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AfterCGI Door Installation: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide
We install, replace, and service CGI door components throughout Fort Lauderdale, and most door hardware or panel work runs between $450 and $1,800 installed depending on the part and your CGI series. Parts we keep on the truck can often be swapped the same visit; anything we have to order from CGI typically arrives within three to five business days.
Most homeowners call us after a door starts dragging on the threshold, a lock set won’t engage cleanly, or a roller assembly gives up in the middle of hurricane season. The good news: CGI builds doors in predictable, well-documented series, which means we can identify your component quickly and get the right part ordered the first time. The less good news: mixing the wrong aftermarket part into a CGI impact door voids the warranty faster than a hailstorm on a corrugated roof. We’ll walk you through exactly what that means below.
Key takeaways:
- We are an independent installer and service provider, not a CGI affiliate. That means we stock and source parts across the full CGI line without a factory bias.
- CGI doors use series-specific rollers, hinges, and weatherstripping. A generic part from a big-box store is not the same thing.
- Florida’s salt air and humidity shorten the life of CGI roller bearings and bottom sweeps more than interior climates do. We see it daily.
- Installation pricing is flat and quoted upfront. You know the line-item total before we start, not after.
Which CGI Models This Applies To
CGI manufactures impact doors across several lines, including the Estate Collection, Bordeaux Series, Tuscany Series, and the heavier commercial-grade Sentinel line. The parts in these doors are not interchangeable across every series, even when the dimensions look close. A Bordeaux hinge pin is not the hinge pin on a Sentinel unit, and the bottom sweep on a Tuscany inswing is a different profile from the Estate outswing. That matters because a mismatched part can hold the door off its weatherstripping or put extra load on the corner welds, and the first wind event that presses against it will find the weak point.
Every CGI door carries a label on the hinge side of the panel, near the bottom corner. It lists the series, the manufacturing date, and the DP rating. If the label is gone or faded, we measure the door slab thickness, the hinge bolt pattern, and the roller wheel diameter right at your door. From those numbers we can usually identify the series without guesswork.
The OEM question: CGI’s warranty protects the original components and the door assembly as a unit. When a CGI original part is available, we recommend it. There are a handful of quality aftermarket equivalents we trust for specific items like ball-bearing rollers and bottom sweeps, and we’ll quote both lines side by side on paper so you see the cost difference and the trade-off in writing. What we will not do is install a generic import roller into a $4,000 impact door just to shave $20 off the bill. It is a false economy in Fort Lauderdale, where every door gets hit with salt air, 80 percent humidity, and a passing tropical system every few years.
Signs Your CGI Door Installation Is Failing
- The door scrapes the threshold on the latch side. This usually means a roller bearing has worn flat or the roller bracket has lost its adjustment. On a CGI impact door, that small sag changes how the multi-point lock engages, and a lock that does not fully engage is a security and wind-load problem, not just a nuisance.
- The multi-point lock takes two hands to throw, or it will not throw at all. Fort Lauderdale’s humidity swells door slabs and shifts rough openings over time. When a CGI French door’s astragal moves even an eighth of an inch, the hook bolts no longer line up with the strike plates. Forcing the handle bends the internal gearbox, and that is a parts replacement, not an adjustment.
- Water pools on the interior sill after a heavy rain. The bottom sweep on a CGI impact door is a sacrificial wear item designed to compress against the sill. After five to seven Florida summers, it hardens and cracks. Replacing it is inexpensive. Ignoring it leads to water under the threshold and rot in the subfloor, which is not.
- You can see daylight through the top corner of an inswing door. The top retainer on the panel has compressed or a hinge has worn enough that the door has shifted. CGI impact doors are heavy. When the weight is no longer carried evenly, the strain concentrates at the top hinge and the corner weld.
- The door rattles in its frame when a truck drives by on Broward Boulevard or the wind pushes against it from the east. That play means the door is no longer seating fully against the weatherstripping. On a non-impact door, rattles are cosmetic. On an impact-rated CGI door doing 140 mph wind duty, panel movement at the frame is the first sign the system is losing its structural seal.
Replacement Cost & What’s Included
In Fort Lauderdale, CGI door hardware and component installation runs in predictable bands. A roller assembly replacement runs $180 to $320 per door, including the part and the adjustment. A full weatherstripping and bottom sweep kit for a CGI French door set costs $240 to $400 installed. Multi-point lock mechanisms run $380 to $650 depending on the series and whether we are replacing the full assembly or repairing the gearbox. If a door slab has to come down for a hinge or corner weld repair, plan for $600 to $1,800 depending on labor and whether the panel needs refinishing afterward.
These are installed prices, not “parts-only” figures that leave you standing in the doorway with a screwdriver and a suspicion. Every quote is written, line-itemed, and includes parts, labor, on-site adjustment, and disposal of the old components. The price we quote is the price on the bill. No change orders, no surprise line items, no “while we were in there” discoveries that somehow triple the invoice. And like every TruePane job, the work carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise. If the part is not installed correctly, we fix it. No paperwork fights, no arguing about whether the warranty applies.
DIY or Call Us?
There are things a careful owner can check before calling us, and we encourage it. Look at the label on the hinge stile so you can tell us the series. Note whether the problem door is the active or passive panel on a French set. Test whether the lock throws with the door open or only when closed, because that tells us whether the problem is alignment or the lock body itself. Those three observations save a service call’s worth of diagnostic time.
What we do not recommend is pulling a CGI impact door apart on a Saturday afternoon. These panels weigh well over 150 pounds for the full-glass versions, and the multi-point lock assembly sits inside the panel edge where a slipped screwdriver can gouge the internal channel. If the lock gearbox has failed, the door has to be pulled off its hinges to get at it, and that is a two-person job with the right tools and a flat work surface. Dale Kessler started measuring rough openings before he could drive, and even he does not rush a component swap on a five-thousand-dollar impact assembly. Call us at (754) 310-3589 and we will get the job scheduled, matched, and finished without the trial-and-error.
FAQs
Rollers and bottom sweeps are the short-lived parts, and in Fort Lauderdale’s salt-and-humidity climate they typically last five to seven years before showing real wear. Lock bodies and hinge assemblies on properly installed CGI doors routinely last twelve to twenty years. Doors installed out of level wear out every part faster, which is exactly why we spend extra time on the initial reveal measurements.
Sometimes. A multi-point lock with a jammed gearbox can often be rebuilt with a CGI replacement cartridge rather than a full lock assembly swap, and that saves real money. A cracked bottom sweep is a replacement, not a repair, because once the vinyl is hardened and split there is nothing left to recondition. We will always tell you which option your door qualifies for before any work begins. Call (754) 310-3589 and we will walk through it with you.
Most single-part replacements, like rollers or a bottom sweep, are completed in under an hour on site. A full multi-point lock replacement or a panel removal for hinge work runs two to three hours. We keep common CGI wear parts on the truck, so many Fort Lauderdale service calls are one only visit. We will confirm the visit window before we come out.
We stock the common roller assemblies, bottom sweeps, and lock components for the CGI series we see most often in Fort Lauderdale, along with compatible parts for PGT, CWS, and ES Windows doors. Specialized items like a full panel hinge replacement on a Sentinel line door often come ordered from CGI, which is why we check your series and measurements before the first visit whenever possible. Requesting that information by phone saves you a second trip.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner, TruePane Windows & Doors at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Fort Lauderdale and nearby areas.
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