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Aliceville, Alabama · Pickens County

Commercial Door Repair in Aliceville, AL

We work on hollow metal doors and frames, aluminum entrances, back-of-house service doors and the hardware that goes with them: closers, exit devices, lever sets, continuous hinges and electric strikes.

  • Repair first, replace last
  • Homes & businesses
  • Pickens County covered
  • Straight answers on the phone

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Commercial Door Repair — Aliceville, Alabama

We service every part of Aliceville, including Downtown Aliceville and the US-17 corridor, and the nearby Pickens County towns like Carrollton and Reform.

A lot of what we see in Pickens County comes down to age. Houses built decades ago have solid frames with tired hardware; houses built recently have sound hardware in frames that are still settling.

Broken, stuck, or will not lock?Talk to someone who works on these every day.

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Signs you need commercial door repair in Aliceville

These are the commercial door repair faults we are called out to most often in Aliceville. If you recognise one, the underlying cause is usually the second half of the line.

  • A gap at the bottom letting in water or pestsFailed sweep and threshold seal.
  • Rust at the bottom of a steel doorWater sitting at the threshold; the door bottom is rotting out.
  • The door will not latch and has to be pulled shutCloser adjustment, hinge wear or frame movement, and it is a security failure until fixed.
  • The door has started dragging only in the afternoonThermal expansion of a metal door and frame across the working day, which points to a marginal reveal.
  • The closer is dropping oil down the doorFailed seal in the closer body; the unit is done.
  • The astragal on a pair has bent outwardRepeated forcing of the inactive leaf, usually because the flush bolts are seized.

Most doors we see are repairable.Call and find out before you price a replacement.

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How conditions in Aliceville affect commercial door repair

Humidity stays high from late spring through September, which is exactly when wood doors that fit fine in winter start dragging on the jamb.

Water driven under a commercial door with a failed sweep gets into the floor finish and into stock, and standing water at the threshold rusts out the bottom of a steel door from the inside.

Humidity swells wood commercial doors and rusts the internals of hardware on doors that are propped open for ventilation, which is very common in kitchens and back-of-house areas.

It is why the same repair done properly in Aliceville lasts, and the same repair done cheaply does not.

Local factors we account for in Aliceville: heavy rainfall and sustained humidity — typical of west Alabama.

Most doors we see are repairable.Call and find out before you price a replacement.

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What we repair

  • Weatherstrip, sweeps and thresholdsSealing service doors against water, air and pests.
  • Electric strike and access control hardwareFitting and troubleshooting electric strikes, mag locks and request-to-exit hardware.
  • Emergency securingMaking a damaged commercial opening secure the same day.
  • Hollow metal door and frame repairRepairing impact damage, corrosion and worn hardware locations in steel doors and frames.
  • Continuous hinge installationFull-length geared hinges on doors that keep tearing out standard hinges.
  • Door bottom and edge repairRebuilding corroded steel door bottoms rather than replacing the whole leaf.
  • Door closer repair and replacementSurface, concealed and floor closers adjusted or replaced.

Not sure whether it is a repair or a replacement?Describe the symptoms and we will give you a straight answer.

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How we approach commercial door repair

  1. Secure the opening firstIf the door will not lock, that gets addressed before anything else, even if the full repair needs a return visit.
  2. Assess door, frame and hardware togetherOn commercial openings the fault is rarely in one component. Closer, hinges, frame and floor all interact.
  3. Work around your hours where we canRetail, restaurant and clinic doors often need to be worked on outside of trading hours, and we plan for that. We assess whether the opening has shifted before adjusting hardware, since correcting the symptom here tends not to hold.
  4. Specify to the environmentKitchen, loading bay and customer entrance are three different specifications, and we fit to the one in front of us.
  5. Adjust for code and accessibilityOpening force, closing speed and latching all get set to the requirements the door has to meet.
  6. Document what was doneParts, adjustments and anything we flagged but did not do, so you have a record for the next visit or for compliance.

Not sure whether it is a repair or a replacement?Describe the symptoms and we will give you a straight answer.

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What affects the cost of commercial door repair in Aliceville

Pricing on commercial door repair depends on what has actually failed, which is why we talk it through before quoting. These are the things that move the number:

  • after-hours or emergency response
  • the number of openings serviced in one visit
  • access control components on the opening
  • whether the frame needs repair as well as the door
  • the type of door: hollow metal, aluminum storefront or wood

Call and describe what the door is doing. In most cases we can tell you over the phone which of those applies to you before anyone drives out to Aliceville.

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Areas we cover for commercial door repair in Aliceville

Aliceville coverage runs across Downtown Aliceville and the US-17 corridor, and out to the areas around Aliceville Lake on the Tenn-Tom Waterway and the Aliceville Museum.

Service area: Aliceville, Pickens County, Alabama — and the surrounding communities.

We also cover the nearby Pickens County and west Alabama communities listed further down this page.

One call gets you an answer.We will tell you what is wrong and what it takes to fix.

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Commercial door repair in Aliceville: questions we get asked

Do you handle doors with electric strikes and access control?

Yes. We also find that a lot of access control complaints are actually mechanical: a door binding or a strike out of alignment makes perfectly good electronics look faulty.

Our door slams so hard it shakes the wall. What is wrong?

The closer's closing speed and latch speed are out of adjustment, or the closer has failed internally. Beyond the noise, slamming destroys hinges, frames and the door itself.

Can you make all our doors work on one key?

Yes. Keyed-alike or master key systems are straightforward to set up and make a real difference for Aliceville businesses with multiple entrances and staff turnover.

Can you work outside our business hours?

Yes, and for a lot of Aliceville storefronts and restaurants that is the only sensible way to do it. Tell us your trading hours when you call and we will schedule around them.

Can a damaged hollow metal frame be repaired?

Usually. Impact damage at the strike and around the anchors is repairable in place, which avoids pulling the frame out of the wall and redoing the surrounding finishes.

What causes rust at the bottom of our steel doors?

Water standing at the threshold. In Pickens County that is usually drainage at the entrance or a failed sweep, and the door bottom can often be rebuilt rather than replacing the whole leaf.

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Most doors we see are repairable.Call and find out before you price a replacement.

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