Rotted Sill, Caught in Time
Decay cut out completely and rebuilt in real wood — no filler, no new window.
Rotted frame at the bottom, a door that drags and gaps — restoration beats the ~$10,000 new-door pitch: frame wood rebuilt from $475, doors re-hung to swing true.
Real WowFix job in the Charlotte area — drag to see the difference.
Real WowFix job in the Charlotte area — drag to see the difference.
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Splash-back off the stoop, sprinkler drift, a summer storm a week: the bottom foot of a Charlotte door frame lives wet. When it goes soft, the trade answer is surgical — decay cut out to sound wood, a laminated piece milled to the original profile spliced in, everything sealed. From $475, and the frame outlasts the builder pine it replaces.
Dilworth and Myers Park entries were built from wood worth keeping — and even Ballantyne's builder doors usually fail at parts, not at the slab. Restoration re-hangs the sag, renews the weatherstripping, services the hardware and re-glazes the glass — the whole door brought back on one written sheet. Locks and security hardware get their own deep-dive on our Charlotte door hardware page.
Probe the wood, price the parts, rebuild in one pass.
Frame probed for rot, door cycled for geometry — the two failures travel together.
Frame wood from $475, hardware $175, glass from $198 — line by line first.
Wood spliced, hinges reset, seals renewed — most doors finish in one visit once wood is milled.
Swung, slammed and locked with you watching — written workmanship warranty.
Door repair in Charlotte is catalog-priced — in writing before we start:
Every repair comes with a written workmanship warranty. If it's not right, we come back and make it right.
We fix the part that failed — glass, seal, sash or hardware — so you keep your windows and skip full-replacement cost.
Your repair is done by our own technicians, never subcontracted — most jobs booked within days.
A clear quote before any work starts. No hidden fees, no upsells, no pressure to replace what we can repair.
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Historic entries in Fourth Ward, builder doors in Steele Creek — one bench restores them all.
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No stock footage, no actors — one of our actual Charlotte jobs: a rotted, fogged-out window brought back to flawless, like-new condition.
Take one photo of the whole door and a close-up of the trouble area — the track, the handle, the glass, or the soft wood at the bottom. It lets us quote faster and bring the right parts.
Jot down the symptom — grinds or sticks on the track, won't lock or latch, drafts around the edges, fog or cracks in the glass, soft flaking wood at the bottom. It tells us whether it's hardware, a glass-only swap (from $198), or wood work.
Move mats, planters and furniture back from both sides of the door — most door work happens from inside and outside at once, and a clear opening keeps the visit quick.
Door brands hide their stickers on the edge or hinge side. If you spot one — or still have install paperwork — set it aside. Not required, but it helps us match rollers, locks and glass on the first trip.
Unlock gates, secure pets, and clear the deck or patio path. With access to both faces of the door, nearly every repair finishes in a single visit.
Decay cut out completely and rebuilt in real wood — no filler, no new window.
We fabricate an exact-profile piece from laminated lumber and splice it in.
New glass built to the window's exact size — frame and trim untouched.
The pane is the part that failed — so the pane is the part we replace.
A failed seal, not a failed window: the sealed unit is swapped, the frame stays.
Rotted bottom rebuilt on-site — a fraction of the ~$10,000 a new door runs.
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Lead Window & Door Repair Specialist
This content is written by Eugene Ko, a master craftsman with 17+ years of hands-on experience in residential and commercial window repair. Eugene has personally completed over 15,000 window and door repairs across North Carolina, so every answer here is grounded in real field experience — not guesswork.
Last updated: July 2, 2026