Door Services

A door is the part of a house people touch most. Dozens of times a day, hands go to the same knob, the same latch, the same swing. When it drags on the jamb or refuses to catch, the annoyance compounds fast.

Don Wojan Handyman handles door repair, adjustment, and replacement work for homeowners throughout North Dallas and Collin County. The company is veteran owned, backed by more than twenty-five years of remodeling and repair experience, and we work in those two regions only. Staying inside that footprint means we know what doors in these neighborhoods tend to do and why.

Older North Dallas homes and newer Plano and Collin County builds present different door problems, but both land on our schedule regularly. Interior doors, exterior entry doors, patio and French units, garage-to-house doors, closet and pocket doors, storm doors — all fall inside our scope.

Sticking and dragging tops the list. A door that rubs the jamb at the top corner or scrapes the threshold is almost always reporting a frame that has moved out of square, not a door that has grown. Correcting it means addressing the frame, the hinges, or both rather than planing the slab and calling it solved.

Latches that miss the strike plate come next. When the bolt lands above or below the opening, shimming hinges or repositioning the strike usually restores clean operation. Deadbolts that require lifting the door to turn are the same story in a more advanced stage.

Hinge failure shows up as sag. Screws pull out of soft jamb wood, especially on heavy exterior slabs, and the door tips forward under its own weight. Longer fasteners into the framing, hinge replacement, or jamb repair each address different versions of that.

Air and water intrusion belongs on this list too. Compressed weatherstripping, worn thresholds and door sweeps, deteriorated exterior casing, and failed caulk joints let heat, dust, and rain past the opening. On west-facing entries the sun degrades those components faster than most owners expect.

Then there is damage — kicked panels, pet scratching, rot at the bottom rail of a wood exterior door, split jambs from a forced entry, and hollow-core interior doors punched through. Some of that repairs cleanly. Some argues for a new unit.

When a slab is rotted, delaminated, or badly out of true, or when a frame has been compromised, replacement is the straight answer. We remove the old unit, prepare and correct the opening, set the new door plumb and square, install and adjust hardware, and complete the flashing, sealing, and trim work that keeps weather out.

Exterior projects include entry doors, sidelights, patio sliders, French pairs, and the associated thresholds and casings. Interior work covers standard swing doors, bifolds, pockets, barn-style hardware, and closet units. Hardware upgrades on their own are welcome as well — new lever sets, deadbolts, hinges, closers, and smart lock installation on existing doors that operate fine and just need updating.



Openings that need resizing or reframing get identified before anything is ordered. Setting a new door into an unsquare opening reproduces the original complaint within a season, so the framing gets corrected first.

Reviews from people who have actually had work completed at their homes carry more weight than anything a contractor writes about himself, and ours have been consistent about the fundamentals: showing up on schedule, communicating clearly through the job, diagnosing the real cause instead of the obvious symptom, and finishing without leaving a mess behind. Customers have also pointed out that Don's background as an insurance adjuster at Allstate and State Farm proved useful when their repair intersected with a claim, and several have noted work wrapped up sooner than they anticipated. That record is still growing as we serve more households across North Dallas and Collin County, and we would rather build it honestly than pad it. If we handle a door at your place, tell us plainly how it went.

Door questions tend to circle the same few issues, most of them tied to how much North Texas soil moves under these houses. The answers below cover what homeowners in Plano, McKinney, Allen, and the North Dallas neighborhoods ask most often.



If your situation is not addressed here, put the details in your quote request. You will get a specific reply rather than a generic one, and if the fix is simpler than you feared, we will say so.

Use the form to describe what your door is doing. Specifics help: which door, whether it is interior or exterior, and what exactly is wrong — dragging, latch missing, air leaking, hinges sagging, panel damaged. If more than one door is involved, list them all.

Photos are the fastest way to move a quote forward. One picture of the door closed, one of the gap at the jamb or threshold, and a close-up of any damage tells us most of what we need. If the home's approximate age is known, include that too, since 1960s North Dallas framing and 2000s Plano framing are different animals.



Once your request comes in, we will confirm your address sits inside North Dallas or Collin County, review the scope, and set a time to look at the work in person. Estimates are free, and grouping several doors into one visit is almost always the more efficient route.