Emergency door repair & replacement in Rockville, MD

This is the callout for when the door itself is the casualty: forced in a break-in, split at the frame by a slam or a storm, dropped off a hinge, warped until the bolt no longer reaches. Tonight's work is not a beautiful new door — it is a door, or an opening, that locks. The finish work can happen in daylight.

What this covers

Doors damaged in a burglary or an attempt, at homes and businesses both. Split frames and torn-out strike plates. Hinges ripped from the wood. Doors so swollen or dropped that the deadbolt misses its hole. Locks mangled by a forced-entry attempt. And where the door cannot be made good tonight, boarding and temporary securing that holds until a proper replacement is fitted in daylight.

How the callout goes

1. Call and describe what happened and what the door still does — closes but will not lock, hangs open, gone at the frame.
2. If it was a break-in: police first. We work after they have seen it, never before.
3. The cost of making it secure is agreed on the phone before the van moves.
4. On site, the door is repaired where the door and frame allow — frame rebuilt and reinforced, hinges refixed, new lock and strike — or the opening is boarded and secured where they do not.
5. You are left with a property that locks, and a plain account of anything that remains for daylight.

What we bring

• Lumber, boarding and fixings for openings that cannot be made good tonight
• Replacement locks, deadbolts and strike hardware
• Repair plates and screws long enough to reach the framing — the strength a split jamb has lost
• Lighting and power tools, because this work never happens next to a good porch light

When to call straight away — and what not to do

Any door that will not lock with people sleeping behind it is a now problem. So is a business door that will not secure with stock inside. If it is a break-in: 911 or the non-emergency line first, photographs second, us third — and touch as little as possible until the police have been. One thing above all: do not screw or nail a damaged door shut from the inside if it is your only way out. A fire does not care why the exit is fastened.

After the property is secure

A forced door raises forced questions. If keys were taken, or could have been, rekey: a residential lock change for a home, or the commercial locks side for a business. If a yard gate went in the same incident, gate repair runs on the same emergency line, the same night. And remember that a board-up is a bridge, not a fix — book the permanent door work in daylight, when doors can be matched and hung properly.