Door Maintenance

Our door maintenance tips can help you keep your home cost efficient, safe & cozy.

How to Stop a Storm Door from Icing Up

Frosted up storm doors can be frustrating, blocking your views and signaling an inefficient home. Learn more about them here.

Read these 8 things you can do yourself to keep warm inside your home.

Weatherstripping eliminates pesky door air leaks and improves energy efficiency. Learn how to install it from This Old House's Tom Silva.

Read these 8 steps for how to repair your broken sliding door.

In this guide, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to tighten up and pare down a door swelled by summer humidity.

In this guide, we'll explore the causes of sticking wood doors and provide step-by-step solutions to help you better operate your doors.

Go from sticky to smooth in a few easy steps

If you have to slam a door to get it to stay closed, you probably have a very fixable problem with its latch. Our guide will help you fix it.

If a door sags because the hinge holes are stripped, you can use dowels to save the day.

The key to keeping your new screen from sagging or drooping

Discover how the lipstick trick can help you quickly and easily align your door hardware so that it opens, closes and latches smoothly.

Here are a few ways to enlarge holes in various materials for different types of home improvement or remodeling projects.

A hole saw won't do you any good. Try this

Make the right cut for out-of-square windows and doors