Door installation
in Yarrow.

Door installation in Yarrow

Yarrow farmhouses and Cultus Lake cabins often have exterior doors that have dropped, warped or rotted at the sill. We check the frame and sill first and replace what needs replacing so the new door stays tight.

Yarrow sits at the foot of Vedder Mountain on the south west edge of Chilliwack, with older farmhouses, acreages and newer homes on Majuba Hill. Up the road, Cultus Lake and Lindell Beach have cabins and lake homes that see heavy summer use and damp winters.

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.