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 man-door into the garage repaired or replaced — hinges, locks, and weather seals.
The garage entry door is the steel service door, sometimes called a man door, beside or behind the overhead garage door. It’s used constantly, takes salt, slush and winter weather, and often opens straight into the house. When it sags, sticks, lets in drafts, rusts at the bottom or stops latching, it affects comfort, security and safety. At Fix My Door Now Ottawa, we repair garage service doors year-round across the region.
Please note: this service is for the steel walk-through door, not the large overhead or sectional door the opener lifts. If your service door binds, leaks heat, won’t lock or won’t close on its own, we can help. We find the cause, whether it’s a dropped hinge, a corroded threshold, a worn sweep or a misaligned strike, and fix it so the door seals and latches properly.
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 properly.
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 an affordable way to make the garage and the rooms beside it more comfortable; see our weatherstripping service for more.
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 usually the better option. We assess the door and frame, repair rotted wood jambs and the base where we can, and give you a clear repair-or-replace recommendation rather than covering up corrosion that will keep spreading.
A garage service 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, 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 with proper lock repair.
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.
In a house, the door between an attached garage and the living space is generally required to be tight-fitting, weatherstripped to keep out exhaust fumes, and fitted with a self-closing device. A fire-rated door isn’t usually required for a single house, but rated doors and other requirements can apply in multi-unit and commercial buildings, so we check what’s installed. If your door no longer closes on its own, won’t latch, or its seals have failed, we repair or fit a self-closing device, restore the latch and weatherstripping, and make sure the door closes and latches every time. For more, see our fire-rated door and door closer services.
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 and sealed against the weather, with a self-closing device and weatherstripping where it opens into the house. Full door installation covers the slab, frame seals and hardware in one visit.
Note: This is about the steel man/service door between the garage and the house or yard — not the overhead sectional garage door. For overhead springs, openers, tracks and panels, we repair and replace those under garage door repair.
Garage entry doors share problems with weather seals, thresholds, locks and frames:
The door between your garage and home goes through big temperature swings, and sagging hinges and slamming closers are common problems:
Real door repairs, installations, and security work completed by our Ottawa and Ottawa Valley team.
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Lock repair and replacement across Ottawa and the Valley — deadbolts, knob sets, mortise, multipoint and smart locks fixed fast.
Door threshold and sill repair in Ottawa — drafty, leaking, worn and rotted thresholds, sill pans and sweeps fixed.
What Ottawa homeowners ask us most about repairing the steel service door at the garage.
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