Interior Door Replacement in Wilmington, DE
- Pre-Hung or Slab
- Bifold, Sliding and Hinged Closet Doors
- Barn Doors Hung on Solid Blocking
Tell us which rooms, and whether a closet should become a barn door.
Interior doors take a beating nobody notices until one stops latching, a bifold jumps its track for the tenth time, or the hollow-core doors the house came with start to look as tired as they sound. Replacing them changes how a room looks, sounds and works every day.
We replace interior doors and hang barn doors. Each door is hung by Jimmy Grubb and his son and fitted to the opening you actually have: the jamb, the floor under it, and the wall beside it.
Door Work You Can Check Up On
Barn doors in about a day
Old bifolds out, track up, and the new door rolling by the end of it.
Bottoms trimmed room by room
Each door is cut to clear the floor it swings over.
Trim made good around the opening
Casing is reset or replaced where it needs it, so the door looks like it belongs there.
Which Kind of Door Does the Opening Need?
How a door hangs controls what replacing it involves. Hinges need a sound jamb, closet doors need a straight track, and a barn door needs solid wood above the opening to carry its whole weight.
Passage doors between rooms
A bedroom, bath or hall door swings on hinges in a wood frame called the jamb. Replacing one means either a slab, the door alone hung on the existing jamb, or a pre-hung unit, a new door already mounted in its own new jamb. The door itself can be hollow-core or solid-wood fixed-panel. Shaker style, with flat recessed panels and square edges, is one of the styles we hang.
Closet doors: bifold, sliding and hinged
Bifolds fold in half on a top track and a pivot at the floor, which opens the whole closet but leaves more moving parts to wear out than the other two. Sliding bypass doors run past each other on an overhead track, so only half the closet is open at a time. A hinged pair swings out like room doors and needs floor space in front of it. When closet doors keep coming off their tracks, the fix may be new hardware or a different system altogether.
Barn doors
A barn door hangs from rollers on a steel track mounted on the wall above the opening and slides along the wall to open. People are replacing bifold closet doors with barn doors, and they work just as well on a pantry, an office, or a wide hall opening. The track carries the full weight of the door, so it has to be screwed into solid wood along its whole length. That is why a barn door install includes header blocking: a board fastened into the framing above the opening to carry the track.
Slab or pre-hung, read from the jamb
Jimmy reads the existing jamb. If it is square and solid and the hinge mortises line up, a slab can be fitted to it, and the old casing stays in place. If it is out of square, split or worn at the strike, or the opening is changing size, a pre-hung unit is the cleaner job, because the door and frame arrive already matched.
Pre-hung doors vs. slab doorsPlaster walls around Wilmington door openings
On a Wilmington plaster wall, the casing around each door is nailed over the plaster at the jamb edge. Taking that casing off can break the plaster edge it covered, and that edge then needs patching before new trim goes on. A slab hung on a sound existing jamb leaves the casing where it is. A pre-hung unit comes with its own jamb, so the old jamb and casing come out. On a plaster wall, a square, solid jamb makes a strong case for a slab. Weight adds a second check: a solid door is far heavier than the hollow-core one it replaces, so the hinge screws have to reach sound framing behind the jamb.
Patching a plaster edge like that is part of the work we do on walls and ceilings.
Drywall and plaster repairEach Door, Fitted to Its Own Opening
Your call or text
Let Jimmy know which rooms you're thinking about and what you have in mind: room doors, closets, a barn door, or a mix.
Measure at the estimate
Jimmy measures each opening and checks the jambs for square and for solid wood at the hinges. He also looks at the floor and at the wall space beside any barn door opening.
Pick the doors
You choose the door style and the hardware. If you already have a door in mind, bring it up here.
Installation day
Old doors are removed, and jambs are repaired or replaced as needed. Then the new doors are hung, planed, and fitted.
Doors swung and latched with you
Jimmy opens and closes each door with you and checks that the latch catches and the bottom clears the floor. Any barn door is rolled the full length of its track to the stop.
