Wooden Door Repairs
The same craft skills that go into restoring sash windows apply directly to traditional timber doors. If your front door, frame, threshold or sill is rotten, peeling or sticking, we can repair it — usually without replacing the whole door.
Common door problems we fix
- Rot at the base of the frame — the most common issue (pictured above), where ground moisture and weathering destroy the bottom 20–30cm of timber. We splice in fresh Accoya® sections and rebuild the profile to match the original.
- Peeling and flaking paint — full strip back to bare timber, prime, and finish with our premium spray system. See our guide to painting wooden joinery for what we do (and what to avoid).
- Sticking, dragging or misaligned doors — we plane, ease and rehang on new hinges if needed.
- Damaged thresholds and sills — replaced with hardwood or Accoya, drip-grooved properly so water sheds clear of the frame.
- Failed hardware — locks, latches, letterplates, knockers and hinges restored or replaced with period-correct alternatives.
- Split panels and worn mouldings — epoxy consolidation for minor damage, like-for-like replacement for major.
Our approach
Same approach as our window restoration work: assess on site, restore wherever the structure is sound, and only replace whole sections where it's genuinely beyond saving. In our experience the vast majority of timber doors — even those with severe-looking rot like the example above — can be restored to better-than-original condition for a fraction of the cost of a new door.
- On-site assessment and free quote.
- Strip paintwork back to bare timber using heat guns and chemical strippers (no aggressive sanding that damages mouldings).
- Cut out rot, splice in Accoya sections, treat surrounding timber with preservative, fill and consolidate with marine-grade epoxy.
- Sand flush, prime, and apply two top coats of premium exterior paint via spray for a factory-quality finish.
- Rehang, balance, and refit furniture so the door operates smoothly and seals tight.
Why repair rather than replace?
- Preserves the character of period properties — original Victorian and Georgian doors are part of what makes a house desirable.
- Significantly cheaper than a like-for-like replacement door (which can run into thousands when joinery and paint are factored in).
- Better materials — Accoya replacement sections last decades longer than the original softwood and won't rot again in the same place.
- Less disruption — most door repairs are completed on site in a day or two.
For more on how we approach timber rot in general, see our blog post on repairing rotten sash windows — the same principles apply to doors.
Get a free door repair quote
Tel: 01727 638 999