I am an advanced DIY'er and ordered this 3 panel sliding glass wall/door and installed it myself. My experiences with Crystalia were interesting but first let me say right up front, I love this door! It looks great, has no frame around the sliding panels other than the outer frame of the whole thing and the quality of the materials are absolutely top notch!
But if your going to buy this sliding type of glass door and install it yourself there are a few things you need to know.
They make the doors custom per your dimensions. This is not a, "you buy it off the shelf, and install it like any other door", setup. Since they custom build it to your specific opening they require very precise measurements. And I mean precise like using a laser setup and deltas every 12 inches. I had all the tools and did provide all the detailed measurement but the frustrating part is I was in early stages of construction so I didn't have the opening finished to provide the measurement which delayed everything about a month. But I will say when they provided the door, the frame did fit pretty precisely so they do cut it to your specifications.
Since this is essentially panels of tempered glass with no frame, you get rails for the bottom of the panels that have rollers and adjusters on them that you have to install on the panels. This is not an easy task. There is a rubber gasket you have to wrap around the bottom edge of the panel first and then form the aluminum channel over it. It took a while to figure out how to get this done. Then you have to screw on the end caps to the roller rail and there are two different cap types. There are Zero - None - Nada - Instruction so you have to figure this out from watching their install video that has no words!!!! Yeah, I installed the wrong caps on the wrong doors and then had to remove all the doors again and change the caps. And the screw holes on the caps didn't all line up right so one screw got stuck. It was a mess. A set of INSTRUCTIONS would have been nice!
The Glass panels are heavy! (which they do warn you about before you receive them) I have professional glass suctions cups that were a life saver in moving the panels. I did the install by myself but if you have help things will be easier.
So with installing the frame and assembling the three glass door panels, and installing them, took pretty much the full day. I went slow and watched their video probably a dozen times as I went through each step as I didn't want to make any non reversible mistakes. Again, INSTRUCTIONS would have been nice!
In summary if you're buying this sliding door from Crystalia and having them install it then I would give it 5 stars as I am sure they can install it easily themselves. But if your installing it yourself or having your contractor install it, beware, this is not like a typical door install and will require figuring it all out and more time than you anticipate.
But as I said in the beginning, we LOVE the look of this door and the wide open view it provides and would absolutely buy it again. The quality is there and the cost was reasonable for a custom door. read more