The Door Job, Opening to Casing
| Door or task | What happens | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-hung interior door | Old door and jamb out, new unit set plumb and shimmed | Suits a jamb that is worn or out of square |
| Slab door on the existing jamb | New door cut, mortised and hung on the old frame | Keeps the original casing |
| Bifold closet doors | Replaced with new doors, track and pivots | Or swapped for a barn door |
| Sliding bypass closet doors | New doors on a new overhead track | Opens half the closet at a time |
| Hinged closet doors | Hung as a single or a pair | Needs swing room in front |
| Barn door | Header board, track, door, floor guide | Needs clear wall beside the opening |
| Door casing and trim | Where needed | Checked at the estimate |
| Knobs, latches and hinges | Where needed | Your choice of finish |
| Painting or staining the doors | Not included | Hung ready for your painter |
We don't paint walls, ceilings or trim. New doors and trim are hung ready for your painter.
Already bought the fixture or the material? We can usually install it, as long as it suits the job. On customer-supplied materials, our warranty covers the labor only.
Door Prices and the Choices Behind Them
- Door
Barn door, installed
Price$1,200 to $3,000 - Door
Interior passage door
PricePriced by the door at the estimate - Door
Closet doors (bifold, sliding or hinged)
PricePriced by the door at the estimate
A solid door costs more than a hollow-core one. Replacing the jamb along with the door adds material and the labor to set it. The count comes next: one door on a sound frame is the light end, and a whole floor of solid doors with new casing is a large one. Openings that don't match stock sizes and damaged jambs add carpentry.
Jimmy prices every project in person at your home, never from a photo or a text. Project estimates are free and are usually scheduled in the evening.
Our warranty
Our work carries a one-year workmanship warranty, dated from the day the job is finished.
Closet and Door Work Reviewed Near Wilmington
A closet with doors that wouldn't operate
BC, Google review, August 2026
“Jimmy of Prevision Home Worx did an absolutely amazing job remodeling my closet. The closet was a wreck with doors that wouldn’t operate, missing molding, decades old paint.”
A meticulous, on-time owner
Russell Sweeney, Google review, July 2025
“The owner is a meticulous worker, always on-time, charges a fair price and takes such ownership of his final work product. Stop searching for help on your home projects. You found it in Precision Home Worx!”
More reviews from our customers, straight from Google.
Choosing Doors That Fit How You Live
It can be, if the wall beside the closet has room for the door to slide open. A barn door has no track on the floor to catch socks and no hinges to sag. It also hangs slightly off the wall, so it does not seal the opening the way a hinged door does. For a closet, that is a fair trade. For a bathroom, think about privacy first.
Hollow-core doors are light and cost less, and they suit a closet or a low-traffic room. Solid doors cut down on sound between rooms, hold up better to knocks, and swing with more weight. Bedrooms and bathrooms are where the difference is easiest to hear.
After, or at least measured after. A new floor can raise the height under every door, and a door fitted to the old floor may drag on the new one. If the doors go in first, tell Jimmy what flooring is coming so he leaves the right gap.
The hinge side of its jamb is out of plumb, so gravity pulls the door one way. A jamb that has moved with the framing as a house settles can also make a door bind at a top corner or gap at the latch. Sometimes a hinge can be shimmed to bring the door back; a jamb that has moved too far is reset, or replaced with a pre-hung unit. Jimmy checks each problem door with a level at the estimate.
The door sits loose against its stop, so air moving through the house knocks it back and forth. Moving the stop or the strike plate slightly can fill the gap in a door that is otherwise sound. A light door that keeps rattling is also a reason some people switch to solid doors, which sit more firmly in the frame.
Yes. New closet doors go on the existing opening, and the shelves and rods inside stay as they are. If you also want shelving or a closet built out, that is carpentry work we do as well, and it can be priced at the same visit.
How Many Doors Are Ready to Go?
Walk the house once and count every door that sticks or won't latch, every closet door that comes off its track, and any opening you'd like as a barn door. Then call or text Jimmy with that number.
Precision Home Worx · Based in Claymont, DE · (302) 321-3577 (call or text) · Monday through Sunday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Delaware business license #223872998 · General liability insurance and RLI surety bond #LMS1971327
Serving Wilmington, Claymont, North Wilmington, Hockessin, Pike Creek, Greenville, Newark, New Castle, Bear and the rest of northern Delaware.
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Interior, closet and barn doors across Wilmington, North Wilmington, Claymont, Hockessin, Pike Creek, Greenville, Newark and Bear.
