Door & window repair, statewide
Door Repair
Doors that stick in August, gap in January, or will not close at all
A door that drags, will not latch or has dropped in its frame is almost always a hardware or alignment problem rather than a door problem. We fix the cause instead of shaving the symptom off the edge of the slab.
A door is a system, and one part of it has failed
Before a door slab genuinely wears out, several other things fail first. Hinge screws lose their grip in the jamb. The frame shifts. The strike drifts out of line. The threshold wears down. The weatherstrip compresses flat and stops sealing.
Every one of those is repairable, usually in an hour or two, and for a small fraction of a new door plus installation.
Connecticut adds a complaint we hear constantly: doors that bind through a humid August and then show daylight around the edges in a heated January. That is wood doing exactly what wood does in this climate, and the answer is adjustment rather than replacement — a door planed down in summer leaves a bigger gap in winter.
A door planed down in August is a draughty door in January.
Every door in the house
Exterior and interior, modern and original, in every common material.
Older Connecticut homes often have doors that are not standard sizes at all, having been planed, shimmed and rehung by generations of owners. Those are exactly the doors that should be repaired rather than replaced.
What we repair on a door
The door, the frame around it and the hardware that moves it.
Sticking and binding doors
Diagnosed, adjusted, shimmed and rehung so the door closes cleanly without removing material unnecessarily.
Hinges and sagging slabs
Screws pulled loose from the jamb, worn hinges and doors that have dropped enough to catch on the floor or the strike.
Latch and strike alignment
When a door shifts, the latch stops meeting the strike. Realignment fixes what most people assume is a broken lock.
Weatherstripping and sweeps
Fresh seals and door bottoms, which given Connecticut energy costs is one of the highest-value small repairs there is.
Jambs, stops and thresholds
Split jambs repaired, stops refitted and worn thresholds reset so the door seals without dragging.
Closet, bifold and pocket doors
Off-track doors, broken guides and pivots, and panels that jam or will not stay closed.
What Connecticut does to doors
Humidity, heating and some of the oldest housing in the country.
Humid summers and dry heated winters
Connecticut swings from muggy August air to bone-dry heated interiors in January. Wooden doors and jambs take on moisture and give it back every year, which is why the same door binds in one season and rattles in another.
Very old housing stock
Connecticut has some of the oldest housing in the United States. Frames in these homes have been settling for a century or more, and openings are frequently out of square by a visible amount. Realignment is the fix; replacement often will not even fit.
Snow, ice and salt at the threshold
Meltwater running under a door and refreezing wrecks sweeps and sills, and tracked-in road salt is hard on thresholds and hardware finishes.
Why homeowners across the state call us
Carpentry and hardware in one visit, from people who only do doors and windows.
We fix the cause
Adjusting a door without addressing what moved just returns the problem next season.
Old houses handled properly
Out-of-square openings and non-standard doors are routine for us rather than a reason to quote a replacement.
Draughts taken seriously
A door that does not seal costs real money in a Connecticut winter.
Free estimates, firm prices
No charge to look, and the quote does not move once work starts.
Three steps, no runaround
Tell us what it is doing
Sticking at the top, dragging at the bottom, not latching — each points somewhere different.
We diagnose on site
Door, frame, hinges and threshold checked, then a firm price.
We repair it
Most alignment and hardware work is finished the same visit.
We are a mobile service covering the whole state. Pick your city below, or call and we will come to you.
Door Repair Across Connecticut
Door repair questions
My door sticks in summer and has a gap in winter.
That is wood responding to Connecticut's humidity swing. We adjust hinges and strike and ease the edges rather than planing material away, because a door planed in August leaves a bigger gap in January.
My house is from the 1800s and nothing is square. Can you still help?
Yes, and those are the doors most worth repairing. Openings in old Connecticut homes are routinely out of square, and a replacement door frequently will not fit them anyway.
Cold air comes in under my front door.
Either the sweep has worn flat or the threshold has dropped. Both are quick, inexpensive repairs with an immediate effect on comfort and heating costs.
Can you fix a door that will not lock?
Yes, and it is one of our most common calls. Usually the latch no longer meets the strike, which is alignment rather than a new lock.
How long does a door repair take?
Most hardware and alignment jobs run one to three hours. Anything needing a part ordered takes a short return visit.
Other repairs we handle
Doors and windows are all we do, so whatever has failed, it is probably on this list.