DOORS AND WINDOWS
Door and window repair and replacement in Yakima
Sticking doors, drafty glass and bad installs waste money every month. We repair what can be saved and replace what cannot, inside and out.
Chapter 01
Drafts, sags and fogged glass: what a failing opening looks like
A door tells you early. It sticks in the frame, sags on its hinges, warps, or the hardware gives up and the latch no longer catches. Hinges work loose, the weatherstrip lets daylight through, and the slab picks up damage that nobody gets around to fixing. Poor installation is on that list too, and it is the one that shows up on a house that had the work done only a few years ago.
Windows fail more quietly. Cold or hot drafts come through the sash. Gaps and cracks open at the frame. Glass breaks, a window that used to slide now sticks while closing or opening, or it will not lock or stay open. Heavy condensation and a room that hears every truck on the street are signs the unit is no longer insulating. Old windows that are not energy efficient leak heat all winter and gain it all summer.
Most of these are quick repairs. Some are not, and a door or window that has been fixed twice is usually telling you it needs a replacement. We will say which one it is when we are standing in front of it.
Crew installing a replacement window on a Gleed home
How a door or window gets replaced right
Every opening in a house is part of the same weather system as the roof above it. So the work starts with the frame and the rough opening, not the new unit. We look at what the old door or window was sitting in, because a bad install usually means water or air was already getting past it. If there is damage behind the trim, we want to find it before the new unit goes in.
On a whole-house job, that means working through the doors and windows one opening at a time: remove the old unit, check and square the opening, set the new one plumb and sealed, and then deal with the trim. On our Gleed project the crew replaced every door and window in the house and re-wrapped the window trims, so the new openings looked finished from the street and not just from inside.
We handle interior doors and exterior doors, repairs and full replacements, and we are a licensed Washington contractor (YAKIMRR785KB), so a window or door project that comes with other remodeling work stays under one roof.
Chapter 03
Keeping doors closing and windows sealed through a Yakima winter
Our own maintenance notes say heavy snow loads can stress a house enough that windows and doors no longer close correctly, and that caulking will eventually fail and has to be inspected and replaced. Both are worth a look each fall, before the first snow, when a gap is easy to fix and nobody is heating the outdoors.
If a door starts sticking in the middle of winter, do not plane it down on the first cold day. Call us and we will tell you whether the house has moved, the frame is wet, or the hinges have simply worked loose. A phone call to 509-907-7206 costs less than a second door.
We serve Yakima, Naches, Gleed and the towns around them. If you are already planning other work on the exterior, ask about siding or a roof inspection on the same visit.
On a Gleed home we replaced all of the doors and windows and re-wrapped the window trims, and our crew put our own yard sign on the job.
Named job, Gleed, WA
Gleed: every door and window in one house
This is the project we point to when someone asks what a whole-house swap looks like. Every door and every window came out, new units went in, and the window trims were re-wrapped to finish the job. More photos are in the project gallery.
