the same purposes and that is to soft close the door. However, the one embedded into the floor is recommended for high usage area while the other, is meant for places where hacking the floor is not an option.
For more information on our door repair, you can call/whatsapp us at: 6280 4615 / 9100 6064
