Door installation
in Agassiz.

Door installation in Agassiz

Many homes in Agassiz and Harrison are decades old, and their exterior doors take wet winters and lake weather. Replacing a worn entry or patio door with a properly flashed and sealed unit makes a big difference here.

Agassiz and Harrison are farm country, older town homes and lakeside cabins. Many homes here are decades old, so jobs often mean replacing tired doors and trim, levelling floors before new ones go down, and updating stairs while keeping the character of the house.

What a good door install looks like

A door is one of the few pieces of carpentry you touch every day, so you notice when it is off. It drifts open, rubs at the head, the latch needs a shove, or light shows around the edge. Almost every one of those problems comes back to the frame: a jamb that is out of plumb, a hinge side that was not shimmed solid, or a rough opening nobody checked before the door went in.

We check the opening first. We shim the hinge side solid behind every hinge, set the jamb plumb and square in both directions, and keep the reveal even down both sides and across the head. Then we fit the hardware, adjust the strike so the latch catches without a push, and case it out with tight mitres. When we leave, the door swings, closes and latches the way it should.

Exterior doors in the Fraser Valley

Exterior doors here deal with a lot of rain and, east of Langley, cold outflow winds in winter. An entry door that is not flashed and sealed properly lets water into the wall and wind under the sweep. We set exterior doors on a sloped, protected sill, flash the opening, insulate the gap between frame and stud with low expansion foam, and adjust the threshold and weatherstrip so the seal is continuous.

If the existing frame or subfloor under the sill is soft, we will tell you before we start and put it in the quote. Replacing a door over rot just hides the problem for another winter.