A door that drags one season and swings loose the next is not in your head — it is the ground under your slab moving with our wet-dry cycles and nudging the frame out of square. We plane, shim, and re-hang doors so they close with a clean latch year-round, and we reset strike plates so the deadbolt throws without a shoulder behind it.
We handle the hardware side too: worn hinges, new knobs and levers, builder-grade locksets swapped for something solid, and fresh weatherstripping to keep blowing dust and winter northers on the outside where they belong.
The big temperature swings out here work doors as much as the soil does. A steel exterior door can gain a quarter inch on a hundred-degree afternoon and shrink tight again overnight, so a door that latched fine at breakfast drags by dinner. We account for that expansion when we set the gaps and the strike, leaving the clearances a Lubbock door needs to work in both August heat and a January freeze.
Door repair pricing in Lubbock turns on what is actually wrong. Realigning a strike plate or tightening hinges is quick and inexpensive; planing and re-hanging a sticking slab takes longer. Exterior doors cost more than interior ones because weatherstripping, thresholds, and the deadbolt all come into play. New hardware, especially a full house rekeyed to one key, adds material. Solid-core and old, heavy mid-century doors are more work than a hollow-core, and drive time out to acreage rounds out the number.
The soil under your foundation takes on moisture in a wet stretch and swells, racking the frame just enough to bind the door. It is common all over Lubbock. We correct the fit and can suggest watering habits that keep the ground more stable.
Yes — that is almost always a strike plate knocked out of line by frame movement. We reposition or open up the strike, adjust the latch, and test the deadbolt until it engages smoothly.
We do — handlesets, deadbolts, and smart locks. If you are upgrading a whole house from builder hardware, we can set it up rekey-ready so everything works off one key.
The weatherstripping has hardened or the sweep no longer meets the threshold, and our fine blowing dust finds every gap the way water never has to. We replace the perimeter seal and the door sweep, adjust the threshold height, and check the corners, so a closed door actually keeps the haboob grit out.
Usually yes. Grit blown into the bottom track wears the rollers and packs the channel, which is what you feel dragging. We clean out the track, replace worn rollers, adjust the height, and lubricate it so the door glides again. Given how much dust rides our wind, this is a regular fix here.
We bring door repair & adjustment to homes and rentals all over the South Plains — tell us your neighborhood and we're likely already nearby.
Send over a photo and a couple of details, and we'll come back with a firm number and a morning we can be there.