Lansing, Ingham County
Doors, locks & hardware in Lansing
12 completed Lansing jobs are doors, screens and hardware — the quiet, constant work a rented property actually needs.
Doors, locks & hardware in Lansing, specifically
Doors are the least glamorous thing on this website and in Lansing they are one of the largest blocks of completed work behind plumbing and trash removal. The reason is the housing stock. A door in an occupied let is opened and shut far more often than the same door in an owner-occupied house, so hinges pull out of soft frames, strike plates wear oval, and screens go through. Almost every one of these twelve arrived as a line on somebody else’s list rather than as its own call-out — a broken screen alongside a leaking tap, a back door that would not close alongside a maintenance list — and that is exactly how this work should be bought. Six doors seen in one visit costs meaningfully less per door than six separate visits, and Lansing is the town where there are usually six.
On the Lansing record
- a door that would not close, made to close
- back door hinges, an entry door and its numbers, and a door secured
- a side screen door follow-up, and a broken screen door replaced
- bathroom vanity doors
- a broken basement window and a bedroom window
Everything else this company does in Lansing is on the Lansing page, and the full explanation of this work — what it involves, what decides the price and where it stops — is on Carpentry.
Where this stops
When it is not a handyman job
This is at the top of the page rather than the bottom because getting it wrong costs you a wasted visit. Insured, and no contractor licence is claimed or implied — the Michigan residential builder licence is not held.
- Automatic and powered door operators are not taken on.
- Fire-rated door assemblies are only worked on where the repair keeps the rating intact; anything that would not is referred.
- Structural alteration of an opening — moving or widening it — is licensed builder scope and is not taken on.
What it costs
There is no price list for this, and here is what actually decides the number.
The same three words describe a twenty-minute job and a two-day one. Rather than publish a figure that is wrong for one of them, here is what moves it — so you can work out roughly which end of it you are at before anybody comes out.
Whether the door itself is sound. Re-hanging an existing door and supplying a new slab are different numbers.
Whether the frame is square, and what caused it not to be. A settled frame is a bigger conversation than a dropped hinge.
Interior or exterior. An exterior door carries weather stripping, a threshold and a lock, and it has to be right in both seasons.
How many. Six doors in one visit is a different price per door from one door on its own, and that is where most of the saving on this work is.
Commercial hardware, which is heavier, ordered rather than stocked, and has to keep working several hundred times a day.
How to get a real number
Somebody comes out, looks at it properly, and you get a fixed price in writing with the work set out line by line and the exclusions written down as plainly as the inclusions. Coming out to do that is not charged for, and neither is working out what is wrong. If something is found once a wall or a floor is open, it is priced as a written change order and you decide before the work carries on rather than after it is billed. Materials are supplied at cost with the receipt attached, first-time customers get 10% off labour, and labour carries a one-year craftsmanship warranty.
If this is happening right now
What to do in the next five minutes, and what happens when you ring.
Before anybody arrives
- Photograph the gap. Stand back, shut the door as far as it will go, and photograph where it is catching — top corner, bottom corner or the latch side tells us most of it.
- Check whether the hinge screws are loose before anybody comes. A long screw into the stud fixes a surprising share of these and costs nothing.
- If it is a lock and you are locked out, that is a locksmith today rather than us — we replace and re-key locks, we do not open them.
Call the business line
(517) 505-7135Answered Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 18:00. There is no out-of-hours line and this page is not going to invent one — outside those hours, leave a message with the address and what is happening, and it is picked up in the morning.
On the call you get asked what is happening, what else in the building is affected, and whether it is still getting worse. That is how it gets decided whether this is our job at all — and if it is not, you get told that on the phone rather than after somebody has driven out.
- No trip charge
- No call-out fee or minimum
- No diagnostic fee
- No charge for a return visit
True across all 84 written quotes this company has issued. Most contractors in this market charge to turn up.
Or send the detailsWhen the right answer is not this company
- You can smell gas
- Leave the building and call the utility from outside. Not us, and not later.
- Water you cannot stop
- Your main shut-off first, then a licensed plumber. Every minute of this one costs money.
- Sewage backing up, or several fixtures at once
- A licensed plumber with a camera. That is the shared line, not a fixture, and a cable down one sink will not touch it.
- Sparking, scorching or a burning smell at an outlet or a panel
- Breaker off, and a licensed electrician. Electrical work here is repair and like-for-like replacement, and this is neither.
- No heat, or heating and cooling equipment that has failed
- A licensed mechanical contractor. That trade is not offered here at all, and knowing that in one phone call is worth more than a visit.
Two questions worth answering before you call
Have you actually repaired a door or a lock in Lansing?
Yes, and here is the Lansing record that bears on it directly: a door that would not close, made to close; back door hinges, an entry door and its numbers, and a door secured; a side screen door follow-up, and a broken screen door replaced; bathroom vanity doors; a broken basement window and a bedroom window. Alongside that, 185 jobs have been completed and invoiced in Lansing across every trade.
What does a door or lock repair cost in Lansing?
There is no rate card and there is no Lansing surcharge. What sets the price is the job rather than the postcode — whether the door itself is sound. Re-hanging an existing door and supplying a new slab are different numbers. Somebody comes out and looks, and you get a fixed price in writing with the exclusions listed as plainly as the inclusions. There is no trip charge to reach Lansing, no call-out minimum and no diagnostic fee, so finding out what it costs costs nothing.
Doors, locks & hardware in Lansing?
Send the address and what is happening and somebody will come and look. No trip charge to reach Lansing, no call-out minimum, and a fixed price in writing before anything starts.