We repair front and exterior doors throughout Nepean, including doors that stick, sag, won’t latch or let in drafts. We check the hinges, frame, locking hardware and weatherstripping to find the problem and recommend the right repair.
Your front door does more work than any other door in your Nepean home. It’s used many times a day, takes the worst of the winter weather and is the first thing visitors see. When it starts to sag, drag, stick or let in a draft, it’s worth repairing properly. Front door repair is a large part of our work in Nepean, where many homes from the 1960s to the 1990s still have their original entry doors.
We serve all of Nepean, from Bells Corners and Centrepointe to Craig Henry, Tanglewood, Manordale, Crestview, Trend-Arlington and the Merivale area. Many homes here still have their original steel or wood front doors, and these can often be repaired rather than replaced. Same-day emergency door repair is available across Nepean; for other door repairs in the area, see Door Repair Nepean.
One of the most common front door problems is a door that no longer hangs square. A steel door can bow if its core and skin separate, and an older wood door can sag at the latch corner as the hinge screws loosen in the jamb. Either way, the door rubs the frame, the gap around it becomes uneven and the latch no longer lines up with the strike. We check whether the door itself has failed or whether the way it’s hung is the problem, then re-shim the hinges, drive long screws into the framing behind the jamb and adjust the door so it closes flush again.
Where the slab is genuinely spent — a steel door rusted through at the bottom rail or a wood door delaminated past saving — we’ll tell you plainly and quote a properly hung replacement through front door and entry door installation, but a large share of Nepean doors we’re called to don’t need replacing at all. They need a tradesperson to re-establish the geometry the door left the factory with.
The bottom of a front door takes the most wear from winter weather. On older steel doors we often find the bottom rail blistered and rusting from the inside out — meltwater wicks up behind a failed sweep, sits against the steel, and corrodes it from a spot no one ever inspects. The result is a rust line creeping up from the threshold and a draft you can feel along the floor every January. We address the front-entry draft at its real sources: a collapsed or hardened sweep, a door bottom that no longer meets the threshold because the slab has dropped, weatherstripping that compressed flat years ago, and a threshold whose adjustable cap has bottomed out. Sealing a front door properly depends as much on how the door meets its seals as on the seals themselves.
Front door problem in Nepean right now? Call 613-265-3667 for same-day front and main entry door repair from Bells Corners to Tanglewood — or request a free quote online.
A front door that needs a push with your hip to close is one of the most common problems we see. Often the cause is seasonal: the change from humid summers to dry, heated winters moves both the door and the frame, so a door that fits well in February can bind in July. A door that sticks all year, though, usually points to a hinge or frame problem rather than simple swelling: a top hinge pulling out of stripped screw holes, a jamb that has shifted as the house settled, or a latch and strike that no longer line up. We find the exact binding point with a feeler gauge and a straightedge rather than just planing the door down, because a door that’s been trimmed to fit a misaligned frame will rattle and leak once the frame moves back. We correct the alignment so the latch catches on its own and the door stays closed in the wind.
Front doors that get strong afternoon sun can fade and chalk over the years, and fibreglass or wood skins can develop fine surface cracks. If the door still works but looks worn, we can re-secure the hardware, adjust the fit, replace failed weatherstripping and refresh the entry. If you’d prefer a new door for better insulation or appearance, we’ll explain whether repair or replacement makes more sense. We install front doors in Nepean as well as repair them, and we’ll always quote the option that suits your door.
Many front entries in Nepean have a sidelight beside the door or a decorative glass insert in the door itself, and these are common failure points: a cracked sidelight pane from a stray ball or a freeze-stressed seal, a fogged insulated glass unit that has lost its argon and gone permanently hazy, or loose glazing stops that let the panel rattle. We re-glaze sidelights and front-door glass, replace blown sealed units, and re-secure decorative inserts so the entry looks and seals as it should. We also handle the hardware that a front door lives and dies by — failing deadbolts that turn with grit and resistance, worn handlesets that flop or no longer retract cleanly, and strike plates that have loosened until the door no longer locks with confidence. A front door that latches but doesn’t lock securely is a front door only half doing its job, and the deadbolt and strike are where we make sure it does the other half.
Related front-entry repairs we also handle in Nepean:
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Other door services we provide in Nepean.
Front, entry & exterior door repair in Ottawa — residential doors that won't close, rub, sag, or lock.
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Front door and entry door installation in Ottawa — steel, fibreglass and wood exterior doors hung plumb, sealed and weatherstripped for Ottawa winters.
Real door repairs, installations, and security work completed by our Ottawa and Ottawa Valley team.
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What Nepean homeowners ask about sagging, drafty and hard-to-lock front doors.
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