All,
I was surprised to find little about this topic searching the internet, but as a first floor condo owner my upstairs neighbors drive me crazy with their opening and closing of their sliding glass door. My one neighbor directly above me smokes and every 10 minutes I hear their sliding glass door noise reverberating throughout my apartment. It almost sounds like somone dragging a wooden crate across pavement just above my head no matter where I am in the unit.
The harder/faster they open and close door the more noise it makes. I've asked them to do it slower and the one upstairs neighbor replaced the wheels on the door but it still makes that sound. I think the sound I hear is the friction from the heavy weight of the door being dragged. I also hear the unit above and to the right of my unit.
Are there any solutions to this? Any suggestions/ideas I can make to my neighbors? I am surprised sliding glass doors are so poorly designed as some type of system to stabilize the weight against the ground could counteract this and create a "smooth and quiet" sliding experience. I have not found anything like this in my searches.
Please help.
Annoyed in Florida...