If a door in your Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica door tune-ups are done in under 90 minutes, and the door swings perfectly afterward.
Santa Monica'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 Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica. 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 Santa Monica homes have the modern 2-1/8" hole bore, so the hardware drops in clean.
Most of our Santa Monica door repair calls cluster around North of Montana, Sunset Park, Pico Boulevard corridor — typically within a short drive of Santa Monica Pier. The Santa Monica mix we see week to week leans heavy on salt-air-accelerated hardware corrosion replacement and exterior caulk failure on ocean-facing exposures, which is why our Santa Monica truck is always loaded with the specific tools, hardware, and finishes that the 90401 zip and the surrounding Westside neighborhoods need most. Santa Monica is 30–45 minutes from our Central LA dispatch — same-day or next-day service is standard, with morning calls scheduled before the 10 freeway gridlock builds up.
Homeowners in Santa Monica 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.
Santa Monica is 30–45 minutes from our Central LA dispatch — same-day or next-day service is standard, with morning calls scheduled before the 10 freeway gridlock builds up. Every door tune-up in Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica'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 Santa Monica 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.