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It starts as a faint brown patch on the drywall beside the door, about the size of a loonie. You wipe it, it comes back

Most people think about the lock when they think about door security. A good deadbolt feels reassuring. But a good deadbolt can sit in a

It’s 10:40 on a Saturday. There’s a queue at the counter, someone has wedged a box of printer paper against the front door to stop

Nearly every house has one handle everybody has learned to live with. It wobbles. Maybe it droops when you let go of it. The deadbolt

Nobody wakes up to a broken door. It creeps up on you. First you shoulder it a bit in February. Then the bedroom window takes

It’s the middle of winter and the thermostat says 21°C. You’re still on the sofa in a sweater, woolly socks and a blanket. You nudge

A door that doesn’t quite work is easy to live with. You pick up the trick: lift the handle, hip-check the bottom corner, wedge it

Most people don’t really look at a door until it quits on them. Before that it just hangs there, swinging open and shut forty times

A homeowner in Bedford called us last February because the hallway in his house was always cold. The furnace was working, the ducts were fine,

Your garage door is basically a giant hole in the side of your house. Nobody thinks of it that way until January, when the attached

Ask anyone who’s tried to fit a store-bought door into a South End house and you’ll get a story. The opening turns out to be

You never see salt air doing anything, which is exactly why it gets away with so much. No crack, no bang. Just a hinge that’s

Walk into any hardware store and you’ll see the same hinge in three price tiers, five dollars, fifteen dollars, forty dollars, sitting right next to

Same time every year, the calls start rolling in. A door that latched fine back in October suddenly won’t catch. A front door that closed

Somebody always asks this right after deciding they need new windows, and fair enough, it’s a reasonable thing to want to know before you commit

Somewhere along the way, “my window’s acting up” turned into “guess I need all new windows” for a lot of homeowners, and that jump isn’t

Somewhere along the way, “my window’s acting up” turned into “guess I need all new windows” for a lot of homeowners, and that jump isn’t

A fire door gets its rating from the entire assembly, not just the door slab. The hinges, closer, latch and seals all have to be

Fire doors take a beating nobody really thinks about. They get propped open with whatever’s lying around, banged into by carts, scraped up during a

If you’ve run a business in Halifax for a while, you’ve probably dealt with a door that suddenly decides it doesn’t want to cooperate. Commercial