Does your door stick or not close properly?
Doors in Rotterdam move all year. Timber swells in a wet autumn and shrinks when the heating is on, so they stick, drag or no longer latch. Rain and wind also work on shed, garden-gate and garage doors: hinges rust, draught strips fall off and the door hangs crooked. Handyman Rotterdam planes, adjusts and makes the latch reliable again.
What we do
We repair and adjust doors, from an interior door to a shed.
- Planing doors that stick or drag
- Replacing hinges, strike plates and closers
- Fitting draught strips and drop seals
- Tightening loose screws and damaged panels
- Strike plate and hinges adjusted until the door latches
- Draught strip and drop seal so the gap under the door is closed
- Shed door, garden gate and garage door that hangs crooked
- A door that drags on the floor or over the tiles or laminate
- Together with the locksmith when the lock only fits after the door hangs straight
- Checking the door closes smoothly before we leave
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Door adjustment
Testing and checking
Damage repairWhy doors start to stick in Rotterdam
Moisture, wind and temperature
Timber moves with the weather. In stairwell flats and terraces a door swells in autumn and shrinks in winter until it drags or will not shut. Outside, hinges rust faster in the rain. A door that hangs is not only annoying: a draught and a gap invite moisture in. In a stairwell flat that draught also runs along the floor and past the lock, which then sits out of line. We do not just plane an edge if the frame or the hinge is the real cause.
When it is time
Most people wait until the door will not close. Earlier you hear scraping, a slam or a gap at the bottom. The door hangs crooked, stops halfway or you have to lift the handle to reach the lock. Catching that early saves a frame that would otherwise need cutting back.
A small repair, a door that fits again
A new hinge, a planed edge or a fresh draught strip makes the door quiet, secure and draught-free. We also adjust shed and garden-gate doors, and garage doors where a home has one. This is the doors Rotterdam houses actually have.
We make sure it keeps working
We oil hinges, line up rollers or wheels where they exist, and check the latch and threshold before we leave. Call 06 16 202 232, we come and look, you hear the price first, and the door then closes smoothly.