Door Repair • Lock Help
Door won't latch? Deadbolt loose? Hot air leaking around the frame? I handle door and lock repairs across Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Spring Valley, Paradise, and Enterprise.
Quick Answer: Door and lock repair in Las Vegas usually runs about $149 to $450, depending on the hardware, alignment issue, and whether the jamb or frame needs adjustment.
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Common symptoms
Pricing
| Repair | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Minor hardware or latch adjustments | about $149-$225 |
| Deadbolt, handle set, or lock replacement | about $175-$350 |
| Weatherstripping or sweep replacement | about $150-$300 |
| Frame, jamb, or alignment correction | about $250-$450+ |
Final cost depends on the door type, hardware, and whether there's hidden wear in the frame.
Local context
A lot of the door issues I see in Las Vegas come from heat, dry weather, settling, worn weatherstripping, or older hardware that's slowly pulled out of alignment. In Henderson, Summerlin, Spring Valley, Paradise, and Enterprise, the problem often starts small - a sticky latch, a loose handle, a draft - then gets worse fast if it's ignored.
I recently worked on a front door where the homeowner thought it just needed a new handle. The real issue was a shifted strike plate and loose hinge screws that had let the door sag over time. Catching that early kept it from turning into a bigger jamb repair.
The goal is to get the door closing cleanly, locking safely, and sealing the way it should without making the issue bigger or more expensive later.
What to expect
Diagnosis
A latch that misses is a symptom, not the diagnosis. Where the bolt lands tells you what moved: above or below the hole means the door has dropped or risen in the opening, short of the hole means it isn't closing far enough into the jamb, and hard against one edge means the door and frame have shifted sideways relative to each other.
That's why a new lockset on its own often doesn't solve it. If the hinges have play, or the screws spin without biting, the hardware is being asked to cover for an alignment problem it can't fix.
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Minor hardware or latch adjustments run about $149-$225, a deadbolt, handle set, or lock replacement about $175-$350, weatherstripping or sweep replacement about $150-$300, and frame, jamb, or alignment correction about $250-$450+. Final cost depends on the door type, hardware, and whether there's hidden wear in the frame.
Doors that won't latch, stick, drag, or swing open on their own; deadbolt, handle set, knob, and strike plate replacement; front door alignment and jamb adjustments; weatherstripping, sweeps, and draft reduction; and interior door hardware and privacy lock problems.
Not on its own. A single door that won't latch is a door problem until something else says otherwise — far more often the door was hung slightly off, or the hinge fastening has given up, and the latch is simply the first place you notice. If several doors and windows across the house changed at once, that's a different conversation.
Adjustment, repair, and replacement are three different answers. Adjustment is when the door and frame are sound and just need to be brought back into agreement. Repair is when something specific is damaged — the fastening has failed, a mortise is chewed out, the jamb is split. Replacement is when the slab is badly warped or the damage is severe enough that every adjustment is temporary. I'll tell you which one you have before starting.
A lot of the door issues I see in Las Vegas come from heat, dry weather, settling, worn weatherstripping, or older hardware that's slowly pulled out of alignment. The problem often starts small — a sticky latch, a loose handle, a draft — then gets worse with repeated use.
Those sit outside this service, along with master-key systems, safe locks, and specialized high-security lock work — they're locksmith specialties. What I do handle is ordinary residential door hardware: deadbolt, handle set, knob, and strike-plate replacement, interior privacy-lock fixes, and latch and strike alignment.
If your door won't close right, your deadbolt won't line up, or your entry door is letting heat in, I can help get it squared away quickly.