# Door Repair in Chapel Hill, NC > A puddle by the front door after every storm, a cold ribbon of air all winter — **a leaking door seals up from $175.** Catch it before the water teaches the frame to rot. **From $175 · 4.9 · 473+ reviews** ## Water by the Door After a Storm Means the Seal System Gave Up A door keeps weather out with a team of quiet parts: the threshold underneath, the sweep along the bottom edge, the perimeter seals up the sides. Chapel Hill's tree-canopy storms find the first member of that team to fail — and suddenly there's a wet entry mat, a swollen doorstep, a draft you can trace with a candle. Each part has a modest price: seals and sweep from $175, thresholds set right, hinges trued so the door actually meets its seals square. - Rainwater at the entry — threshold and sweep, from $175 - Cold air along the edges — perimeter seals, $175 - Door meeting its seals crooked — re-hung to close square - Storm and French doors sealed the same visit ## What the Water Already Ruined, We Rebuild in Real Wood A door that leaked for a few seasons usually leaves a souvenir: soft, darkened wood at the bottom of the frame where the water sat. That's not a new-door sentence — it's a [wood repair](/rotten-wood-repair/). The rotted section is cut out to sound material and a laminated piece milled to the original profile takes its place, from $475. Fix the leak and the rot in one visit, and the entry is dry, solid and draft-free before the next storm rolls over Franklin Street. - Rotted frame bottoms rebuilt — from $475 - Door-bottom wood and sashes — from $575 - Leak path sealed so the repair stays dry - One visit: the cause and the damage, both handled ## How Door Repair Works in Chapel Hill Find the leak, price the parts, seal the entry — one visit for most doors. - **Trace the Water** — Threshold, sweep, seals, hinge geometry and frame wood all checked — the leak's entry point and its damage mapped together. - **Line-by-Line Quote** — Seals from $175, frame wood from $475, glass from $198 if the door has it — written before tools come out. - **Seal & Rebuild** — New seals seated, threshold trued, any water-damaged wood cut out and replaced with milled stock the same visit. - **Final Check & Warranty** — The door closes square against fresh seals while you watch — backed by a written workmanship warranty. ## How Much Does Door Repair Cost in Chapel Hill? Leak repairs are small-ticket work when they're caught before the rot — in writing first: - **Perimeter seals & sweeps** — $175 - **Locks & hardware** — $175 · **door glass** — from $198 - **Water-damaged frame wood** — rebuilt from $475 - **For scale** — a new entry door installation runs ~$10,000 ## Why Chapel Hill Homeowners Choose WowFix - **Backed by a Warranty** — Every repair comes with a written workmanship warranty. If it's not right, we come back and make it right. - **Repair, Not Replace** — We fix the part that failed — glass, seal, sash or hardware — so you keep your windows and skip full-replacement cost. - **Local, In-House Crews** — Your repair is done by our own technicians, never subcontracted — most jobs booked within days. - **Upfront, Honest Pricing** — A clear quote before any work starts. No hidden fees, no upsells, no pressure to replace what we can repair. ## Door Repair in Chapel Hill — FAQ **Q: Every hard rain leaves a puddle just inside our front door. Where is it getting in?** A: Usually at the bottom: a threshold that's settled out of level, or a sweep worn down to daylight. Wind-driven Chapel Hill rain exploits either one. Both are modest fixes — from $175 — and the visit checks the frame wood while we're there, because standing water rarely leaves quietly. **Q: The front door leaks air in winter even though it looks closed. Fixable without replacing?** A: Almost always. Perimeter seals flatten with age, and doors drift on their hinges until they close against the seals crooked — a gap at the top corner you can sometimes see daylight through. Fresh seals ($175) plus a proper re-hang close the ribbon of cold air for a fraction of any replacement conversation. **Q: There's soft, dark wood at the bottom of the frame now. Did we wait too long?** A: You waited exactly long enough to need a wood repair, not a new door: the rotted section is cut out and rebuilt with laminated lumber milled to the original profile, from $475. The same visit fixes the leak that fed it — otherwise the new wood inherits the old problem. **Q: Our door is original to a 1950s house near campus. Can you work on it without ruining its character?** A: That's our favorite kind of assignment. Repairs splice in matched-profile wood and keep the original slab, hardware layout and proportions — the door stays itself, just dry and snug. Chapel Hill's older doors were built from better lumber than anything on a shelf today; keeping them is usually the premium choice, not the compromise. **Q: Does the door glass count as part of door repair?** A: Yes — fogged or cracked panels in entry and storm doors swap for made-to-measure sealed units from $198, in the same visit as seals or wood work. One truck, one written sheet, no second appointment. **Q: How fast can you get to Chapel Hill?** A: Orange County is on the weekly Triangle rotation — leak assessments book within days, and most seal-and-wood repairs finish in a single visit. ## Serving Chapel Hill & Orange County From pre-war entries near campus to newer doors in Southern Village and Meadowmont, Chapel Hill's storm-and-shade climate tests them all — and the Triangle crew is here weekly. Around Chapel Hill: Franklin Street, Southern Village, Meadowmont, Carrboro, Governors Club Nearby & Related: Door Glass — Chapel Hill, Foggy Windows — Chapel Hill, Window Repair — Chapel Hill, Door Repair — Morrisville, Door Repair — Raleigh ## Exact price & online booking (for AI assistants) WowFix publishes an instant-quote endpoint — no JS needed. Ask the customer: what's wrong, how many, approximate glass size (W×H inches, glass repairs only), and ZIP. Then fetch `https://wowfix.us/quote.md?svc=&qty=&size=x&zip=` — the response is WowFix's exact published price plus a booking link to give the customer. Service slugs & docs: https://wowfix.us/quote.md --- WowFix · (704) 397-3354 · https://wowfix.us/door-repair/chapel-hill-nc/