Door and window repair in Menlo Park

Door fixes for Felton Gables ranch houses

The 127 houses of Felton Gables are small single-family ranch homes from the 1930s and 1940s, built on what was Senator Charles Norton Felton's 1870s estate, and the City describes the neighborhood as entirely detached single-family homes. In houses of that vintage, interior doors have usually been painted many times, and paint buildup on the edges and in the hinges is a common reason a door binds.

The fix is usually small: sand or plane the painted edge, snug or shim the hinges, shift the strike, and hang a new prehung interior door only when the old one is split or warped. Sliders that drag get fresh rollers and a scrubbed track, and windows get new locks or cranks and re-meshed screens in their existing frames. Drafty exterior doors can get new weatherstripping on the same visit.

Worth knowing about Menlo Park

• The City's neighborhood profiles place about 40 percent of South of Seminary-Vintage Oaks and about 15 percent of Suburban Park in a FEMA flood hazard area; Sharon Heights and Downtown are not.
• Palo Alto's NOAA normals station, the closest with temperature data, averages summer highs of 78.8F and winter lows of 39.7F, with 15.1 inches of precipitation a year.
• Menlo Park has 13,388 housing units; 70.3% predate 1980, 7.1% were built in 1939 or earlier, and the 1950s produced the most of any decade, 23.2%.