Entry door repair, exterior door repair and front door repair in Kanata: doors that stick, sag, draft or won’t lock, plus frames, thresholds, locks and weatherstripping.
We repair front, side and garage-entry doors on homes in Kanata. Tell us what’s wrong or send a photo for a free quote, and we’ll give you a flat-rate quote before starting the repair. Same-day emergency door repair is available. Call us to confirm the earliest appointment.
This is about entry, front, and exterior doors in Kanata. Sliding patio doors, interior doors, or a mixed call usually start under Door Repair Kanata. If your front door drags on the threshold, the handleset is loose, the multipoint lock won't throw, or cold air pours past the weatherstripping every January, you're in the right place. At Fix My Door Now Ottawa we treat the front entry as its own specialty, because it is the one door on the house that has to be secure, weathertight, and presentable all at once.
Need the same front, entry, or exterior residential door work elsewhere in the city? We also provide entry door repair across Ottawa.
The single most common entry-door call we get in Kanata is a front door that has dropped in its frame. Fiberglass and steel insulated doors are heavy, and over time the hinges loosen, the screws strip out of the jamb, and the slab settles toward the latch side. The first sign is usually cosmetic — an uneven reveal along the top edge — but it quickly becomes functional: the door catches on the threshold, the deadbolt no longer lines up with its strike, and you find yourself lifting the handle to get the latch to engage. A door you have to fight is a door that isn't sealing, and in Kanata that means a draft and a higher heating bill all winter.
We correct sagging entry doors by re-shimming and re-hanging the slab properly — replacing short hinge screws with long screws that reach the framing behind the jamb, re-aligning the hinges so the slab hangs square, and re-cutting or re-positioning the strike so the latch and deadbolt seat cleanly. On steel doors that have warped, and on fiberglass doors whose skin has separated from the core, we'll tell you honestly whether a repair will hold or whether the slab has reached the end of its life and is better replaced.
A lot of the mid-2000s and newer homes in Kanata Lakes and Morgan's Grant came with multipoint locking systems on the front entry — the kind where lifting the lever throws two or three bolts up and down the edge of the slab at once. These are excellent locks when they work and a real headache when they don't. The gearboxes wear, the lift handle stops engaging the upper and lower hooks, and homeowners end up relying on the deadbolt alone while the multipoint mechanism sits dead. On the simpler steel doors of Bridlewood and Beaverbrook, the failures are different but just as common: handlesets that have gone loose and wobbly at the rose, deadbolts that grind because the door has shifted, and latch springs that no longer return.
We service and replace both. For multipoint systems we identify the gearbox and strike profile, source the correct replacement mechanism, and re-set the keeps so all the hooks engage with the door pulled snug. For conventional hardware we tighten, rebuild, or swap out the handleset and deadbolt and — critically — upgrade the strike plate with long screws into solid framing, because on most builder-grade Kanata entries the original strike is held by two short screws that a single kick will tear out.
Front door problem in Kanata right now? Call 613-265-3667 for entry and exterior door repair from Beaverbrook to the Fernbank corridor — or request a free quote online.
The magnetic and compression weatherstripping tucked into the jamb of a steel or fiberglass door has a service life, and on older doors that material is often compressed flat, cracked, or pulling out of its kerf. The door-bottom sweep is usually worse — dragged across the threshold thousands of times, abraded by grit, and torn until daylight shows under the closed door. When you can feel the draft at your ankles in the front hall, the sweep and the bottom corner seals are usually the culprit.
We re-seal Kanata entry doors with weatherstripping and sweeps matched to the door, with fresh corner pads where the jamb seal meets the threshold, and an adjustable sweep set to ride the sill without binding when the door swells in humid weather. The goal is a clean, even seal all the way around so the front door stops costing you heat. For a deeper look at sealing systems, see our dedicated Weatherstripping Ottawa service.
Decorative glass is a defining feature of the Kanata front entry — the half-lite and three-quarter-lite inserts, the sidelites flanking the slab, the leaded and frosted panels that builders used to dress up an otherwise plain door. These are sealed insulated glass units, and like any IG unit they eventually fail: the seal breaks down, the inert gas escapes, and moisture condenses permanently between the panes, leaving the glass fogged, streaked, or visibly cracked after a hard freeze. A fogged door-lite is not a structural problem, but it makes the whole entry look tired, and a cracked one is a security and weather concern.
We replace failed door-lite and sidelite glass inserts on Kanata entry doors without replacing the whole door — measuring the existing frame kit, sourcing a matching insulated insert in the right size and style, and fitting it so the entry looks and seals as it should. It is a far smaller job than a full door replacement and it restores the appearance of the front of the house.
Many Kanata homes have an exterior-rated door connecting the garage to the living space — plus, on many homes, a side or mudroom entry off the driveway. These secondary exterior doors get heavy daily use and very little attention. The garage-to-house door is frequently the weakest exterior door on the property: loose hinges, no deadbolt or a token one, a latch that barely catches, and worn weatherstripping that lets cold garage air and exhaust into the house. Because most Kanata families come and go through the garage, this is the door that matters most for both security and air sealing — and the one homeowners think about least.
We repair and reinforce garage-to-house and side exterior doors across Kanata: re-hanging dropped slabs, fitting a proper deadbolt with a reinforced strike, replacing failed weatherstripping and sweeps, and confirming the door still closes and latches reliably for fire separation. It's a straightforward upgrade that quietly raises both the security and the comfort of the home.
Some original front doors have reached the end of their useful life: the fiberglass skin may have faded, steel slabs can rust along the bottom edge, and the hardware may be worn. When a homeowner calls us, our job is to give a straight answer: in many cases the entry can be brought back to full function for a fraction of replacement cost — re-hung, re-sealed, re-locked, re-glazed — and we'll do exactly that. When the slab itself is compromised beyond sensible repair, we'll say so and point you toward door installation rather than sell you a repair that won't last.
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What Kanata homeowners ask us about sagging, drafty and hard-to-lock entry doors.
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