Repairs
Door, Cabinet & Furniture Repair from San Francisco to San Jose
Door, cabinet, and furniture repair is billed by the hour, and most fixes take about an hour. We re-hang and plane sticking doors, replaces and adjusts cabinet hinges and drawer slides, and repairs loose furniture joints in homes from San Francisco to San Jose.
- Minimum
- 1 hour
- Typical single job
- 0.5–1 hour
- Bay Area typical price
- $120–300
- Hours
- Mon–Sun 8–8
What's included
- Doors that stick, rub, or won't latch — hinge adjustment and edge planing
- Loose or stripped hinge screws and door hardware
- Cabinet door hinges, soft-close hinges, and alignment
- Drawer slides, tracks, and drawer boxes that have come apart
- Wobbly chairs, tables, and bed frames re-glued and tightened
- Closet bifold and sliding doors back on track
What's referred out
- New door installation and pre-hung door swaps (quoted first)
- Cabinet refacing or refinishing
- Antique restoration
If a job turns out to need a licensed trade or a permit, you'll hear that at the door — not after the hour has started.
Typical jobs and time
Time ranges are what these jobs usually take; you're billed for the actual hours worked, and the price is confirmed before work starts. See pricing.
| Job | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Adjust a door that won't latch | 0.5–1 hour |
| Plane a swollen door edge and re-hang | 1–1.5 hours |
| Replace hinges on four cabinet doors | 1 hour |
| Re-glue and clamp a wobbly chair or table | 1 hour |
How it goes
Find the cause
Sticking is traced to the hinges, the frame, seasonal swelling, or house settling before anything is cut.
Adjust first
Hinges are shimmed or reset and screws replaced with longer ones — this fixes most doors without planing.
Plane or re-track if needed
Swollen edges are planed and sealed; drawers get new slides or track guides.
Tighten and finish
Hardware is tightened, moving parts are lubricated, and raw wood is sealed to stop it swelling again.
Door, Cabinet & Furniture Repair in Bay Area homes
House settling is the main reason interior doors stop closing right in older San Francisco, Burlingame, and Redwood City homes. Frames rack slightly over decades, so a door that was square in 1925 rubs at the top corner today. Most are fixed by resetting the hinges rather than cutting the door.
Fog-belt humidity swells wood doors and drawer boxes on the coast side. Planing the binding edge and sealing the raw wood keeps it from swelling again next winter.
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Door, Cabinet & Furniture Repair: questions people ask
Why won't my door latch anymore?
Usually a sagging hinge or a settled frame moved the strike plate out of line. Adjusting the hinges or moving the strike plate fixes it in under an hour.
Can you fix a drawer that falls out?
Yes. Worn slides, broken track guides, or a drawer box that has come apart at the joints are all repairable.
Do you replace cabinet hinges?
Yes, including upgrading to soft-close hinges on existing doors.
Can you repair wobbly furniture?
Yes. Loose joints are re-glued and clamped, and stripped screw holes are plugged and re-drilled.
Do you install new doors?
Pre-hung door swaps are quoted separately. Everything involving an existing door — hinges, latches, planing, alignment — is standard hourly work.
Door, Cabinet & Furniture Repair across the corridor
Available in all 14 cities. City pages cover the local housing and what comes up most there.
Request a quote for door, cabinet & furniture repair
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