Brentwood, TN · DoorsDoor Installation and Replacement in Brentwood, TN

Doors get used more than any other part of a house, and in homes that have stood since the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, the originals show it. Interior doors are often hollow-core six-panel slabs, light enough to rattle in their frames and thin enough to let every sound through, with brass hardware worn through its plating. Front doors stick in summer and show daylight at the corners. Sliding patio doors drag on tired rollers and fog between the panes. Each is fixable, but the fix is usually a new door rather than another adjustment.

Replacing interior doors as a set is one of the more noticeable changes you can make without opening a wall. Solid-core doors in a five-panel, shaker or flat style feel substantial, quiet the space between bedrooms and bathrooms, and pair naturally with wider casings and hinges and levers in one finish throughout. Depending on the condition of the frames, the new doors are either fitted to existing jambs or installed as pre-hung units, and paint is coordinated so every door arrives at the punch list finished rather than just hung.

Exterior doors are where installation matters most. When an entry, patio or garage door comes out, we check the sill and the framing below it, because water that slips past a failed threshold rots subfloor and rim joist where no one sees it. The new unit sits on a sloped sill pan, is shimmed plumb and square, insulated around the frame and flashed into the wall. JACCO handles door installation and replacement for every opening in the house, and a door between the garage and the living space is chosen with its fire-separation rules in mind.