Door Repairs in Earlsfield

A door that does not close properly is a door that does not lock properly. It might feel like a minor annoyance now, but a front door that needs lifting, shoving or slamming to latch is a door that will eventually fail to lock at all, usually at the worst possible time.

Earlsfield has a real mix of housing stock, and each type brings its own set of door problems. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces along Earlsfield Road, Magdalen Road and the streets off Garratt Lane tend to have solid timber doors that swell with moisture, shrink in dry weather, and gradually pull away from frames that have shifted over a hundred years. The purpose-built flats on the Henry Prince Estate and the newer developments off Burntwood Lane are more likely to have uPVC or composite doors where the mechanisms wear out or the doors drop on their hinges. We have worked on all of them.

Common door problems we fix

Most door problems fall into a handful of categories. The door itself may have warped, swollen or been physically damaged. The frame may have shifted, split or rotted. The hinges may have pulled loose or worn. Or the relationship between the door, the frame and the lock has just drifted out of alignment over time. Specifically, we deal with:

• Doors that catch, drag or stick against the frame
• Frames that have warped, split or been damaged by forced entry
• Hinges that have pulled loose from the timber or bent
• Lock keeps that no longer line up with the bolt or latch
• Handles, letterboxes and door furniture that need replacing
• Multipoint locking strips that have bent, seized or come loose
• Gaps around the door edge letting in draughts and compromising security
• Timber rot around the lock area or at the base of the frame
• uPVC doors that have dropped and no longer lock correctly

Repair first, replace only when necessary

We are not trying to sell you a new door. If the existing one can be repaired, realigned and made secure for a reasonable cost, that is what we will do. A door that sticks can often be planed down. A frame with a pulled hinge can be re-packed and re-screwed with longer fixings. A keep that no longer lines up can be repositioned in twenty minutes. These are straightforward repairs that extend the life of the door and save you the expense of a full replacement.

We will only recommend replacing a door or frame if the damage is too severe to repair reliably, or if the cost of patching it up repeatedly outweighs the cost of doing the job once and properly. In that case we will explain exactly why, and give you a clear idea of what the replacement work involves.

Emergency door repairs

If your door has been damaged in a break-in or attempted forced entry, we can handle the immediate make-safe work first. That might mean boarding over the damaged area, fitting a temporary lock, or carrying out an emergency repair to get you through the night. We can then return at a convenient time for a proper repair or replacement.

We also attend when doors have been accidentally damaged, for example a door that has been kicked in by a locked-out partner, a delivery driver who has forced open a stuck entrance, or storm damage that has pulled a door off its hinges.

Door repairs across Earlsfield and South West London

We cover Earlsfield, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Tooting, Balham, Southfields and the surrounding postcodes. If you can send us a photo of the door, the frame and the lock area before we arrive, it helps us bring the right parts and give you a more accurate idea of the likely work involved.

For door repairs in Earlsfield, call 020 3369 6009.