Door installation
in White Rock.

Door installation in White Rock

White Rock doors face salt air and wind driven rain off Semiahmoo Bay. We choose exterior doors, thresholds and hardware that suit a coastal exposure and seal them properly.

White Rock homes face the water, which means wind driven rain off Semiahmoo Bay and salt air. Exterior and patio doors take a beating, and hardware corrodes faster than it does inland. We pick exterior doors, thresholds and hardware that suit a coastal exposure and seal them properly.

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.