Door installation
in Langley.

Door installation in Langley

Willoughby and Walnut Grove townhouses and family homes often still have their original builder doors. Replacing every interior door with new casing and hardware is one of the most common Langley upgrades we quote.

Langley has some of the widest range of housing in the Fraser Valley. Willoughby and Walnut Grove are full of townhouses and family homes from the last few decades, where builder grade doors, thin baseboard and worn carpet are often the first things owners want upgraded. Fort Langley and Murrayville have older and character homes where the trim needs to suit the house, not fight it.

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.