Door Repair & Adjustment in Melissa, TX
When a house settles, the doors are usually the first to complain. A door that latched fine at closing starts to rub the frame, the deadbolt no longer lines up, or the whole thing drifts open on its own. It's almost never the door — it's the opening shifting around it, and it's a quick fix once you know what to adjust.
We rehang, plane, and shim as needed, reset hinges and strike plates, and get the gaps even top to bottom so it closes with an easy click. Interior, exterior, closet, patio slider — we'll have it swinging and latching the way it should.
What this covers
- Sticking and dragging door correction
- Hinge repair and screw-anchor reset
- Strike plate and latch alignment
- Deadbolt and handle set installation
- Weatherstripping and threshold adjustment
- Sliding and closet door realignment
- New interior door hanging
How a door repair & adjustment visit usually goes
Read the Reveal Around the Slab
The gap between door and frame tells the story. We sight along all four edges to see exactly where the opening has shifted, so we fix the true cause instead of just shaving symptoms.
Reset Hinges Into Real Framing
Builder hinge screws often bite only the jamb. We drive long screws through into the stud, which alone pulls many sagging doors back square without touching a plane or chisel.
Fit, Ease and Align the Hardware
Where wood still rubs we plane the precise contact point, then move or enlarge the strike so the latch and deadbolt land dead center and close without a shoulder check.
Seal and Prove the Swing
We refresh weatherstripping and the threshold sweep on exterior doors, then open and close the door a dozen ways — gently, firmly, from both sides — before we consider it done.
Exterior doors on the west and south faces of Melissa homes get the harshest treatment — full afternoon sun bakes the slab and frame while the shaded east side stays milder, so those doors drift out of alignment first and their weatherstripping cooks flat sooner. When we tune one, we check the sweep and seal too, since a daylight gap under a west-facing door costs you cooling all summer.
What shapes the price in Melissa
Door work in Melissa prices out by how far the opening has traveled. A latch realignment or hinge reset is a quick line on a bundled visit, while a badly racked exterior frame that needs shimming, planing and new weatherseal takes real bench time. Solid-core and eight-foot doors cost more to rehang than hollow interior slabs simply because of weight and fit tolerance. Doing several doors in one appointment is far cheaper per door, since the setup and tools are already out.
Neighbors often ask
Why won't my door latch anymore when it used to?
The frame shifted slightly as the house settled, so the latch and strike plate no longer meet. We realign them — and often the hinges too — so it closes cleanly again without you having to lean on it.
Can you fix a door that swings open by itself?
Yes. That usually means the frame is out of plumb, and we can correct the hinge angle so the door stays put wherever you leave it.
My double front doors won't line up with each other anymore — fixable?
Yes. Double entry doors are fussy because both slabs must meet at a common astragal, and seasonal movement shows up there first. We reset the fixed panel's flush bolts, adjust both sets of hinges and tune the strike so the pair closes evenly with one seal line.
Can you fix a pantry or barn door that jumped its track?
Absolutely. Sliding and barn-style doors usually fail at the rollers, the floor guide or a rail that's worked loose from the header. We re-secure the rail into framing, replace worn rollers and reset the guide so it glides quietly and stays on the track.
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