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CGI Sliding & Patio Doors: The Fountainebleau Owner’s Guide

If you’re in Fountainebleau with a CGI sliding or patio door that’s sticking, leaking, or refusing to lock, we stock the rollers, tracks, handles, and lock assemblies that match most CGI models, and we install them for $185-$580 depending on the part and how much adjustment the frame needs. Most jobs are done the same visit. We’re an independent service company, not affiliated with CGI, which means we tell you straight whether a genuine OEM part or a quality aftermarket equivalent makes more sense for your door’s age and condition.

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Key Takeaways:

• CGI sliding doors fail most often at the rollers, the interlock/lock set, and the weatherstripping rail, in that order, here in Fountainebleau’s salt air and summer humidity.
• Parts alone run $40-$210. Installed, expect $185-$580. We give a written line-item price before any work starts.
• We stock common CGI roller assemblies and lock sets on the truck. Oddball series parts usually take 2-4 business days.
• Call (727) 620-6983 and a live person answers, any hour. No trip charge in our home county, and we’ll bring the parts with us.

Which CGI Models This Applies To

CGI’s sliding and patio door lineup spans several series, and the part compatibility is not universal across all of them. The main lines we see in Fountainebleau are the Estate Series, the Tribute Series, and the older Classic/Sentinel models that CGI produced before their current naming structure. Each uses different roller housing widths and different lock mortise depths. If you assume any CGI roller fits any CGI door, you’ll end up with a door that binds or a handle that won’t throw the deadbolt.

Here’s how to identify what you have: open the door and look at the top rail or the hinge-side jamb for a silver CGI sticker or an etched model designation. If the sticker is gone, which happens often after years of sun exposure on west-facing Fountainebleau homes, measure the roller housing width with a tape. Estate Series doors typically use a 1-1/4" tandem roller; Tribute doors often run a 7/8" single-wheel roller. That measurement gets us to the right part the first time, no guessing.

On the OEM versus aftermarket question, it depends on the part. Rollers: a quality aftermarket tandem with sealed stainless bearings usually outlasts the original and costs about 30% less. Locks and handles: those we recommend staying with genuine CGI. The tailpiece geometry on CGI mortise locksets is particular, and aftermarket lock sets frequently need the door redrilled, which weakens the stile. We’ll show you both options and a price for each before you decide.

Signs Your CGI Sliding & Patio Doors Is Failing

• The door drags or takes real muscle to move. This almost always means the roller wheels have flat-spotted or the bearings have seized. South Florida humidity pushes grit into the lower track, and once a bearing starts binding, it grinds itself down fast. Left alone, it will start chewing up the track itself, and that’s a bigger job.
• The handle turns but the latch won’t catch or the deadbolt won’t throw. On CGI doors, this is usually a worn tailpiece or a misaligned interlock at the meeting stile. The interlock system is the heart of a CGI impact door’s wind rating, so a lock that doesn’t engage cleanly isn’t just annoying, it’s compromising the door’s storm integrity.
• You feel air moving around the closed door or see daylight at the corners. The weatherstripping rails on CGI sliders are a consumable. After five to seven years in Fountainebleau’s heat, the pile weatherstripping compresses flat and loses its seal. Water intrusion during heavy summer downpours usually follows within a season or two.
• The door scrapes or squeals when you slide it. Sometimes this is just a dirty track, and we’ll tell you that over the phone before we ever schedule a visit. But if the noise comes with a grinding feel, the roller housing itself has likely cracked, and that means the door is riding metal-on-metal.
• The panel sits visibly crooked in the frame, lower on one side. This means the adjustable roller on one end has failed entirely or its screw has stripped. The panel’s weight is now riding on the aluminum stile instead of the wheels. Every slide grinds the frame down a little more.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

In Fountainebleau, you should budget $185-$580 for most CGI sliding and patio door part replacements, installed. A single roller assembly swap typically runs $185-$260. A full lock and handle set replacement, parts and labor, lands between $280-$480. Replacing both roller assemblies plus the weatherstripping rail on a large three-panel setup can push toward the top of that range.

Every quote includes the part or parts, our labor to install and adjust everything, a functional test of the lock and interlock, and cleanup. We don’t mark up parts by 200% like some repair companies do. You’ll see the part price on the invoice separately from the labor, and we honor that price before we start. If we find additional damage once the panel is off, we stop, show you what we found, and give you a new written number before doing anything else.

We back the workmanship on every CGI parts job. The Done Right Promise applies here the same as it does on a full door installation: if it’s not done right, Ed Winslow makes it right. That’s a lasting standard, and it’s real.

DIY or Call Us?

There are exactly two things worth doing yourself on a CGI slider: cleaning the lower track with a stiff brush and vacuum, and checking that the adjustment screw holes on the bottom edge of the panel aren’t stripped. If you can see flat spots on the wheels, if the door panel has to be lifted out to access the rollers, or if the lock involves the multi-point interlock system, call us. A full-size CGI impact sliding panel weighs 200-plus pounds. It can come out of the frame wrong and hurt someone, and setting it back in with correct alignment requires two people and experience with the interlock timing.

Most of our Fountainebleau customers have us do the full swap. It’s a 45-to-90-minute job for our techs, and it comes with a working door the same day. Call (727) 620-6983 and a live person picks up, no phone tree and no "we’ll call you back tomorrow." Ed’s name is on the door, literally. That means he answers for every job we do.

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