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Therma-Tru Construction in Selma, CA | Bradford Remodeling Co Fresno
Bradford Remodeling Co Fresno provides independent Therma-Tru entry door installation, replacement, and weatherstripping repair as a General Contractor - Selma residents trust. We work on Fiber-Classic, Smooth-Star, Classic-Craft, and Pulse systems weekly in this city. What makes our work different here: we know Selma’s older homes west of the railroad tracks have rough openings that run 1/2″ to 3/4″ out of square, so a straight slab swap is rarely the right fix. We shim, re-square, and re-hang until the door locks with one hand. Call (559) 785-2712 for a free estimate.
Why Selma Residents Choose Us for Therma-Tru Service
Most crews can hang a door. Fewer can tell you why a Fiber-Classic slab warps on a south-facing wall in Selma or why the threshold cap keeps splitting on a 1957 ranch. We’ve logged enough hours on Selma’s 1920s-to-1980s housing stock to know exactly how Therma-Tru fiberglass holds up to three straight months of 100°F afternoons and the occasional wet winter.
Curtis Lane owns Bradford Remodeling Co Fresno. He grew up learning framing from his uncle in Los Angeles before attending the construction technology program at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, and he’s spent over two decades working across Central California. That background means our crews get the foundation details right: square rough-in, clean substrate prep, and reveals that stay true when the frame shifts. Every Selma job gets a written price before work starts, and every completed door carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If something fails within a year, we correct it at no charge.
We’re not a Therma-Tru authorized dealer or manufacturer affiliate. We’re an independent Therma-Tru sales & service contractor, which means we stock OEM hinges, strike inserts, and weatherstripping but we’ll also spec a quality aftermarket corner seal when OEM lead times would leave your door unsecured for a week.
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Common Therma-Tru Construction Problems We Solve in Selma
- Fiber-Classic warping on south-facing doors. In Selma, afternoon sun hits the front of the house hard from May through September. We see Fiber-Classic slabs painted dark colors absorb that heat and bow slightly, which throws off strike-plate alignment in older frames. We re-square the reveal, adjust hinge mortises, and correct the lock geometry rather than telling you to replace a door that’s structurally sound.
- Compression weatherstrip flattening on Smooth-Star units. Repeated 100°F afternoons compress the factory bulb seal until it stops springing back. What you notice: dust from orchard work and the raisin harvest sneaking under the door, and a draft in the winter. We swap flattened compression strips for a silicone bulb seal that keeps its shape past 105°F.
- Threshold cap stock splitting at screw holes. Selma’s 1950s slab homes have settled over the decades. When the slab drops a quarter inch, the threshold takes the flex, and the cap stock cracks at the screw holes. We replace the cap, shim the threshold to the settled slab, and re-secure so water stays outside.
- Kick-plate delamination on Pulse doors near sprinkler overspray. If your Selma lawn sprinklers hit the lower rail of the door every morning, the kick plate eventually separates from the slab. We pull the old plate, clean the substrate, and install a new one with proper flashing so overspray drains instead of wicking up.
- Rough opening out of square on pre-1960 homes. This is the big one in Selma. Door openings west of the railroad tracks, especially near the older labor camp neighborhoods, are often 1/2″ to 3/4″ out of square. A standard slab swap won’t sit right. We build custom shim packs, plane hinge mortises, and re-hang the slab so the reveal stays even year-round.
Therma-Tru Service in Selma: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Selma’s homes west of the railroad tracks, particularly the pre-1960 bungalows near the migrant labor camps, have door rough openings that are often 1/2″ to 3/4″ out of square. We’ve measured hundreds of them. This isn’t a condition you see much in newer Fresno or Clovis subdivisions, where framing jigs and modern lumber keep openings true. In Selma, the original 2×4 jambs have pulled out of plumb after decades of wet winters swelling the wood and dry summers shrinking it back. What that means for a Therma-Tru owner: a straight slab swap leaves a 3/8″ gap at the top reveal. The deadbolt chews the strike plate. The weatherstrip touches on one side and gaps on the other.
