Door Repair & Adjustment in Princeton, TX
A door that sticks, swings open on its own, or won't latch is a five-minute annoyance you live with for five years. We plane, shim, re-hang, and realign doors so they close with one finger. Interior, exterior, pantry, closet — same visit, same trip charge.
We also swap hardware, install deadbolts and smart locks, fix stripped hinge screws, and seal exterior doors against the Texas summer leaking into your utility bill.
What's Included
- Sticking and rubbing door correction
- Strike plate and latch realignment
- Hinge repair and stripped screw fixes
- Weatherstripping and door sweeps
- Deadbolt and smart lock installation
- Pocket and barn door adjustment
How a door repair & adjustment visit usually goes
- Diagnose the bind point. We run the door through its full swing and mark exactly where it drags, top corner, latch edge, or bottom sweep. The rub pattern tells us whether it's hinges, the frame, or a swollen slab.
- Reset before you cut. Nine times out of ten a longer hinge screw pulls the door back into the frame with no planing. We try the reversible fix first and only shave wood when the geometry demands it.
- Realign the latch and strike. We shift the strike plate or deepen the mortise so the latch catches on the first pull, no lifting or shouldering the door. Then the deadbolt gets checked to throw fully into the jamb.
- Seal and finish. On exterior doors we replace worn weatherstripping and the sweep, so conditioned air stops leaking and the door shuts with a solid seal instead of a gap you can see daylight through.
The back door off the kitchen and the door into the garage are the two that give Princeton homeowners the most grief. Both take heavy daily traffic and both sit where the slab flexes most, so they're first to bind when a dry August shrinks the clay. We adjust them to work through that seasonal swing rather than fixing them tight in one season and having them stick the next.
What shapes the price in Princeton
Door pricing comes down to what the fix actually involves. Realigning a strike or resetting hinges is quick, low-cost work. Planing and re-hanging a bound slab takes longer, and hanging a brand-new pre-hung or slab door into an existing opening is a bigger job with shimming and finish work. Hardware you supply, smart locks, deadbolts, handlesets, installs fast once alignment is right. Several sticking doors in one house is where bundling pays, since we're already set up with the same tools.
Straight Answers
Why do my doors stick in summer and swing free in winter?
North Texas clay swells when wet and shrinks in drought, and the frame moves with it. We adjust hinges, strike plates, and door edges to work through the seasonal swing instead of fighting it twice a year.
Can you install a smart lock on my existing door?
Yes. Most smart locks fit a standard bore, and we correct alignment first so the motor isn't grinding against a misaligned strike. Install, program, and test — usually under an hour per door.
My door won't latch unless I lift the handle. Fixable?
Completely, and usually fast. That's a sagged hinge or a strike plate that's a quarter-inch off. We reset the hinge with longer screws or move the strike, and the door clicks shut like it should.
Can you fix a sliding patio door that won't glide?
Usually yes. Most stuck sliders come down to dirty tracks, worn rollers, or rollers out of adjustment, all of which we service. We clean the track, replace the roller wheels if they're flat-spotted, and re-set the height so the door rolls with one hand. Badly bent frames are the exception we'll flag.
My builder's interior doors are hollow and dented. Replace or repair?
A shallow dent in a hollow-core door we can often fill and refinish so it disappears. A blown-through hole or a warped slab is cheaper to replace than to fake, and we'll swap it for a matching door and re-hang it square. We give you the honest call before spending your money.
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