Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair

Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair

We Guarantee Our Work! 22 Years In Business for Door Restoration, Refinishing, and Repair Services

Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair brings over 30 years of experience in residential and commercial wood door repair services and replacement for customers in Richmond Hill and the surrounding GTA. Our highly-trained, expert wood door repair specialists are trained to repair or replace any type of residential wood door, commercial wood door even your dog door! Our Services include exterior or interior doors, Our rebuild service for your wood door will get it working like new, guaranteed! Excellent warranties with all our work.

Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair can handle all types of wood door installation and repairs jobs, no matter what size. Whether you need wood door repairs or new wood door installations, we make sure every job is done with care and expertise, and completed on, time, and on budget. Our door services also include special work such as custom designed doors and odd sized doors to fit unusual spaces, or to give your home or business a unique appearance. Call Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair today for a free consultation and speak with one of our experts about your wood door repair needs. (647) 955-5637

Call the Best Wood Door Repair Experts Today!

Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair professionals are a group of expert wood door technicians who can help you make the best choice for your wooden garage doors. Our experts can repair, install, and even replace all materials and types of wood doors. Even if you need help selecting the best material for your wood door, our professionals can guide you according to your budget and preferences.

Remember — we service both residential and commercial garage doors and have just as much expertise and commitment to quality service for both, so be sure to call us whether you’re having wood door repair issues for your home or business.

We’ve Got a Fix For Your Wood Door!

• NEW FLOOR? We can adjust your existing door to add extra bottom clearance.

• DOOR STICKS? We will get it swinging again!

• UPGRADE YOUR LOCKS! We can replace your single or double-cylinder lock and in most cases, have it re-keyed to your existing one.

• HARDWARE LOST ITS LUSTER? Replace with state-of-the-art handle sets featuring a variety of lifetime finishes.

• WATER PENETRATION? We can replace old threshold and weather-stripping for watertight results.

• JAMB & FRAME REPAIRS? We will replace or repair your damaged frames. Complete jambs are also available for existing or new openings, and can be replaced when installing your beautiful new hardwood door!

• REFINISH: Let us restore the original beauty of your hardwood door.

Restore a Beautiful Finish to Your Wood Door

Refinish and Restoration Services

We offer reliable and long-lasting door restoration services including door staining, door refinishing, and door refurbishing. Our professional team is skillful in wood door refurbishing and wood door staining services. We are constantly training our technicians to be proficient in the door restoration services, so they are up-to-date on the latest technologies and techniques so you receive the utmost excellence in wood door restoration. In addition, we are a trusted brand for wood door sanding and finishing as well and hold competency in providing an exceptional finesse, worth your investment with us.

Bring back the beauty of your doors! Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair can make your dull, weathered doors look new again. In addition we can provide replacement hardware, weather-strip and glass repairs.

Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair uses only the finest available materials and craftsmanship to deliver the highest possible quality on every job. Our refinishing process brings your entry door back to life!

Our Step-by-Step Process – Wooden Doors Repair and Restoration Services

• Step 1 We carefully remove the door from hinges and replace it with a temporary non-operating door. The door is brought back to our shop where we then mask any glass and unaffected door edges.

  

• Step 2 Your old finish is stripped away using a commercial stripper and a good bit of elbow grease. After cleaning this away, we begin sanding the wood to remove the old stain. We hand detail all the moldings, edges, and corners. Any cracks and separations are filled. A stain and sealer is then applied. After the stain and sealer has dried, the first coat of finish is brushed on by hand.

• Step 3 The door is sanded with a fine grit sandpaper, wiped clean and the next coat of finish is applied.

• Step 4 After the final coat is dry, the door is lightly sanded, polished, and readied for re-installation.

We are wood door experts, we know everything there is to know about wood door repairs!

