Door Repairs & Adjustments
Handis door repairs and adjustments is a one-visit, one-handyman service covering seven door-related trades — interior planing, hardware and lockset swaps, sliding and closet door tracks, screen and storm doors, door-perimeter weatherstripping, pet doors, and door stops — from $150 for a single interior planing to $900 for a wall-cut insulated pet door. The bedroom door that drags a quarter-inch arc into the carpet, the front door that takes a shoulder to latch in January, the bypass closet door off the track since spring, the screen door slamming shut on its own because the closer is shot. Doors are the most-used moving parts in a house and the most-ignored. We send one vetted handyman who carries planes, hinge shims, lockset templates, track kits, screen spline, weatherstripping rolls, and pet-door frames on the same truck — and works the whole door list in one visit.
Services
What Does Door Repairs & Adjustments Include?
Door repairs and adjustments is one residential trade split across seven service families — interior door planing, hardware and lockset replacement, sliding and closet door track repair, screen and storm doors, door-perimeter weatherstripping, pet door installation, and door stops — each one with its own diagnosis path and hardware kit on the truck. Interior doors drag because the frame settled, the hinges loosened, or the new flooring raised the threshold a half inch. Exterior doors fail to latch because the strike plate drifted with the season, or the lockset itself is worn. Sliding closet doors come off track when the rollers crack. Screens tear; storm-door closers blow out; weatherstripping goes hard at the door perimeter; pet doors and door stops are install jobs that pay back the second they are in place. The truck carries the right kit for all seven.
Interior Door Adjustment & Planing
Sticking, dragging, and refuse-to-latch interior doors. We diagnose the cause first — stripped hinge screws drop a door a quarter inch and look identical to a swollen door — and only plane material after the hinges, the strike, and the frame are ruled out. Trim from the bottom edge with a sharp hand plane or a low-angle block plane, never from the top or the latch side. From $150.
Interior Door Adjustment & Planing — sticking, dragging, re-hinge, plane
Door Hardware & Lockset Replacement
Knob and lever swaps, deadbolt installs, strike-plate realignment, smart-lock retrofits on the existing door prep. The latch must throw without forcing the door — a strike off by 1/16 inch turns a $25 lockset into a $200 service call when the rookie installer forces it. We mortise the strike, set the lockset to depth, and test the throw five times before packing up. From $150.
Door Hardware & Lockset Replacement — knobs, levers, deadbolts, strike
Sliding & Closet Door Track Repair
Bypass and bifold rollers crack, tracks bend when the door gets yanked off, and the bottom guide goes missing in every house with kids. We replace rollers in the common Stanley, Johnson, and Acme profiles on the truck, straighten or replace the track, and re-seat the door without scratching the panel face. From $180.
Sliding & Closet Door Track Repair — bypass, bifold, rollers, track re-align
Screen Door Repair & Replacement
Sliding patio screen panels torn or off the rollers, swing-out screen doors with broken hinges or chewed corners, storm-door closers that no longer hold the door at any opening angle. We re-screen with fiberglass mesh and a new spline, replace pneumatic closers (LCN, Wright Products, Ideal), and rehang the screen panel on fresh rollers. From $200.
Screen Door Repair & Replacement — sliding screens, storm-door closers
Door Weatherstripping & Threshold Replacement
The dark line of daylight you can see under the front door in January, the hardened V-strip at the jamb that has stopped touching the door, the bronze threshold worn smooth where every shoe has stepped for fifteen years. We replace door-perimeter kerf-in weatherstrip, install adjustable thresholds with new sweeps, and address the door-specific seal. Whole-home weatherization (attic-hatch, dryer-vent, garage seal) routes to the dedicated weatherization sub-hub. From $150.
Door Weatherstripping & Threshold Replacement — perimeter strip, sweeps, thresholds
Pet Door Installation
Through-door installs cut to the manufacturer template in solid-wood, hollow-core, fiberglass, and metal exterior doors. Through-wall installs frame a new opening, flash the exterior, and install an insulated tunnel kit (Endura Flap, Ideal Pet, PetSafe Extreme Weather). We sit the flap height for the actual pet — measured from the brisket, not the shoulder. From $300 for a through-door interior to $900 for an insulated wall cut. From $300.
Pet Door Installation — through-door, through-wall, insulated flap
Door Stop & Bumper Install
Wall stops anchored into a stud or a rated toggle (the spring-mount kind that bend the doorknob plate into the drywall are a do-over from day one), hinge-pin stops on interior doors, floor stops on tile or hardwood. A dollar of hardware saves a hundred dollars of drywall patch behind every doorknob in the house. From $150.
