Door repair and installation in Rome, GA

Common door problems

• Won't latch without being pulled or lifted
• Drags on the jamb or the floor, sometimes only in certain weather
• Swings open or closed on its own
• A visible uneven gap down the closing edge
• Hinge screws that spin without biting
• An exterior door letting in daylight, draughts or water at the threshold
• A handle or deadbolt that binds, or a key that has to be jiggled
• Bifold and closet doors off their track
• A door that has been planed already and now has a gap but still won't latch

How the repair is done

1. Diagnose the gap, not the door

   The pattern of the gap around a closed door tells you what has moved. Tight at the top on the closing edge usually means the top hinge is pulling out. Tight at the bottom is often the frame or the floor. Reading that first is what stops a fifteen-minute fix becoming a new door.

2. Fix the hinge before touching the edge

   Loose top hinges are the most common cause of a sticking door, and stripped screw holes in the jamb are why. The repair is to give the screws fresh wood to bite into and longer screws that reach the framing behind the jamb, which frequently pulls the whole door back into line without removing any material.

3. Move the strike, not the door

   When the latch misses the plate by a small margin, adjusting the strike plate is a cleaner and more reversible fix than reshaping the door. Planing is a last resort, done only when the door genuinely is too large for the opening, and always with the edge re-sealed afterward.

4. New doors get shimmed square and checked

   A new door is only as good as the frame it hangs in. That means shimming plumb and square instead of following an out-of-true opening, and checking that it latches and swings correctly before the trim goes back on. Exterior doors also need their threshold and weatherstripping right, or you have installed a draft.

What drives the price

A sticking door and a new pre-hung unit sit at opposite ends of the same page, so the spread here is wide. What decides where your job lands:

• Adjustment versus rehanging versus full replacement
• Interior or exterior, since an outside door also has to weatherproof and lock
• Slab only, or a pre-hung unit including the frame
• Whether the opening is square, and whether the frame itself has moved or rotted
• Hardware: reusing yours, or supplying new locks and handles
• Whether trim has to come off and be refitted or replaced

Many sticking doors are a short visit rather than a replacement, so it is worth having one looked at before assuming you need a new door. Where a door has already been planed by somebody else, say so. It changes what the fix can be.

What to expect

1. Describe the symptom and when it happens: a door that only sticks in humid weather is a different diagnosis.

2. Photos of the gap around the closed door, and of the hinges, are genuinely useful.

3. Most repairs are a single short visit. Replacements need the door on site first.

4. We check it latches, swings and seals properly before we finish.

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Where we do this work

Door Repair & Installation across Rome, Floyd County and the towns around them across Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama, including 5 distinct parts of Rome, from Between the Rivers to the West Rome / Coosa side. That is Floyd County, Bartow County, Polk County, Gordon County, Chattooga County, Paulding County, Cherokee County, DeKalb County, Cobb County, Walker County, Haralson County and Cherokee County, anywhere inside about a 45-minute drive of Rome.

Town by town, that means Rome, Lindale, Adairsville, Cedartown, Summerville, Rockmart, Calhoun, Cartersville, Euharlee, Shannon, Cave Spring, Kingston, White, Emerson, Plainville, Resaca, Fairmount, Aragon, Trion, Lyerly, Menlo, Dallas, Centre, Cedar Bluff, Sand Rock, Gaylesville, Fort Payne, Mentone, Valley Head, Acworth, Kennesaw, Buchanan, LaFayette and Waleska. Smaller places in those counties are covered too. The full picture.