Storefront Door Repair Cost in Los Angeles (2026)
Storefront doors take a beating. Hundreds of pushes a day, delivery carts, the odd kid swinging on the handle. When one starts acting up, the cause is almost always the closer, the pivots, the lock, the threshold or the glass, and only the glass is a big-ticket fix. Below is what we charge for each, how to spot which part has gone, and when we’d stop repairing and tell you to replace the door.
Short answer: Most storefront door repairs in Los Angeles are hardware fixes. A closer replacement with The Handy Geeks runs $120 to $280 per door, parts and labor. Pivots, locks, thresholds and alignment work bill at $105 to $195 an hour plus parts, with a $110 to $210 minimum visit. Broken glass goes to a glazier.
Last verified: October 2026
What Does Storefront Door Repair Cost?
The table shows how we price the repairs we get called for most. The closer is the only one with a flat published range, because it’s the one we do often enough to price per door. Everything else depends on what we find when the door’s open.
| Repair | What it usually fixes | How it’s priced |
|---|---|---|
| Door closer replacement | Slamming, not closing, hard to open | $120 to $280 per door, parts and labor |
| Pivot replacement | Door drags, sags or rubs the frame | Hourly labor plus the pivot set |
| Lock or latch repair | Key won’t turn, door won’t lock or latch | Hourly labor plus parts |
| Threshold or door sweep | Gaps, drafts, a door scraping the floor | Hourly labor plus parts |
| Realignment | Door rubs, binds or won’t line up with the strike | Hourly labor |
| Glass replacement | Cracked or shattered glass | Glazier’s quote |
Labor is $105 to $195 an hour, with a $110 to $210 minimum and a $20 to $95 trip charge built into the quote. After-hours work bills at 1.25x to 1.6x. See our hourly rate guide and the full door closer replacement cost breakdown.
Parts for these jobs aren’t usually the expensive bit. An aluminum offset pivot set, for example, lists at around $98 from one storefront hardware supplier. What you’re mostly paying for is the time to take the door down, swap the part and get it hanging square again.
One tip to keep the bill down: if two or three things are wrong with the same door, get them fixed on one visit. You pay one minimum instead of three, and a door that’s been realigned is less likely to wear out the new closer.
How to Tell What’s Wrong Before You Call
Stand at the door for a minute and watch it open and close. The symptom usually gives the part away.
The door drags on the floor or rubs the frame
Aluminum storefront doors hang on a pivot at the top and another at the bottom. Once the bottom one wears, the latch side of the door sinks a little and the corner starts to scrape. A door on hinges does the same thing when the hinges go. We wrote a whole guide on telling hinge, pivot and closer wear apart, because they get mixed up a lot.
It slams, or it won’t close all the way
Blame the closer. Often a small turn on its adjustment valves sorts it out. Oil on the floor under the door, or a bent arm, means the closer is done. Try the steps in our guide to why a door closer keeps slamming before paying for a new one.
It’s hard to push open
Usually a closer set too strong, and sometimes a door binding in the frame. This one matters beyond comfort. California has strict limits on how hard an accessible door can be to open, which we cover in ADA storefront door requirements and the 5-pound rule.
It won’t lock, or the key fights you
Most aluminum storefronts use a narrow-stile deadbolt. If the key is stiff, the cylinder may be worn. If the key turns but the bolt won’t go into the frame, the door has probably sagged and the bolt is hitting metal. That’s really an alignment problem.
You can see daylight under it
The sweep or the threshold is worn out. It’s a cheap fix, and it keeps out dust, water and bugs.
The glass is cracked
Don’t tape it and forget it. Door glass has to be tempered or laminated safety glass by code, and replacing it is a glazier’s job, not ours.
When We’d Tell You to Replace the Door
A worn-out part is cheap. A worn-out door isn’t, and no amount of new hardware fixes it. Replacement is worth talking about if:
- The metal around the pivots or the lock has cracked or pulled apart, so new parts have nothing solid to screw into.
- The frame is bent, usually from a vehicle or a break-in.
- You’re paying for the same repair over and over because the door is badly worn.
- The door no longer meets the code it needs to, and fixing that means new hardware anyway.
A full door and frame replacement is a glazing and construction job and costs far more than any of the repairs above, so it’s worth getting a second look before you commit. As a licensed general contractor, we can run that project and bring in the glazier.
Rules That Apply to Storefront Doors
A few code points come up on almost every storefront repair:
- Opening force. Accessible doors have to open without much effort, which is set mostly by the closer. See the 5-pound rule.
- Closing speed. ADA rules ask that a door with a closer takes at least 5 seconds to swing from 90 degrees open to 12 degrees from closed.
- Panic hardware. Some exits need a push bar instead of a lock. If yours does, see our panic bar installation cost guide.
- Safety glass. Any replacement glass in a door has to be tempered or laminated.
How We Handle Storefront Door Calls
Send us a short video of the door opening and closing, and a photo of the top and bottom corners on the hinge side. That tells us most of what we need to quote it. We schedule the work before you open or after you close. If the door won’t lock, say so: urgent calls for account clients get a scheduling confirmation within 2 to 4 hours. You get a written price before we start, timestamped photos when we finish and an itemized invoice. If your landlord or mall wants a certificate of insurance, we usually send it the same day.
Storefront doors are part of our retail store repair service in Los Angeles.
A Few Questions Store Managers Ask Us
What’s a typical storefront door repair bill?
The most common fix, a new closer, is $120 to $280 per door with parts. Anything else is time and parts: $105 to $195 an hour, $110 to $210 minimum.
Will you work after we close?
That’s when we do most storefront doors. After-hours visits are billed at 1.25x to 1.6x our normal rate, which is often still cheaper than losing a selling hour.
Repair or replace, which is cheaper?
Repair, nearly every time, if the frame and the metal around the hardware are sound. Replacement only wins once the door itself is damaged.
Do you replace storefront glass?
Not the glass itself. That’s a glazier’s job, since door glass has to be safety glazing. We handle the hardware and can coordinate the glazier as part of a bigger repair.
Got a door that’s dragging, slamming or not locking? Call +1 818-835-0556 or book online and send a quick video.