WE’RE HERE FOR YOU 24/7 (647) 955-5637

When you need your wood doors repaired, you can count on Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair. We have decades of experience and have worked with some of the biggest commercial and residential entities in the area. We are proud to serve Richmond Hill as well as the surrounding areas of the GTA.

Call us for wood door repairs that you can count on. However, if your door is beyond repair, we can also provide wood door installation as well. When it comes to wood doors are number one and we’re here for you! (647) 955-5637

Door Repair in Richmond Hill: Big Wood Doors, Big Loads

Richmond Hill has some of the largest residential entry doors in the GTA. Bayview Hill, Westbrook and the newer streets around Jefferson and Oak Ridges are full of double front doors, 8-foot slabs and tall arched transoms. The older homes around Mill Pond and the Yonge Street village core have smaller doors, but many are original solid wood. Both groups fail in their own way, and most of what we fix on wood doors in Richmond Hill comes down to weight and water.

Why tall wood doors sag

A solid wood or wood-faced 8-foot door is much heavier than a standard steel door. Builders often hung them on the same three hinges and short screws used on a normal door. After a few winters the top hinge pulls away from the jamb, the door drops on the latch side and the top corner starts rubbing. The usual repair is a fourth hinge or heavier ball-bearing hinges, long screws driven through into the framing, and a strike adjustment so the deadbolt throws cleanly again.

Double doors that will not line up

On a pair of doors, one leaf (the inactive one) is held by flush bolts at the top and bottom. When the bottom bolt hole in the sill wears or fills with grit, the inactive door creeps, the astragal no longer meets the active door and the lock stops engaging. Cleaning and re-setting the bolt keepers, replacing a worn astragal and adjusting the hinges usually brings the pair back together without replacing anything large.

Swelling in the shoulder seasons

Wood moves with humidity. A door that closes easily in January and binds in a damp June is telling you the finish has worn through on an edge, usually the top or bottom edge that nobody sees. Water gets into the end grain and the door swells. Planing it to fit is only half the job. The planed edges have to be sealed again, or the door keeps swelling.

Wooden Garage Door Repair in Richmond Hill

Wood carriage-style garage doors are common on larger Richmond Hill homes. They look great and they are heavy. The bottom section takes the most abuse: snow sits against it, salt splashes up from the driveway and the bottom rail rots from the inside out while the face still looks fine.

• Rot in the bottom section. Small soft spots can be cut out and filled with an epoxy repair, then primed and finished. If the rail is soft along its length, the section usually needs to be rebuilt or replaced.
• Loose hinges and roller brackets. Screws in wood sections strip out over time. They need larger fasteners, through-bolts or a wood repair before the hardware goes back on.
• Door no longer balanced. Repairing or replacing a wood section changes the door’s weight. The springs must then be adjusted by a technician. Spring work is dangerous, so please do not attempt it yourself.

We handle the wood repair and the mechanical side together. More on springs, openers and tracks is on our garage door repair page.

Exterior Wood Door Refinishing and Professional Door Painting

People who search for front door refinishing usually mean one of two jobs. One is keeping the natural wood look with stain and a clear exterior finish. The other is painting a wood door that has weathered past the point where stain will look good. The prep is what separates a finish that lasts from one that peels in two years.

What proper prep looks like

• Hardware off: handle set, deadbolt, knocker and kick plate, so the finish goes behind them and not around them.
• Failed finish removed down to sound material, not just scuffed. New coats over flaking finish will flake too.
• Grey, sun-damaged wood sanded back until it is fresh, so stain takes evenly.
• All six sides sealed when the door is off its hinges, including the top and bottom edges.

When paint is the better choice

If a door has deep weathering, old patches or mismatched replacement panels, stain will show every flaw. A quality exterior paint system hides repairs and handles sun better on a south or west facing entry. You lose the grain, but you gain a door that needs less upkeep. We will tell you honestly which way your door should go.

