Interior doors and hardware in Charlotte
Interior door replacement swaps the doors and hardware through a house, most often hollow-core six-panel or flush doors for solid-core shaker or two-panel doors, with new hinges, knobs or levers, and stops. Doors are hung to the existing frames, so the trim stays. MDO Contracting replaces interior doors and hardware across Charlotte, NC.
Doors are the one finish you touch every day. Swapping a house full of hollow-core doors for solid ones changes how the whole place sounds and feels, and it is a short job.
What the job involves
- Slab replacement into existing frames, or pre-hung doors where frames are damaged
- Solid-core and hollow-core, shaker, two-panel, five-panel and flush styles
- Hinges, knobs, levers, stops, and matching hardware through the house
- Pocket doors, barn doors and double doors where the opening allows
- Paint or stain, or factory-primed doors finished on site
How the work runs
- 01
Measure every opening
Doors in older houses are rarely one size. Each opening is measured and each door ordered to it.
- 02
Prep the doors
Hinge mortises and bores are cut to match the existing frames so the new door hangs where the old one did.
- 03
Hang and adjust
Doors hung, gaps made even, latches aligned, stops reset.
- 04
Finish
Paint or stain, hardware on, a walkthrough.
Interior doors and hardware questions
- Do the frames and trim have to change?
- Not usually. New slabs are fitted to the existing frames, which keeps the casing and the paint intact.
- Solid-core or hollow-core?
- Solid-core doors are heavier, quieter and feel better in the hand. Hollow-core is cheaper and lighter. For bedrooms and bathrooms, solid-core is worth it.
- Can you match a door that is staying?
- Yes, or the whole house can be brought to one style at once, which is the more common approach.
- Knobs or levers?
- Levers are easier to use for anyone and are the current default. Knobs suit traditional houses. Either way, one finish through the house.
- Can a swing door become a pocket door?
- If the wall beside the opening has room and no plumbing or wiring in the way. It is a wall-opening job rather than a door swap, and it gets scoped as one.
Interior doors and hardware across the Charlotte area
MDO Contracting works Charlotte and roughly 50 miles out from it.