If a door in your Los Feliz home is sticking, scraping the floor, refusing to latch, or jumping its track, Red Stag is the door-repair call. We diagnose the actual cause on arrival — usually it's the hinges or the strike plate, not the door itself — and we fix it flat-rate. Most Los Feliz door tune-ups are done in under 90 minutes, and the door swings perfectly afterward.
Los Feliz's 1920s-era homes are loaded with original pocket doors, sash-weight windows, and Spanish-revival exterior doors that need ongoing repair — not replacement. The hardware inside the wall cavity wears out, the frames split where forced entries happened decades ago, and the original wood doors warp seasonally with the LA weather.
Pocket doors are an Los Feliz specialty when the home is from the 1920s era, because they were the dominant interior-door style of that period. The hardware inside the wall cavity wears out — ball bearings fail, the track sags, the soft-close gives up — and most handyman companies refuse the work because it requires opening the wall. Red Stag does pocket-door work routinely: we cut a small drywall access panel, replace the hardware, drywall it shut, texture-match and paint.
Knob and lock swaps are the easiest door work we do in Los Feliz. A standard like-for-like knob takes 20 minutes; a smart-lock install (August, Schlage Encode, Yale Assure, Level Bolt) takes 30–40 because we pair the lock to your phone and walk you through the app before we leave. Most Los Feliz homes have the modern 2-1/8" hole bore, so the hardware drops in clean.
Most of our Los Feliz door repair calls cluster around Franklin Hills, Los Feliz Hills, Vermont Ave corridor — typically within a short drive of Griffith Observatory. The Los Feliz mix we see week to week leans heavy on sash-weight window cord and balance restoration and pocket door hardware replacement inside the wall cavity, which is why our Los Feliz truck is always loaded with the specific tools, hardware, and finishes that the 90027 zip and the surrounding Central LA neighborhoods need most. Los Feliz dispatch is 10–18 minutes from the Central LA corridor — Vermont Ave and Hillhurst access is straightforward, hillside addresses occasionally add a few minutes.
Homeowners in Los Feliz typically spend $95–$165 on a knob swap, $150–$275 on a sticking-door tune-up, $185–$385 on a screen-door install, and $275–$650 on a pocket-door re-track. Frame repair after a forced entry runs $250–$700 depending on the split.
Los Feliz dispatch is 10–18 minutes from the Central LA corridor — Vermont Ave and Hillhurst access is straightforward, hillside addresses occasionally add a few minutes. Every door tune-up in Los Feliz is flat-rate quoted before we touch the door, and we lock the price even if the diagnosis turns up something we didn't expect.
A standard sticking-door tune-up in Los Feliz runs $150–$275 flat-rate, including diagnosis, hinge or strike-plate adjustment, plane-and-paint of binding edges, and a final swing test. Most are 60–90 minute jobs.
Yes — pocket doors are common in Los Feliz's 1920s-era homes. We cut a small drywall access panel, replace the hardware inside the wall cavity, drywall it closed, texture-match and paint. Whole repair runs $275–$650 depending on hardware needed.
Yes — knob, deadbolt, and smart-lock swaps in Los Feliz are typically same-day. Same-day service is standard when you call before noon. Each opening runs $95–$165 for standard hardware, $135–$235 for smart locks including app pairing.