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Doors in Plantation are mostly old enough that the hardware has outlived its fittings. A deadbolt that needs a shove, a knob that turns without retracting anything, a latch buried under six coats of paint, a strike plate screwed into trim that gave up years ago - none of those call for a new door. They call for the plate to be moved, the screws to reach real framing and the cylinder to be re-pinned or replaced, all of it written down and priced line by line before we start.
We cover both Plantation zip codes - 33317 on the eastern side with the Broadview Park pocket beside it, and 33324 through central Plantation and the Jacaranda neighbourhoods. Entry handlesets, deadbolts, cylinders and rekeys, interior levers, bathroom privacy latches, hinge repairs on doors that have dropped, strike plate alignment, and closers on garage and utility entries are the day-to-day here. Several of them at one address in one visit is how most Plantation owners buy it, and it is the sensible way round.
Gold Hands Miami is insured - handing over the keys to your house is not a thing to do on trust alone. What we do not do is the structural half. A new exterior door, a widened or re-framed opening, impact-rated replacement work and anything that needs a permit pulled is a licensed contractor's job, and in this zip code that could be the City of Plantation or unincorporated Broward County depending on which side of the line you are on. Access control wired into a building's own system is likewise its contractor's, not ours.
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Every job gets a free written estimate with the scope, prep and materials named — not a vague day rate. Gold Hands Miami is insured. Work that legally requires a licensed trade is referred to a licensed pro.
Broadview Park and the tired jambs of Plantation 33317
The modest ranch houses through 33317 mostly went up between the 1950s and the 1970s, and their door frames are the oldest thing in the job. Six decades of screws going into the same holes leaves soft, chewed timber that no longer grips, which is why a deadbolt here so often has a shoulder - the strike plate has crept, the bolt is landing on its edge instead of dropping into the pocket, and you end up lifting the door by the handle to make the key turn. Filing the hole bigger is the wrong answer and a common one. The plate gets repositioned where the bolt actually arrives, and its screws get long enough to bite the framing behind the jamb rather than the trim in front of it.
How much sound wood is left is the thing that decides which repair you are buying, so tell us the age of the house when you call (786) 788-8714 and send a photograph looking straight into the frame. Where the timber still holds, it is a plate and longer screws and the door is solid again. Where the jamb has been broken into at some point, or the screw holes have been redrilled twice already, the honest fix is a reinforcement plate that spans the damage and spreads the load across sound wood either side. Both are hardware work. Replacing the frame itself is not, and we will say which one you have before quoting rather than after.
Jacaranda and the painted-shut doors of central Plantation
In the 1970s and 1980s houses through 33324, the commonest interior complaint is not a broken latch at all. It is paint. A door that has been rolled over four or five times across forty years carries a real thickness of it on the edge, and more of it has run into the strike mortise, so the latch meets a soft ledge rather than a clean hole. The symptom is a door that needs a hip to close and springs back open if you let it. The repair is careful scraping of the mortise and the strike opening back to metal and clean timber, then a small adjustment to the plate. No sanding of the door, no repaint, no dust through the house.
The other 1970s inheritance is brass. A great deal of the original hardware here was lacquered brass, and inland heat and humidity finish that lacquer off from the inside, so it goes blotchy and dark in patches while the lock underneath still works perfectly. That is a cosmetic decision rather than a repair, and worth separating in your head before you spend: you can re-pin a perfectly good cylinder and keep it, or change the visible trim and keep the same lock function. Where a house has been updated in phases and the hardware is now three different finishes, we will tell you which of them can be matched by trim alone and which needs the whole set changed.
One visit, several doors, and the HOA side of Plantation
The typical Plantation booking covers a few different things in one go - a couple of hours to half a day across a bathroom, a bedroom and the living area. That happens to suit these houses, which are single-storey with the doors close together, and it suits the work, because strike plates, latches, hinges and cylinders draw on the same box of parts. Photograph each door before you call, include the hinge side as well as the handle, and we can arrive with the right backsets and screw lengths instead of discovering them. It is the difference between finishing a list and booking a second visit for the last item on it.
The golf-course and gated communities in central Plantation add one step and only one. Where the association keeps a contractor list, our names go on it; where the gate wants an insurance certificate on file, it goes to the management office when you book. Anything facing the street may also be governed by the community's rules on appearance, which affects the style and finish of a front handleset but never the cylinder inside it or anything on the inside face of the door. Check the documents before you buy a handle, not after it is in the hallway.
Neighborhoods and ZIP codes we cover in Plantation
Door Repair & Installation in Plantation — questions we get asked
What will door and lock work in Plantation cost me?
You will have a free written quote before a screwdriver comes out, and it is built from the doors themselves rather than a rate card. What goes into it: how many openings, whether each one is an adjustment or a part, whether a lock is being re-pinned or replaced, and who is supplying the hardware. Each door appears as its own line. If the photographs turn out to have hidden something - a broken jamb, a door that is not what it looked like - we show you and re-quote before carrying on.
Who comes to the house, and can I trust him with the locks on my Plantation home?
You get a named technician from our own team, not an anonymous contractor bid out to the lowest number. The company holds insurance. On lock work we would rather over-explain that than have you wonder. New keys go into your hand at the end of the visit and we keep none, and we will send the insurance paperwork ahead of time to anyone who asks for it.
My Plantation community has an architectural committee. Will it hold up my door hardware?
Only for what the street can see. A front entry handleset in an unusual style or finish can fall under the community's appearance rules, so read the documents before ordering one - that is a short conversation with the office rather than a long one. Everything else moves at your pace: interior levers, latches, strike plates, hinges, closers and rekeying are all invisible from the kerb. Where a gate wants our certificate of insurance or a name on a contractor list, we handle that when the appointment is made.
Bought a 1960s house in Plantation. Should the old locks be replaced or just rekeyed?
Rekeyed, if they are sound, and plenty of that era's hardware still is. Re-pinning changes what key opens the lock while leaving the lock on the door, so the previous owner's keys are dead by the afternoon. The exception in houses of this age is real and worth knowing: a lot of them have a keyed knob and no deadbolt at all, and a spring latch on its own is not security. That is the one case where we will suggest adding hardware rather than just re-keying what is there.
I rent in Plantation. What is my landlord going to notice afterwards?
Adjustments leave nothing to notice. Moving a strike, easing a painted mortise, tightening a dropped hinge - these use what is already fitted and the door simply starts working. A handle swap can leave a different footprint on the face, so in a tenancy we match the existing pattern where we can and bag the original hardware for the end of the lease. Changing a cylinder in a rented home needs the owner's approval first, and the new key goes to whoever the lease says holds one.
Does the Broadview Park part of 33317 count as Plantation for booking?
For us, yes - we cover the whole zip code and it makes no difference to scheduling. It does matter for anything that needs a permit, because Broadview Park is unincorporated Broward County rather than the City of Plantation, so the paperwork goes to a different desk. Since permitted work is a licensed contractor's job in either case, the practical upshot is only this: tell us your address and we will tell you which authority a given project would answer to before you commit to it.
Why does my door stick more in the summer?
Wood doors and frames absorb humidity and swell during Miami's rainy season, causing sticking that often eases up in drier months. We plane or adjust the door so it clears the frame year-round instead of only fixing it temporarily.
Can you fix a door that won't latch?
Yes — usually a misaligned strike plate or a settling frame. We adjust the plate position or the hinges so the latch catches cleanly again.
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Need door repair & installation in Plantation?
Send photographs of the job to (786) 788-8714 and a written quote comes back naming the scope and the materials. The quote costs nothing, and nothing reaches the invoice that was not on it.