Door Stop & Bumper Install — wall, hinge, floor stops
Door Repairs & Adjustments Pricing
Final pricing depends on door type, hardware on hand, and how many doors fit into a single visit. Each service page lists detailed variant pricing. Multi-door visits are cheaper per door than booking each separately. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the door list — interior, exterior, closets, screens — and we will quote the visit.
Why Homeowners Book Handis for Door Repairs
Most door calls trace back to the same wrong assumption — the door itself is the problem. It rarely is. A door that drags is more often a stripped hinge screw, a sagged frame, or a strike plate that drifted with the season. A door that will not latch is almost never warped — it is a 1/16-inch misalignment between the latch and the mortise. After several thousand door visits across Seattle wood, fiberglass, and steel exterior doors, hollow-core interiors, and every closet system Stanley and Johnson ever sold, the diagnosis comes first and the plane comes last.
Diagnose before planing
Hinge screws stripped, frame racked, strike plate drifted, threshold raised by new flooring — four causes, one symptom (a door that drags). We check all four before the plane comes out, because material removed from a hollow-core door is never coming back.
Hardware on the truck for the seven systems you actually have
Common Stanley/Johnson bypass and bifold rollers, kerf-in weatherstrip in foam and rubber, brass and stainless strike plates, mortised and tubular deadbolt templates, screen spline in three diameters, fiberglass and aluminum screen mesh, hinge shims, longer-shank hinge screws, and Endura/Ideal pet-door templates. Picked from the booking call against what your doors actually are.
Strike before lockset, every time
A $25 lockset and a strike plate misaligned by 1/16 inch is a door that needs slamming to latch — and a year later, a door that will not latch at all because the lockset itself has worn from the forcing. We mortise the strike, test the throw five times, and only finalize the lockset when the latch falls into the strike under its own weight.
Pet doors sized to the pet, not the door
Manufacturer sizing tables go by shoulder height — but the right flap height is set from the brisket (the deepest part of the chest), and the flap width is set from the widest point of the body, not the head. We measure the pet on the booking call and choose the frame accordingly.
Insured, background-checked, 30-day workmanship guarantee
Every Handis handyman carries liability insurance and has cleared a background screening before the first job. If a door we adjusted starts dragging again, a lockset we installed binds, a screen we re-meshed pulls from the spline, or a pet door we cut leaks at the frame within 30 days because of our workmanship, we come back and fix it at no extra charge.
Estimate
List the doors, the rooms, and any specifics you know — door types (hollow-core, solid-wood, exterior steel, sliding patio), what each one does wrong, and any hardware on hand. We will send back a clear estimate for the full visit.
What Our Customers Say
Recent door-repair and adjustment reviews from verified customers.
New hardwood floor, four doors that suddenly would not close. The tech checked the hinges first — two of them had stripped screws and that alone was a quarter inch of drop. Fixed the screws with toothpicks-and-glue plugs, then a longer screw into fresh wood. Three doors closed without any planing at all. The fourth got a 1/8-inch shave off the bottom. Saved me a door I would have ruined.
Whole-home lockset and deadbolt swap — eight interior knobs to levers, three exterior deadbolts to smart locks, one front-door handleset upgrade. The tech mortised every strike, re-fit two doorframes where the previous installer had hacked the mortise, and walked me through pairing the smart locks to my phone before he left. Each lockset throws under its own weight. House feels new.
Two bifold closet doors in the master and one bypass door in the hall. Kids had pulled all three off the track and one bifold pivot was cracked. Tech had the right Stanley rollers and the right Johnson pivot on the truck — about 45 minutes for all three doors. He also showed me how to seat them back on the track if it happens again.
Sliding patio screen had a tear that ran the whole height and the rollers were shot. Tech pulled the panel, re-meshed with fiberglass and a new spline, swapped both bottom rollers for tandem ones rated for the panel weight, and lubricated the bottom track. Glides like new. He also caught that the door sweep on the slider itself had hardened and replaced that on the same visit.
Through-wall pet door for a 75-pound lab. The tech framed the opening with a header, flashed the exterior with peel-and-stick membrane, installed an Endura Flap large with the insulated tunnel, and trimmed the inside in matching baseboard. Dog walked through it the same afternoon. No drafts in January, six months later.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about door repairs and adjustments — pricing, scope, scheduling, and what to expect on the visit.