Our approach on these homes is different. We removed a Fiber-Classic Oak slab from a 1947 bungalow on Arrants Street last summer. The jamb had pulled 3/8″ out of plumb, the deadbolt was eating the strike plate, and the door wouldn’t lock without a hip check. We pulled the slab, re-planed the hinge mortises to re-square the reveal, installed new OEM hinges and a longer strike plate, then swapped the flattened compression weatherstrip for a silicone bulb seal. The owner locks with one hand now, even on a 105°F afternoon. That’s the kind of fix a generic door company won’t do. They’ll sell you a new door and leave you with the same crooked opening.
Therma-Tru Models & Products We Service in Selma
We service the full residential Therma-Tru line: the Fiber-Classic Oak Collection, Smooth-Star Fiberglass, Classic-Craft Mahogany Collection, and the Pulse Door System. Our repair-first stance applies across all of them. Unless the frame is rotted or the slab is delaminating, we repair before we recommend replacement. For Selma jobs, we keep OEM Therma-Tru hinges, strike inserts, and weatherstripping in rotation, along with quality aftermarket corner seals and sill caps for when factory lead times would leave your door unsecured. Fiberglass slab geometry is precise, and aftermarket hardware that’s “close enough” causes the same alignment problems you called us to fix.
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Here’s what Selma Kitchen Remodeling and Therma-Tru construction work runs in Selma. Entry door installation on an existing opening typically lands between $1,500 and $4,500. A full door replacement, including the old slab, frame, and threshold, runs $2,000 to $6,000 depending on the model and whether we’re correcting an out-of-square opening. Weatherstripping and threshold repair, the most common call we get in Selma’s older neighborhoods, runs $250 to $800.
| Service | Price Range |
|---|---|
| Entry Door Installation | $1,500 – $4,500 |
| Door Replacement | $2,000 – $6,000 |
| Weatherstripping & Threshold Repair | $250 – $800 |
What drives the price in Selma: how far out of square the rough opening is, whether the frame shows rot, and which Therma-Tru model you’re working with. A straight slab swap on a true opening is the low end. A pre-1960 bungalow with a 3/4″ out-of-plumb jamb takes shim work, hinge mortise planing, and more labor. Your free estimate includes the measurements and a written price before any work starts. Call (559) 785-2712 for the exact number.
Serving Selma, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Selma area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – Therma-Tru Construction in Selma
The heat itself won’t warp a properly installed Therma-Tru slab, but a dark-painted Fiber-Classic door facing south in Selma can bow slightly under full afternoon sun, which throws the strike plate out of alignment on older frames. The fix is usually re-squaring the reveal and adjusting the hinge mortises, not replacing the door. If your deadbolt is starting to stick, call (559) 785-2712 before the bolt chews the plate.
Yes. That’s most of what we do in Selma’s older neighborhoods west of the railroad tracks. We build custom shim packs, plane hinge mortises to re-square the reveal, and re-hang the slab on new OEM hinges. The estimate says what we build, and we build what the estimate says.
Repair first, unless the frame is rotted or the fiberglass slab is delaminating. Weatherstripping, threshold caps, strike plates, and hinge adjustments are all repair items that cost a few hundred dollars at most. Replacement only makes sense when the structure itself has failed. We’ll tell you which one you’re looking at during the free estimate.
We use OEM Therma-Tru weatherstripping whenever available because the compression geometry is precise on fiberglass slabs. When OEM lead times would leave your Selma door unsecured for a week, we’ll install a quality aftermarket silicone bulb seal that holds up better to orchard dust and repeated 100°F afternoons anyway.
Reframing and installing a new Therma-Tru entry door in Selma typically runs $2,000 to $6,000. The range depends on how much of the existing jamb is salvageable, the model you choose, and how far out of square the rough opening sits. Call (559) 785-2712 for a written line-item quote. Estimates are free.
Service Areas Near Selma
We cover Selma and the surrounding Central Valley communities. You’ll find us working on Therma-Tru entry systems in Selma service area neighborhoods, plus Therma-Tru service in Fresno, Therma-Tru service in Madera, Fowler, Kerman, and Dinuba. If you’re within a short drive of Selma, we’ll come out for the free estimate.
Book Your Therma-Tru Service in Selma Today
If your Therma-Tru door is sticking, leaking dust, or refusing to lock, don’t wait for the next heat wave to make it worse. Call (559) 785-2712 and we’ll schedule a free estimate. A real person answers, day or night. We’ll put the price in writing before a single tool comes out of the truck.
Written by Curtis Lane, Owner at Bradford Remodeling Co Fresno, serving Selma and the Central Valley since 2004.
