Mezuzah house calls
MEZUZAH
HOUSE CALLS
We come to your home, carefully remove and inspect each mezuzah. We also make sure every mezuzah in your home is properly placed according to halacha before securely reinstalling it.
One appointment. Nothing left for you to do.
We handle the entire process from removing each mezuzah through inspection, reporting, proper placement, and reinstallation.
WE REMOVE
Every mezuzah is carefully taken down and labeled so we know exactly which doorway it came from.
WE INSPECT
Each klaf is removed from its case and examined letter by letter under magnification for cracks, fading, touching letters, and other issues.
WE REPORT
You receive a placement report for the home and a quality report for every klaf we inspect, including anything that needs attention or replacement.
WE REINSTALL
We review every doorway in the home, including doorways that may be missing a mezuzah, and make sure each mezuzah is reinstalled in the proper halachic location.
What gets checked
Four things go wrong with a mezuzah. We look at all four.
People assume a mezuzah is either kosher or it isn't. In practice, most of what we find is damage that developed quietly over years — and almost none of it is visible through the case.
Ksav and kashrus
Every klaf comes out of its case and is read by a sofer under magnification. Ink cracks and flakes with age, and a single letter that has split or closed up can render the whole klaf pasul.
- Missing, broken, or touching letters
- Cracked and flaking ink
- Letters formed incorrectly to begin with
- The letters on the reverse side
Damage to the klaf
Heat, cold, and moisture do most of the destroying. Front doors, garage entries, basements, and doorposts in direct sun are where we find the worst of it.
- Moisture, mold, and staining
- Fading and heat warping
- Tearing and holes at the fold
- Klaf stuck to the inside of the case
What it's sitting in
A beautiful case can be the reason a klaf is ruined. Sealed cases trap condensation, loose ones let water in, and outdoor doors need protection most cases don't provide.
- Case fit, seal, and drainage
- Waterproofing for outdoor doorposts
- Double-wrapping where required
- Cracked or broken cases replaced
Where it's hanging
A perfectly kosher klaf on the wrong doorpost isn't doing its job. We review every doorway in the house and correct placement while we're there.
- Side, height, and angle for that doorway
- Doorways that need one and don't have one
- Doorways that never needed one
- Loose, rattling, or badly mounted cases
Why the house call matters
A kosher klaf in the wrong spot is still a problem.
A mezuzah is only doing its job if it's on the right doorpost, in the right position. The halachos of placement are more involved than most people realize — there are general rules, and then a long list of situations where the answer comes out differently. Room size, how a space is actually used, which room counts as the one you're entering, and the way a particular doorway is built can all change it.
None of that can be worked out from a photo or a phone call. It's the reason we come to the house instead of asking you to mail us an envelope.
- Which doorways need one at all — and which ones never did.
- Which post, and where on it, for that particular doorway.
- How your minhag applies — we hang according to yours, not ours.
- The doorways that aren't standard — archways, closets, basements, garages, additions.
- The ones that are a real shailah — flagged for your rav rather than guessed at.
Five doorways in one house, and five separate questions. The closet, the archway, and the bedroom are the ones we most often find wrong.
Where we come
Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, and both sides of Jersey.
We keep regular routes through each of these communities, so you're rarely waiting long for the next one. If your town isn't listed, ask anyway — we're probably passing through it.
The Five Towns & South Shore
Nassau County
Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Neck, Hewlett Bay Park, Woodsburgh, North Woodmere, Inwood, Atlantic Beach, Long Beach, Lido Beach, Island Park, Oceanside, Rockville Centre, Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh, Valley Stream.
Great Neck & the North Shore
Nassau County
Great Neck, Kings Point, Great Neck Estates, Sands Point, Old Westbury, Roslyn and Kensington, Saddle Rock, Russell Gardens, Thomaston, Lake Success, Roslyn Heights, Port Washington, Manhasset, Munsey Park, Jericho, Syosset, Woodbury, Muttontown, Brookville, Plainview, Old Bethpage.
Central Nassau & Suffolk
Nassau & Suffolk County
West Hempstead, Dix Hills, Commack, Melville and Garden City, Mineola, New Hyde Park, Hempstead, Franklin Square, Half Hollow Hills, Huntington, Northport, Smithtown, Hauppauge, Stony Brook, Port Jefferson, Coram, Holbrook, Patchogue, Sayville, Bay Shore.
