Patio, entry, storm and screen doors: Kingston options at a glance
Most door trouble in Kingston, Ontario is a part rather than a door: rollers worn flat under a slider, a storm door closer beaten by a gust off the lake, a cracked sidelight. Find your symptom below. We pass your request to an independent local pro who works on that kind of door, and they confirm whether a part will do.
Won't slide or lock
Sliding patio doors: rollers, tracks and handles
Sliding door repair
Won't slide, latch or stay on the track? Worn rollers, a dented track and a tired latch are each replaceable parts.
Fog between the panes
Haze sealed inside the glass means the thermal unit has failed. The glass can usually be replaced while the door stays.
When the door itself is done
A rotted sill, a split frame or a draft that new weatherstrip can't stop. Compare sliding and hinged garden doors.
Front of the house
Entry doors, storm doors and the glass in them
Entry doors
A draft on the latch side or a door that sticks each summer is often weatherstrip, a sweep or sagging hinges.
Door glass, sidelights and transoms
A cracked insert, cloudy sidelight or broken transom pane can usually be replaced while the door stays hung, in safety glass.
Storm doors
Common on older Kingston houses. Cracked glass, a torn screen insert or a closer that lets the door slam are separate repairs.
Stone-house entrances
Older limestone and brick houses often keep original transoms and sidelights. On a designated home, call Heritage Planning before changing them.
Bugs out, air in
Screen doors and window screens
Screen doors
Patio screen doors off their track, hinged ones with a weak closer, torn mesh, or a retractable screen for a garden door.
Window screens
Torn mesh and bent frames are rescreened or rebuilt, one at a time or as a batch for a rental between leases.
Island cottages
Cottages open each summer with screens to sort. Photos first mean the right mesh and frame parts are on the first ferry.
Tenants, landlords, boards
Condo and rental doors: approvals first
Renting?
Report a sticking patio door, a lock that won't catch or a torn screen door to your landlord first, with photos.
Landlords and managers
Several houses near Queen's with dragging sliders and torn screen doors? One request can cover them all.
Condo owners
Condo patio and balcony doors are often common elements, so the board generally approves a change before work is booked.
Questions
Before you ask about a door
Where pros travel
Door help across Kingston and nearby
We connect homeowners and landlords with door and glass pros from the old stone core to the west end, and in Loyalist Township and Gananoque. For Wolfe Island or a rural road, send your address and we'll check whether a pro covers it.
Show us the door and what it's doing
A photo and a few words are enough: won't latch, slams in the wind, cloudy glass. We pass it to a local pro who works on that door, and we follow up if nothing happens.