The steel service door between your garage and the house or yard — sagging, sticking, drafty, rusted at the bottom, won't lock, or no longer closes by itself? We repair and reseal garage entry (man) doors across Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley, including the self-closing fire door into your home.
The garage entry door — the standard steel "man door" or service door beside or behind the big overhead garage door — is one of the most used and least loved doors on the property. It takes the salt and slush off your boots, the swing of a loaded garbage can, and the full force of an Ottawa winter, and it's frequently the door that opens straight into your living space. So when it sags, sticks, drafts, rusts out at the bottom, or stops latching, it's both a comfort problem and a security and safety one. At Fix My Door Now Ottawa, garage service door repair is steady, year-round work across the region.
One quick clarification: this is the steel walk-through door, not the large overhead/sectional door the opener lifts. If your service door is binding, leaking heat, won't lock, or won't close on its own, that's squarely what we do. We diagnose the real cause — a dropped hinge, a corroded threshold, a worn sweep, a misaligned strike — and fix it so the door seals, latches and behaves the way a hard-working entry door should.
Steel service doors are heavy, and the hinges carry that weight through thousands of slams a year, so they loosen and the door drops. A dropped door rubs the frame, sticks at the top corner, and pushes its latch out of line with the strike. We reset or replace the hinges, drive long screws into solid framing to pull the door back up, realign it in the opening, and adjust the strike so it swings freely and latches with a click instead of a shove.
A garage entry door is often the draftiest door in the house — exposed, heavily used, and frequently neglected. Cold air pouring around it chills the garage and creeps into the home through the connecting door. We replace the perimeter weatherstripping and the bottom sweep, reset or replace the threshold, and realign the door so it seals tight against the frame. It's some of the best comfort-per-dollar work we do, and it ties straight into our weatherstripping service.
Road salt and melt water collect right where your steel door and frame meet the floor, and over the years they rust the bottom of the slab and corrode the jamb and threshold. Sometimes the bottom edge can be cleaned up, repaired and resealed; once a door has rusted through, replacement is the honest answer. We assess the door and frame, repair rotted wood jambs and the base where we can, and give you a straight repair-or-replace recommendation rather than papering over corrosion that will only spread.
A garage door is a real entry point to your home, and it deserves a lock that works. We repair, replace and rekey the deadbolts and handlesets on garage service doors, fix latches that miss the strike, and can key the garage door alike with your house locks so a single key opens both. If the door won't lock at all, we close that security gap the same day — see our lock repair service for the full range.
Garage door won't lock, won't close, or letting the cold pour in? It's both a security and an energy problem worth fixing fast. Call 613-265-3667 for flat-rate garage entry door repair across Ottawa & the Valley, or request a free quote online.
The door between an attached garage and the living space is, for good reason, normally required to be fire-rated and self-closing — it's a critical safety barrier. If yours no longer closes on its own, won't latch, or the seal has failed, it isn't doing its job. We repair or fit a self-closing device, restore the latch and seal, and make sure the door closes and catches every time, in line with our fire-rated door and door closer work.
When a steel service door is rusted out or damaged beyond a sensible repair, we supply and install a new insulated steel entry door — measured to fit your opening, hung true, sealed for Ottawa weather, and fire-rated where it opens into the home. You can read more about new doors on our door installation page.
Garage entry doors share problems with several other doors. These pages will help:
The door between your garage and home takes a beating from temperature swings. These guides cover the usual culprits:
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Ottawa winters are serious. We reseal doors to cut drafts, slash heating bills, and protect your home year-round.
Weatherstripping →Deadbolts and handlesets repaired, replaced and rekeyed — secure your garage entry and key it alike with the house.
Lock Repair →Drafty, leaking and rusted thresholds and sills adjusted, resealed and rebuilt to close the gap under the door.
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