If a door in your Brentwood 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 Brentwood door tune-ups are done in under 90 minutes, and the door swings perfectly afterward.
Brentwood's housing mix means we see a wide range of door work — from 1920s pocket doors that need re-railing to 1990s hollow-core slabs that just need a knob swap.
Pocket doors are an Brentwood 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 Brentwood. 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 Brentwood homes have the modern 2-1/8" hole bore, so the hardware drops in clean.
Most of our Brentwood door repair calls cluster around Brentwood Glen, Mandeville Canyon, Brentwood Park — typically within a short drive of Getty Center. The Brentwood mix we see week to week leans heavy on custom built-in cabinet hinge, slide, and door repair and premium-brand hardware installation and finish-matching, which is why our Brentwood truck is always loaded with the specific tools, hardware, and finishes that the 90049 zip and the surrounding Westside neighborhoods need most. Brentwood is 25–40 minutes from our Central LA dispatch — Sunset Blvd is the fastest route, and gated-entry coordination happens 24 hours before the visit.
Homeowners in Brentwood 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.
Brentwood is 25–40 minutes from our Central LA dispatch — Sunset Blvd is the fastest route, and gated-entry coordination happens 24 hours before the visit. Every door tune-up in Brentwood 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 Brentwood 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 Brentwood's older housing stock. 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 Brentwood are typically same-day. Same-day service is available with a morning call when you call before noon. Each opening runs $95–$165 for standard hardware, $135–$235 for smart locks including app pairing.