Repairs & Maintenance

Door & Hinge Repairs

Doors that stick, drop, catch or will not latch — realigned, rehung or replaced.

A property professional carefully adjusting a solid timber door hinge

A door that sticks is rarely a door problem. Usually the hinges have worn or pulled, the frame has moved, or the floor covering has changed height. Planing the door is the quick answer and often the wrong one — once material is removed it cannot go back, and the gap reappears when the real cause is addressed.

We diagnose the cause first, then correct it: repacking or replacing hinges, repairing worn screw holes, easing the frame, or rehanging the door properly.

What’s included

Sticking, dropped and binding doors realigned
Hinge replacement and repair of worn screw holes
New internal doors hung, trimmed and finished
Latch, lock and handle replacement and adjustment
Door closers, seals and draught-proofing
Frame, architrave and stop-bead repairs

Typical jobs

Work of this kind we take on

Door catching on the frame after new flooring
Hinges pulled out of a hollow door or soft frame
Latch not engaging so the door swings open
Set of internal doors replaced throughout a flat
Bathroom door lock replaced and adjusted

What to expect

How we approach it

Diagnosis before adjustment: We find out whether the door, the hinges, the frame or the floor has moved, and correct that. Trimming the door is a last resort, not a first one.
Worn fixings made good: Stripped or enlarged screw holes are plugged and re-drilled so the new screws bite into solid timber rather than pulling out again.
Checked through the full swing: The door is tested open, closed and latched, and against the floor covering, before we finish.