Vaughan Wood Door Repair

Vaughan Wood Door Repair

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

Vaughan Wood Door Repair brings over 30 years of experience in residential and commercial wood door repair services and replacement for customers in Vaughan 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.

Vaughan 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 Vaughan 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!

Vaughan 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! Vaughan Wood Door Repair can make your dull, weathered doors look new again. In addition we can provide replacement hardware, weather-strip and glass repairs.

Vaughan 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 Vaughan 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 Vaughan 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

Wood Door Restoration in Vaughan

Drive through Woodbridge or Kleinburg and you will see more solid wood entry doors than almost anywhere else in the GTA. Tall double doors in mahogany or oak, arched tops, carved panels and leaded glass are common on custom homes built from the 1980s onward. Maple, Vellore Village, Concord and the Vaughan side of Thornhill have their share too. These doors are expensive to replace and usually worth saving. Wood door restoration brings back the finish and fixes the structure, and it costs far less than a new custom door.

Restoration is not just a new coat of stain. A proper job looks at the wood, the joints, the glass, the frame and the hardware together, because a fresh finish on a door that still leaks or still swells will fail again in a season or two.

What Goes Wrong with Solid Wood Entry Doors

Finish failure

Exterior varnish and stain break down under ultraviolet light. South and west facing doors in Vaughan take full afternoon sun, and the finish goes chalky, cracks and peels, usually starting on the lower panels and the bottom rail. Once the finish is gone, bare wood turns grey and starts taking on water. This is the most common reason people call us, and caught early it is a refinishing job, nothing more.

Splits and checking

Wood moves with humidity. In winter the house is dry inside and wet outside, so a solid door is pulled two ways at once. Panels can split, glue joints open up and fine cracks called checking appear in the surface. Small splits can be glued, clamped and filled. Larger ones may need a panel or a section of stile replaced.

Rot at the bottom rail and frame

Water runs down the face of the door and sits on the bottom rail and sill. Over time the end grain soaks it up and rots from the inside. Push a screwdriver into the bottom corners of the door and the base of the jamb. If it sinks in, there is rot. Localized rot can be cut out and replaced with matching wood or an epoxy repair. Rot in the frame is covered on our door frame repair page.

Swelling, sticking and sagging

Heavy wood doors sag on their hinges, especially wide doors with large glass panels. A door that sticks only in summer is swelling at the edge, often because the top and bottom edges were never sealed. Rehanging with heavier hinges, longer screws into the framing and sealing all six sides of the door fixes both problems.

Leaking glass and leaded lites

Decorative glass in a wood door is held in with stops and glazing seal. When the seal dries out, water gets behind the glass and into the wood. We reseal or replace glazing and can replace a failed insulated unit.

Exterior Front Door Refinishing: How It Is Done Properly

A refinish that lasts follows a set order. Skipping steps is why many refinished doors look tired again after one winter.

• Remove the hardware. Handlesets, knockers and kick plates come off so the finish goes on evenly and seals behind them.
• Strip or sand back to sound wood. Failed finish has to come off completely in the weathered areas. Sanding over peeling varnish only traps the problem.
• Repair the wood. Fill checks, glue loose joints and replace rotted sections before any finish goes on.
• Brighten and even out the colour. Grey, sun-damaged wood is treated so new stain takes evenly with the protected areas.
• Stain and seal. Use an exterior grade finish with UV protection, in several thin coats, on the face, the edges and the top and bottom.
• Reinstall and adjust. Hardware goes back on, hinges are tightened and the door is checked for a clean close and seal.

Weather matters. Exterior finishes need dry days and moderate temperatures to cure, so most full refinishing in the GTA is done from late spring to early fall. Sometimes the door can be taken down and refinished off site, with a secure temporary closure in the opening.

Stain or Paint on a Wood Front Door?

Stain and clear finish

Stain shows off the grain, which is the point of a mahogany or oak door. The trade-off is maintenance. A clear exterior finish in full sun usually needs a light sand and a fresh top coat every couple of years to stay healthy. If you keep up with it, the door can last for decades.

Paint

Good exterior paint protects wood better than clear finish and needs less frequent attention, because the pigment blocks ultraviolet light. It is a sensible choice for a softwood door, a door with a lot of old filler or patches, or a door that will never be stained again. Once a wood door is painted, going back to stain means stripping it to bare wood, so decide carefully.

A storm door or overhang helps either way

A wood door under a deep porch roof can last generations. One fully exposed to weather will need more upkeep no matter what finish it has.

Door Repair in Woodbridge, Maple and Kleinburg

Woodbridge has a large number of custom and semi-custom homes with double wood entry doors, many of them with an arched transom. The common problem there is the active door sagging and the inactive door’s flush bolts no longer engaging, which leaves a gap between the two doors. We adjust or rehang the doors, reset the flush bolts and replace the astragal weatherstrip. Our Woodbridge door repair page has more on that area.

Kleinburg’s estate homes and the older village houses often have heavier, one-off doors made by a millwork shop. Parts for these cannot be ordered off a shelf, so repair is about careful woodwork rather than swapping components. Maple and Vellore Village are mostly 1990s and 2000s subdivisions, where wood doors are often a mix of solid wood slabs and wood-look fiberglass. We will tell you which you have before quoting.

For other door problems across the city, see our main Vaughan door repair page.

When Wood Door Replacement Makes More Sense

We restore wood doors whenever it is worth it. Replacement is the better choice when:

• Rot runs up through the stiles and rails, not just the bottom few inches.
• The door is badly warped and will not seal no matter how it is hung.
• The frame and sill are rotted along their full length and the door is not special enough to justify rebuilding everything around it.
• The cost of repair, glass and refinishing is approaching the cost of a new door.

If you want the look of wood with less upkeep, a fiberglass door with a woodgrain finish is the usual alternative. Our published starting prices are a front entry door from $999, a steel entrance door with glass insert from $1,199, and a fiberglass door with glass insert and design from $1,499, with free in-home measurement for replacements. Custom-sized double wood doors are quoted individually. See door installation in Vaughan for replacement options.

Vaughan Wood Door Repair FAQ

How do I know if my wood door can be restored?

If the wood is mostly firm and the door closes reasonably square, it can usually be restored. Soft spots, deep splits and warping are what we look at during the free estimate.

How often should an exterior wood door be refinished?

It depends on exposure. A door under a porch may go many years. A door in full sun usually needs a top coat every couple of years. Do it before the finish cracks through to bare wood.

Can you match the existing stain colour?

We can get close in most cases, and refinishing the whole door rather than patching one area gives the most even result.

Do you work on wood interior doors too?

Yes. We repair sticking, split and sagging interior wood doors as well. Our wood door repair page covers interior work.

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

For wood door repair and refinishing in Vaughan, call (647) 955-5637.

Door Repairs Vaughan

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. Vaughan 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 Vaughan Wood Door Repair at (647) 955-5637 to install, repair, and replace wood doors in Vaughan.