Screen Door Repair in Columbus, Ohio

Transit & Flow Group repairs existing screen doors across Columbus and Central Ohio: bent or damaged frames, torn or sagging screen mesh, worn closers, and failing hardware. This page is specifically about fixing a screen door you already have, not installing a new storm door unit, which is a separate project on our Storm Door Installation page, and not window screen repair, which addresses the screens in your window openings rather than a door on its own frame. Describe what’s wrong with your screen door and send photos through the Estimate Builder for a preliminary online estimate.

Is this what you’re seeing?

Screen Door Repair covers the common ways a screen door fails with age and use:

• Torn, punctured, or sagging screen mesh, often from pets, weather, or general wear over a season or two.
• A bent or racked frame, common after a screen door is caught by wind or bumped hard while open.
• A closer that slams the door, doesn’t close fully, or has stopped working, whether pneumatic or spring-type.
• Loose or broken hinges, causing the door to sag or drag against the frame.
• A latch or lock that no longer catches, often from frame movement or worn hardware.
• A rolling or sliding screen door off its track, or a track that’s bent or full of debris.

If you’re dealing with a torn or damaged screen in a window itself rather than a door, that’s a different repair on our Window Screen Repair page, since window screens sit in a sash rather than a swinging or sliding door frame. And if what you actually want is a full storm door, a heavier unit with glass or screen panel inserts that swaps out seasonally, that’s a new installation covered on our Storm Door Installation page rather than a repair to what you already have. It’s an easy mix-up since both sit in a similar spot on the house, but a screen door repair and a storm door installation are different scopes with different pricing.

How pricing works

Screen Door Repair is fixed pricing per repair type, since a mesh rescreen and a frame straightening are different jobs even on the same door.

• Per-repair fixed pricing. Mesh replacement, frame repair or straightening, closer replacement, and hinge or latch hardware repair are each priced individually.
• What changes the price: door size, mesh type (standard fiberglass versus pet-resistant or solar mesh), whether the frame needs straightening versus full section replacement, and whether the closer or track hardware needs full replacement rather than adjustment.
• Rescreening versus full door replacement. Most screen door problems are solved with mesh, hardware, or frame repair rather than a whole new door. When damage is extensive enough that replacement makes more sense, we’ll say so with numbers for both paths.
• Sliding versus swinging screen doors. Track-mounted sliding screens are priced somewhat differently than hinged swinging screen doors, since the failure points and repair methods differ.

As general market context, not a Transit & Flow quote, HomeAdvisor’s 2025 data lists screen door repair typically between about $100 and $300, with full rescreening toward the lower end and frame or closer replacement toward the higher end. Enter your screen door’s size, material, and photos in the Estimate Builder for a preliminary online estimate. Final scope and price subject to verification on site.

What’s included

• Diagnosis of frame, mesh, hardware, and closer condition
• Mesh replacement in your choice of standard, pet-resistant, or solar screening
• Frame straightening or section repair where the frame is bent or cracked
• Closer replacement or adjustment for proper, controlled closing
• Hinge, latch, and track hardware repair or replacement as needed
• All workmanship is backed by a 1-year labor warranty on labor, parts, and equipment covered per manufacturer terms.

What’s not included

• Window screen repair, covered on our Window Screen Repair page
• New storm door installation, covered on our Storm Door Installation page
• Full screen door replacement where the existing door is damaged beyond repair, quoted as its own project
• Structural repair to the door frame it’s mounted to, covered on our Door Frame Repair page if that’s a separate issue
• Structural repair to the surrounding opening, handled by appropriately qualified professionals where required

Screen doors and Central Ohio seasons

Screen doors take a specific kind of abuse in Central Ohio because they’re used hardest exactly when the weather’s nicest. Spring and summer wind gusts are a leading cause of bent frames and popped hinges, especially on doors without a working closer to control how hard they swing open. Central Ohio’s humidity swings also affect wood-frame screen doors specifically, causing seasonal swelling that can strain hinges and hardware over years of use, similar to what happens with solid entry doors but often noticed later since screen doors see lighter daily use.

Homes in older, tree-lined neighborhoods like Clintonville and Bexley often have original wood-frame screen doors that are worth repairing rather than replacing, since matching an original profile on a new door is harder than fixing what’s there. Newer aluminum-frame screen doors common in Dublin, New Albany, and similar suburbs tend to hold their shape better but see more mesh damage from pets and kids, making rescreening the most common repair in those neighborhoods.

Our process

1. Describe what’s wrong with your screen door (mesh, frame, closer, hardware) and send photos through the Estimate Builder for a preliminary online estimate.
2. We confirm this is screen door repair rather than a window screen or storm door installation project, and point you to the right page if not.
3. On-site inspection of frame, mesh, and hardware condition before finalizing scope.
4. Repair work: rescreening, frame straightening, or hardware replacement as needed.
5. Final check: the door is opened and closed repeatedly to confirm the closer, latch, and hinges all work smoothly together.

Services completed by appropriately qualified professionals where required.

Related services

Window Screen Repair | Storm Door Installation | Door Hardware

A working screen door is a small comfort that makes a big difference on a nice Central Ohio evening. Get a preliminary online estimate in the Estimate Builder, book service online, or call Transit & Flow at (614) 382-0000.