Custom Interior Doors in Richmond Hill

Interior wood doors are a different job from exterior ones. The common requests we get in Richmond Hill homes are:

• Replacing hollow core builder doors with solid core doors. Solid core doors block sound better and feel heavier in the hand. They often need a third hinge and a hinge-side adjustment to hang straight.
• Fitting doors to non-standard openings. Basements, older Mill Pond area homes and renovated spaces often have openings that are not stock sizes. A slab can be trimmed to fit, within limits, or ordered to size.
• French doors and double interior doors. Office and dining room pairs need careful hinge and bolt setup or they rub in the middle.
• Repair instead of replace. A door that rubs, will not latch or has a loose hinge is usually a short repair, not a new door.

For the general approach to repairing wood doors in any room, see our wood door repair service page.

Door Replacement and Door Installation in Richmond Hill

Restoration is our first suggestion for a good wood door. Sometimes it is not the right call. Replacement makes sense when the bottom rail and stiles are rotted through, when glued joints have failed in several places, or when the door has warped so far that it will not seal no matter how the hinges are set.

A common choice is a fiberglass door with a woodgrain finish. It can be stained to look close to wood, and it does not swell, split or rot. Steel is another option when security and price matter more than the look. If the frame is also soft at the bottom, it is better to replace the door and frame together than to hang a new slab in a failing jamb. Our Richmond Hill door frame replacement page explains how that works.

Measurement for replacement doors is free. You can read more about the installation side on our door installation page, and if you have aluminum storefront or glass doors at a business in town, see aluminum and glass door repair in Richmond Hill.

Before You Call About a Wood Door

A few details help us give you a useful answer on the first call to (647) 955-5637:

• Is the door exterior or interior, single or double, and roughly how tall?
• Does it stick all year, or only in humid weather?
• Is the wood soft anywhere when you press it with a screwdriver, especially at the bottom corners?
• A photo of the full door and one of the bottom edge and sill.

Our technicians are bonded, insured and police background-checked, with more than 22 years in the Canadian door trade. Estimates are free.

Richmond Hill Wood Door FAQ

Can you restore a wood door without taking it off site?

Many repairs, like hinge work, planing, joint repairs and small rot repairs, are done on site. Full refinishing goes best with the door off its hinges so every edge can be sealed. We will explain the options and how the opening stays secure while the work is done.

My wooden garage door has a soft bottom panel. Does the whole door need replacing?

Not usually. If the rot is limited to the bottom section, that section can often be repaired or replaced on its own. The springs then need to be rebalanced for the new weight.

Do you install new interior doors as well as repair them?

Yes. We fit new interior slabs and pre-hung doors, including solid core and French doors, and we repair existing ones that stick, rub or will not latch.

Do you cover all of Richmond Hill?

Yes, from Langstaff and Richvale in the south up through Mill Pond, Jefferson and Oak Ridges to the north end of town.

For wood door repair, refinishing or replacement in Richmond Hill, call (647) 955-5637 for a free estimate.

Door Repairs Richmond Hill

Doors like anything else wear with time usage and weather. Often all that is needed is some repair of moving parts and components of otherwise perfectly fine doors. Even if it may not be mechanically functioning correctly such as stuck, rubbing, or hitting the frame, the problem may not necessarily be the door or frame itself but of worn hinges, pivots, etc.

The closer may be leaking or the panic device may be past its cycle usage. Let us take a look and see what the culprit is and we’ll give you the most cost effective way of repairing your wood door. Rather than chucking the whole thing and starting over, this can get really pricey and really quick. Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair with new wood door hardware can bring those old doors back to new life and save some bucks in your pocket.

If your door has lost some functionality, don’t stress. You may have a part or component that can individually be replaced, saving you some money on a replacement. Our skilled specialists will make sure to properly assess your door and offer the best, long term and cost effective solution.

Please feel free to contact Richmond Hill Wood Door Repair at (647) 955-5637 to install, repair, and replace wood doors in Richmond Hill.