Missouri window & door repair
ShowMe Doors & Windows
We repair windows and doors. We do not sell replacements — and everything we tell you about your own windows is something you can go and check yourself.
- Main service
- Window repair
- Coverage
- All 114 counties
- Product list
- One item: repairs
- Estimate
- Free, fixed in writing
Don't take our word for it
Six things we say, and how to check each one
This is the Show-Me State, and a repair company asking to be trusted ought to make that easy. Every claim below can be tested by you, in your own house, before you let anybody quote you anything.
| What we say | How to check it yourself |
|---|---|
| Only one part of your window has failed | Open the sash. If it moves at all, the frame and glazing are doing their jobs. Lock it — if it closes, the lock works. Whatever is left is your fault, and it is usually one thing. |
| Your frame is sound even though the window feels dead | Press the frame at the sides and head. Firm timber, no give, no dark staining. That is the expensive part of a window and it is the part almost nobody needs to replace. |
| The rattle and the draught are one fault | Close the window on a strip of paper and pull. If it slides out freely, the lock is not compressing the seal. That single gap is both the noise and the cold air. |
| A new window will not fix condensation on the room side | Wipe the glass. If the moisture comes off, it was never inside the window. Replacing the unit changes nothing about the air in the room. |
| Hail can wreck a seal without breaking the pane | Think back to the last storm. Fogging that appeared across one elevation some weeks later is that, and almost nobody connects the two. |
| Repair costs a fraction of replacement | Get both quotes. We do not sell replacements, so there is nothing stopping you putting our number next to theirs. |
Five minutes, no tools
Four tests that tell you what is wrong
Between them these identify the overwhelming majority of the faults we are called out to, and they cost nothing.
Test 01
Let go of the sash halfway up
Hold it at the middle of its travel and release. If it drops, the counterweight system has failed — a parted cord on older sash, a dead balance on newer. If it holds, that is not your problem.
Test 02
The paper test, at four corners
Close the window or door on a strip of paper and pull at each corner and the middle. Where it slides out freely you have a gap. If it pulls out everywhere, the lock is the fault rather than the seal.
Test 03
Wipe the haze
If it comes off, it is condensation or dirt. If it is trapped between two panes it is a failed seal, and only the glass unit needs replacing. These look identical from across the room.
Test 04
Press the sill and the jamb bottoms
Firm thumb pressure along the timber. Anything soft, spongy or dark is water damage, and it is the one fault that is actively getting worse while the others wait.
Services
Nine services, one trade
Windows and doors are the whole business, residential and commercial, site-built and manufactured. There is nothing else on the price list.
01
Window repair
Sash cords and balances, locks, seals and hardware. Most faults are one part in a window that is otherwise sound — and you can prove that yourself.
02
Broken window & glass
Cleared and secured the same visit, then glazed once the glass is cut to your opening.
03
Emergency board-up & storm damage
Closing the building, documenting the damage, and repairing in an order that protects both the house and the claim.
04
Foggy window & seal repair
Failed sealed units replaced inside your existing sash. In Missouri this is very often the delayed bill for a hailstorm.
05
Sliding glass door repair
Rollers, tracks, panel height, latches and drainage. The lift test tells you most of what you need to know.
06
Door repair
Sticking, sagging and insecure doors, thresholds and jamb timber. Where it rubs is the diagnosis.
07
Mobile home window & door repair
Work others turn down
Manufactured-home sliders, awning windows and out-swing doors, in non-standard sizes made to fit.
08
Commercial glass & storefronts
Closers, pivots, locks and glazing, including historic brick frontages in both metros and the small towns.
09
Window screen repair
Rescreening aluminium, timber and manufactured-home frames. Hail puts holes in these most years.
In writing
What you get on paper, without asking
Four things on every estimate and every invoice we issue.
A named component
The estimate says which part failed — a cord, a balance, a keeper, a roller, a closer. Not "window needs work". If a quote will not name the part, it has not diagnosed anything.
A fixed price, before we start
Agreed in writing, and it does not move once we are working. If we think we might find rot or hidden damage, you get a price for both outcomes up front.
What we did not do, and why
Anything we looked at and left alone is listed, with the reason. That is how you know we checked it rather than missed it.
Paperwork an insurer can use
Itemised, dated and photographed where relevant, formatted to submit without anybody rewriting it.
Missouri conditions
Four things this state does to an opening
Each one changes what the right repair actually is.
Hail, most years
Missouri sits in one of the more active hail corridors in the country. The damage people notice is cracked glass and punctured screens. The damage they miss is seal failure in panes that survived the storm visibly intact and fog up months later, by which point nobody connects the two events.
Freeze-thaw, not deep freeze
Missouri does not stay frozen; it cycles above and below repeatedly. Water gets into brick stoops, patio door sills and glazing rebates, freezes, expands and thaws again. That cycling does more damage here than sustained cold would.
Brick, and what it does not do
St Louis in particular is built of brick, and a masonry opening does not flex the way a timber one does. When the building moves, the sash or the slab absorbs all of it — which is why so many windows here bind on one side while the frame looks perfect.
Two kinds of ground
Expansive clay through the north and west, limestone and karst through the Ozarks. Both move buildings, in different ways and on different timescales, and both show up at the openings before anywhere else in the house.
Coverage
Across Missouri
St Louis and the eastern metro, Kansas City and the west, Springfield and the southwest, Columbia and mid-Missouri, and the rural counties and Ozarks between them. We plan routes around distance rather than charging for it.
Questions
What people ask before they call
Do you sell replacement windows or doors?
No, deliberately. Get a replacement quote as well — we have no reason to talk you out of it, and that is rather the point.
We had hail and the glass looked fine.
Worth having checked anyway. Panes that survive intact can still have lost their seal, and that shows up as fogging months later.
The sash will not stay up.
A cord has parted or a balance has lost tension. Try the halfway test — if it drops, that is it. Routine repair, no new window.
My house is brick and the window still moved.
Masonry openings do not flex, so when a building shifts the sash absorbs it. Usually adjustable within the opening you have.
Will you come out to a mobile home?
Yes, deliberately. It is a normal part of our week and we have a page specifically for it.
We are two hours from a city.
So is a lot of Missouri. We plan routes across the state rather than treating distance as a surcharge.
Will you come out for one small job?
Yes. Screens, locks and strike plates are a normal call. Mention anything else while we are there, because most of the cost is the visit.
What if replacement really is the right answer?
We say so and tell you who to call. We do not quote it, because we do not sell it.
Next step
Tell us what it is doing
Free estimates across all 114 counties, with a fixed written price before anything is touched.