The Hamptons & East End
Suffolk County · second homes
Southampton, East Hampton, Westhampton Beach, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor and Quogue, Water Mill, Amagansett, Montauk, Riverhead, Shelter Island. Summer houses need mezuzos too — we schedule East End runs before Pesach and through the season.
Queens
New York City
Kew Gardens Hills, Jamaica Estates, Forest Hills, Far Rockaway, Bayswater and Kew Gardens, Holliswood, Hillcrest, Briarwood, Fresh Meadows, Rego Park, Bayside, Whitestone, Little Neck, Douglaston, Belle Harbor, Neponsit, Rockaway Park, Astoria, Queens Village.
Brooklyn
New York City
Flatbush, Midwood, Manhattan Beach, Mill Basin, Boro Park and Marine Park, Bergen Beach, Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Kensington, Ditmas Park, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Sea Gate, Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Canarsie.
North Jersey
Bergen · Passaic · Essex · Union
Teaneck, Englewood, Tenafly, Alpine, Short Hills, Livingston and Bergenfield, New Milford, River Edge, Englewood Cliffs, Cresskill, Demarest, Closter, Fort Lee, Fair Lawn, Paramus, Passaic, Clifton, Wayne, West Orange, Millburn, South Orange, Maplewood, Springfield, Union, Elizabeth, Hillside.
Central Jersey & the Shore
Monmouth · Middlesex · Ocean
Deal, Elberon, Oakhurst, West Long Branch, Marlboro, Lakewood and Allenhurst, Interlaken, Ocean Township, Long Branch, Manalapan, Morganville, Englishtown, Freehold, Howell, Jackson, Toms River, Highland Park, Edison, East Brunswick, Old Bridge, Monroe, Princeton, East Windsor, Bridgewater, Somerset.
Shuls, schools, offices, and rental properties too. We do institutional walk-throughs, new-construction whole-house installations, and pre-closing checks for homes being bought or sold. For a house outside these areas — the Catskills, Monsey, Westchester, Boca — ask about our travel schedule.
Book a house call
Tell us where and when.
Send this and we'll come back to you with a window and an exact price before we come out. Prefer to talk it through? Call, text, or WhatsApp us any time.
Questions we get
Before you book.
How often do mezuzot actually need checking?
The widely followed practice is twice in seven years — roughly every three and a half years. Mezuzot on outside doors, in humid basements, or in direct sun should be looked at more often, because the damage there is environmental and can happen fast. If yours haven't been checked since you moved in, that's usually reason enough to book.
Do the mezuzot leave my house?
Yes. A proper check means the klaf comes out of the case, and is read by a sofer under magnification — that isn't something done standing in a hallway. We label every klaf by door so it goes back exactly where it came from, and we put loaner mezuzot up before we leave so no doorway sits empty.
How long until I get them back?
For most homes we return and re-affix within a few days. If a klaf needs repair, we'll tell you what's wrong, what it costs, and how long it will take, and you decide before anything is touched.
What are the two reports?
The placement report covers the house: every doorway we looked at, whether it requires a mezuzah, whether what's on it is in the right spot, and anything missing. The quality report covers the klaf: each mezuzah listed by the door it came off, with its condition and its status — kosher, repairable, or pasul. Between the two you have a written record of where your house stands, which is also what you'll want the next time it's due.
What does a house call cost?
It depends on how many mezuzos you have and where the house is. Send the form or call us and we'll give you an exact number before we come out — no surprises at the door, and nothing repaired or replaced without your approval first.
What if you find a mezuzah is pasul?
We show you exactly what's wrong. Some problems are repairable by a sofer; others mean the klaf is finished and needs replacing. We carry new mezuzos at several levels of hiddur so you can replace on the spot, but there's no pressure to buy from us — plenty of people take the findings and go elsewhere, and that's fine.
Can you tell me which doorways in my house need a mezuzah?
That's a large part of what the visit is for. Closets, archways, garage entries, finished basements, laundry rooms, and doorways between two rooms are the ones people most often get wrong, because the answer turns on details of that particular house rather than a single rule. Where something is genuinely a shailah, we'll say so and point you to your rav rather than guess.
Do you do shuls, schools, and offices?
Regularly. Institutional buildings have dozens of doorways and almost always have gaps. We do full walk-throughs with an itemized report for a board or building committee, and we can schedule around a building's hours.
We're closing on a new house. When should you come?
Before you move. A new house requires mezuzot the day you move in. Only when you rent do you have 30 days to install. We do a lot of pre-move-in work across the Five Towns, Great Neck,and Teaneck.