Doors & Windows in Lakewood, CO

The cheap fix for a sticking door is to plane the edge until it clears. It works until the season changes, and then you've got a door with a visible gap that still doesn't latch right. I start at the hinges — a long screw into the framing behind the top hinge pulls a sagging door back into square and solves a surprising share of these calls in about ten minutes. Planing is the last resort, not the first.

Denver's swing between bone-dry winters and monsoon-season humidity moves solid wood doors noticeably across the year, and houses on expansive clay move frames along with them. If a door only sticks in July, that's seasonal and I'll set the clearance to live with both extremes rather than chasing one. If it sticks year-round and the gap is wedge-shaped, something structural moved and I'll tell you what I'm seeing.

Window work depends heavily on what you have. Modern vinyl and aluminum-clad units usually have available balances, cranks, and hardware, and repair beats replacement on cost every time. Older wood double-hungs with rope-and-weight balances are repairable too and often worth saving. Failed thermal seals — the foggy look between panes — mean the glass unit itself needs replacing, which I can coordinate but is glass work rather than handyman work.