Doors, frames and openings
Commercial Door Repair in Lexington and Richmond, KY
Swing doors on commercial buildings — the door itself, the frame it sits in and the opening it hangs in. Entry doors, interior doors and exterior wood doors in Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County).
Not overhead, garage, roll-up or dock doors. We do not take those at any building, for any customer. If that is the door that failed, four companies in this market do exactly that work and you want one of them, not us.
Which door this is, and which it is not
Search results for this term are mostly garage doors, so it is worth being exact about what lands on this page. The trade calls a steel swing door on a back entrance a man door or a hollow-metal door. That is the door most often meant when a facilities manager says the door will not close.
| The door | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Hollow-metal swing door — a man door, service door or back entrance | This page. The door, its frame and the opening. |
| Interior swing doors — offices, suites, storerooms | This page. |
| Exterior wood entry doors | This page, including sanding, staining and sealing the exterior face. |
| A door in a wall that does not exist yet | Interior repairs and build-out — the wall is scoped there, the opening and the door are scoped here. |
| Overhead, garage, roll-up and dock doors | Not us. Not taken at any building. Specialist companies in this market hold that work. |
What we take on
This page covers the door, its frame and the opening it hangs in.
New doors and new openings
Framing a rough opening with a header, king studs and jack studs sized to the door going in, square and plumb. Setting the frame, hanging and adjusting the door for smooth operation, and casing both sides.
The wall the opening goes into is scoped on interior repairs and build-out.
Doors you already own
Facilities storerooms are full of doors. We will hang what the building already owns, fit and adjust it, and case both sides, rather than sell you a replacement for something sitting on your own rack.
Owner-furnished material must arrive in serviceable condition. Fit adjustment is included; the condition, size and compatibility of a door you supply is not warranted.
Exterior wood entry door refinishing
A weathered wood entry on a commercial building has nobody obvious to call. Glass companies do glass and overhead-door companies do overhead doors.
The full scope and its exclusions are written out below.
Exterior wood entry door refinishing — the scope, in full
This is how the work is written on a CPS estimate. It is generic on purpose: no building and no price, because both come out of walking the door. The structure is what stays the same, and the exclusions travel with it on the same page rather than behind it.
- Protect and mask Cover glass, hardware, weatherstripping and the surrounding finishes before anything is opened up.
- Sand Take the exterior face down to a sound, stain-ready surface, removing the failed coating rather than coating over it.
- Stain Apply stain in the colour you select, to the exterior face.
- Seal Apply a waterproof exterior clear coat over the stain, so the surface is protected against sun and moisture.
- Unmask and clean Remove masking, clean the work area, and leave the entrance usable.
What refinishing does not include
Interior faces, hardware, glass and weatherstripping. Those are masked and protected, not worked on. That exclusion is on the estimate itself, in writing, before you approve anything.
A refinished exterior face and an aged interior face will not read identically, and a door with rot or a failed core is a replacement conversation rather than a refinishing one. We would rather say that on the walk than after the sanding starts.
Additional or changed work you ask for during the job is quoted in writing and approved before it is done. The invoice you did not expect is the argument every manager is actually trying to avoid, and it gets prevented on the quote.
What we do not take on
Outside our scope, stated plainly
- Overhead, garage, roll-up and dock doors. Not at any building. This is the first thing on the page for a reason.
- Access control, card readers, electric strikes and low-voltage. A door and the system that decides who may open it are two different contractors. Those belong to your access-control contractor.
- The fire-alarm interface. Anything a door does because the alarm panel told it to belongs to the alarm contractor.
- Fire-rated door assemblies and specialty hardware. On our exclusions list, on every estimate. We do not inspect, certify or label a rated assembly.
- Fire sprinkler. Not ours, at any hour.
- HVAC, electrical and plumbing. We do not advertise, sell or take responsibility for these trades. After hours, those calls are referred rather than taken.
- Restoration. No water extraction, no structural drying, no mold remediation. We hold no restoration certification and do not imply one.
- Residential property. Houses and homeowner repairs. Commercial and institutional buildings only.
- Concealed conditions. What is found inside a wall after an opening is cut is quoted as a separate written change order, never absorbed silently and never billed by surprise.
When a door is an emergency
The rule is one sentence. A door that will not close leaves the building open; a door that will not open is an exit. Either one is a call, not a form — and a door that is annoying but secure is this page.
If the building cannot be secured right now, that is a make-safe call: emergency and make-safe response, or (859) 310-1209.
We do not publish a response window, an arrival time or an average. None has been measured, so none is promised. A published window you can hold us to is worth having; an invented one is worth nothing to either of us.
Before we quote — what we need
Six answers turn a call into a scope. Most can be given standing in front of the door.
- What the door is — steel, wood or something else, exterior or interior, single or pair.
- Roughly what the opening measures.
- What is on the door now, and what it is doing. Sticking, dragging, not latching, not closing, or a frame that has moved.
- Whether the building can be secured while the door is off, and for how long.
- The access window, and who lets us in.
- Who is authorized to approve the work, their title, and a PO or work-order number if one exists.
Tell us what is on the door and we will tell you plainly whether the fix is ours or belongs to another trade. Sending you to the right contractor costs us a call and saves you a week.
Related work
Interior repairs and build-out
Partition walls, drywall and ceilings, trim, paint and finish work in occupied buildings. The wall an opening is framed into is scoped there.
Emergency and make-safe response
When the building is open, unsecured or unsafe right now. Securing and making safe only — the repair that follows gets scoped afterwards.
Building envelope
Water landing on an entrance usually starts above it. Flashing, sealants, gutters and downspouts over a door opening are envelope work.
Where the flashing stops and the roof starts
Flashing, sealants and wall transitions above a door are ours. Roof surfaces and roof systems are not — those are handled by a separate roofing company, and you will be pointed there rather than quoted for work this company does not take.
Vendor paperwork — W-9, insurance certificates, credentialing and work-order intake — is on the approved vendor page.
Request an assessment
Tell us the door, the building and the access window
Send what the door is, what it is doing, when we can get in, who is authorized to approve the work, and a PO or work-order number if one exists. You get a written scope, the exclusions and the change-order rule back — not a sales call.
Serving Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County). Service-area business — no walk-in address.