A door that rubs in June and swings loose by October isn't in your head — it's the Panhandle soil moving your frame with the seasons, plus decades of settling in the older brick homes around town. We plane, shim and re-hang doors so they close with a clean latch year-round, and we reset strike plates so the deadbolt throws without you having to lean a shoulder into it.
We handle the hardware end too: worn hinges, new knobs and levers, swapping tired builder locksets, and sealing exterior doors against the dust and the cold northers that come barreling down the plains once winter shows up.
The dust is the part people forget. Even a door that latches fine can leak fine grit onto the sill every windy week once the weatherstripping has gone hard and flat, and that same failed seal is what lets a cold front chill the entry and run up the heat bill. When we tune a sticking door we check the seal in the same pass, because a tight door keeps the Panhandle outside.
Simple adjustments — a hinge reset, a strike realignment, a new sweep — are quick and cheap. Cost climbs when the frame itself has racked and needs re-squaring, when a swollen exterior slab needs planing and refinishing, or when we rekey hardware across several doors. Solid-core and exterior doors are heavier and slower to hang than hollow interior doors. Older homes with settled, out-of-plumb frames take more fitting time. Batching every sticking door into one visit is the efficient way to handle it.
The clay under a lot of Amarillo slabs takes on moisture and swells, which subtly racks the door frame. It's common all over the Panhandle. We correct the fit and can point you toward watering habits that keep the soil — and your doors — steadier.
Yes. That's usually a strike plate knocked out of line by frame movement. We reposition or open up the strike, adjust the latch, and test the deadbolt until everything seats smooth.
We do — handlesets, deadbolts and smart locks. If you're moving up from builder-grade hardware, we can set the install up to rekey so all your doors run off one key.
Only partly, and we are careful. Plane an exterior door while it is swollen and it can rattle loose once it dries and shrinks back. We address the hinge set and frame first, plane conservatively if we must, and seal any bare wood we expose so it stops drinking moisture.
Yes. When we install or replace handlesets and deadbolts we rekey the cylinders to a single key, so the front, back and garage-entry doors all run off one. If you are keeping existing locks, we can often rekey those to match rather than buying all new hardware.
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