Interior door installation in DFW

What we do

Interior door installation and repair

Interior door installation across DFW, from our Coppell base. A door that binds is usually a house that moved.

Interior doors are hung to a frame that is itself hung to a house, and houses in this soil move. A door that used to swing and now catches is the visible end of that.

We look at the hinges, the frame and the strike before touching the door itself, because easing a slab to fit a frame that has racked only buys a season. The estimate says which of the two we are fixing.

Why an interior door stops shutting

Almost nothing inside a house is square, and a door is the thing that reports it.

An interior door swings on two or three hinges and latches into a strike plate in the jamb. Those two things have to agree with each other, and they only do while the frame stays where it was set. A house settles, a floor moves with the season, and the door that closed for years starts catching in one corner — usually the top corner on the latch side, which is the one that moves first.

The fixes follow the diagnosis and they are small. A hinge screw that has stripped its hole lets the whole leaf sag; a longer screw driven into the stud behind the jamb pulls it back. A strike plate that the latch now misses can be moved or filed. A slab that is genuinely binding on the frame gets planed at the edge that is touching, not all round.

Replacing the door is a different decision, and it is usually about what the door is rather than how it shuts: a hollow-core slab swapped for a solid one because of noise, a bifold that has never run well replaced with something hinged, or a set of doors changed because the house is being finished to one style. Whether a prehung unit or a slab suits depends on whether the frame that is there is worth keeping.

What it looks like

• The door catches at one corner, and only at one corner.
• The latch hits the strike plate instead of entering it.
• A hinge leaf standing proud, or a screw head no longer seated.
• A gap that is wide at the top and tight at the bottom, or the reverse.

Brands

Brands we install and repair.

We sell, install and repair interior doors of every major brand, not one maker’s line — the ones below included. If you have a door in mind, name it in the form; if you don’t, tell us about the opening.

• MasoniteCalden™ · Bayshore™ · DuraStyle Wood
• JELD-WENKarona™ Doors
• Steves & SonsMolded panel, wood panel and bifold doors

Describe it however makes sense to you

However you say it, that’s enough.

Tell us which window or door it is and what you want done, even if you don’t know what anything is called. This starts a conversation, not an appointment.

• However you describe it is enough. No part names needed.
• The written estimate is free. Nothing owed if you pass.
• Nothing is ordered or started until you approve the number.

Where the line is

What we don’t do.

Two things we don’t do, so you’re not left waiting on us: broken or fogged glass and insulated-glass units, and solar screens. Lock and latch work is the same — on a new unit we attach, adjust and test the latch the manufacturer supplied, and nothing beyond that.

Registered contractor — City of Coppell.

Questions people ask

Straight answers.

More answers on the questions page. Financing Available — how it works, in plain words.