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Door installation in Fort Lauderdale runs $1,800-$5,200 for a standard entry door and $3,200-$8,500 for an impact-rated front door in an HVHZ-compliant opening. We serve every neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, from Coral Ridge to Las Olas Isles to Progresso, with crews who know Broward County permitting and the salt-air realities of canal-front properties. Call (754) 310-3589 to schedule a free in-home measure and written quote.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Fort Lauderdale’s Preferred Door Installation Company
TruePane Windows & Doors has built its Fort Lauderdale reputation on work that passes HVHZ inspection the first time and doors that still operate smoothly three years after the install. Dale Kessler founded the company in 2008 because too many Fort Lauderdale homeowners had been sold doors that bound in July, corroded near canals, or failed a wind-mitigation inspection. Our background-checked, uniformed technicians measure every rough opening twice and quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper so you see exactly what you’re buying before you commit.
We’re not a franchise playbook. We’re a local glazing company with over 42 years of community service behind us. Our Fort Lauderdale customers call a live person every time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No voicemail tree, no regional call center. The person who answers knows the difference between Coral Ridge CBS and Rio Vista wood-frame details.
Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise and The Keystone Standard: both manufacturer warranty layers registered in writing, durations stated, before our truck leaves your driveway. If the pane is not true, the job is not done.
Our Door Installation Services in Fort Lauderdale
These are the doors and Impact Garage Doors - Fort Lauderdale we install most often in local homes. Each one gets the same treatment: measured twice, quoted in writing, permitted correctly, and installed to HVHZ code.
Entry Doors
A new entry door in Fort Lauderdale has to do two jobs: hold up to hurricane wind loads and resist the humidity that causes wood doors to swell and bind by July. We install fiberglass and steel entry door systems with marine-grade hinges and thresholds that keep salt air from eating the hardware. Most entry door replacements in Fort Lauderdale take one day once the unit arrives.
Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors
If your home is in a Broward County HVHZ permit jurisdiction, a non-impact-rated door is legally non-permittable for any replacement job. We install impact-rated doors from PGT, CGI, and ES Windows service in Fort Lauderdale with large-missile rated laminated glass and HVHZ-specific anchoring into your masonry or wood-frame rough opening. These are the doors that qualify you for windstorm-premium credits after a wind-mitigation inspection.
French & Double Doors
French doors in Fort Lauderdale fail most often at the sill and the astragal where the two panels meet. We set French and double door units with pressure-treated bucks, stainless steel sill pans, and interlocks that keep wind-driven rain out of the opening. This matters on canal-front lots where a standard sill pan will corrode through in a few seasons.
Replacement Doors
Replacing an aging aluminum slider or jalousie door on a 1960s CBS ranch in Lauderdale Manors or Coral Ridge requires more than a unit swap. We reframe the masonry opening with pressure-treated buck framing, set HVHZ-compliant anchor spacing, and flash the perimeter before the door goes in. Skipping any of those steps is how you get a red-tagged permit or a door that pulls its anchors under wind load.
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Trusted Brands We Service in Fort Lauderdale
We’re an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, including PGT, CGI, ES Windows, and ECO Window Systems. That matters in Fort Lauderdale because we can quote you side by side on paper: a PGT impact entry door versus a CGI unit, with the Florida Product Approval numbers and wind zone ratings stated for each configuration. We also stock local replacement parts for common failure points, so a corroded roller or a failed sweep on a PGT slider in Rio Vista doesn’t leave you waiting on a parts shipment.
What Door Installation Costs in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale pricing runs higher than neighboring counties because of HVHZ code requirements and the masonry work most 1950s-1970s homes need. Here are real ranges for this market:
- Standard entry door replacement: $1,800-$3,500, depending on the frame material and whether the rough opening needs reframing.
- Impact-rated entry door: $3,200-$5,500 installed with HVHZ-compliant anchors and Florida Product Approval documentation.
- Hurricane-proof front door with sidelites: $4,500-$9,000, driven by the laminated glass package and hardware upgrades.
- French or double door replacement with impact glass: $4,800-$12,000, with the spread driven by panel width and sill complexity.
- Storm or exterior door: $900-$2,400, depending on whether it’s an impact-rated panel or a standard storm door.
What moves the number in Fort Lauderdale? Opening count, wind zone, floor height on a canal-front lot, and whether your home is CBS masonry or wood frame. A 1962 single-story in Coral Ridge with a standard masonry opening will quote differently than a 2005 two-story in Rio Vista with a custom rounded opening. We scope all of it, measure twice, and hand you a written line-item quote before any work starts.
Call (754) 310-3589 to schedule a free in-home measure and written quote with no surprise line items.
Florida Pays You Back
Fort Lauderdale homeowners can stack several programs on a door replacement. My Safe Florida Home matching grants run up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades. Florida’s sales-tax exemption applies to Energy-Efficient Windows - Fort Lauderdale and impact-resistant doors. The federal 25C energy credit covers 30% of product cost, up to $600 per year on qualifying units. And after a wind-mitigation inspection ($75-$150), windstorm-premium credits average around 25% on the windstorm portion of your policy. Programs and carriers set the final numbers; we can’t guarantee any specific amount, but we’ll register both warranty layers and provide the documentation that makes you eligible.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Fort Lauderdale Homes
- Seized rollers and corroded tracks on canal-front sliders. The salt air along Fort Lauderdale’s 300-plus miles of interior canals rivals oceanfront exposure. Standard aluminum roller hardware locks up within two to three years. We spec stainless steel rollers and tracks on every canal-adjacent replacement.
- Non-impact-rated doors on permitted replacement jobs. Broward County HVHZ rules make non-impact doors non-permittable for replacements. The job gets red-tagged and must be redone. We won’t quote it that way.
- CBS masonry openings with no pressure-treated buck framing. 1950s-1970s concrete block homes need proper bucks and HVHZ anchor spacing. Anchors pull out under wind load without them, and the opening is compromised.
- Sill pan corrosion and water intrusion at the threshold. Humidity above 75% year-round and salt air will eat a galvanized sill pan. We use stainless steel sill pans and flashed perimeter details on every Fort Lauderdale install.
Door Installation in Fort Lauderdale: What Makes It Different
Fort Lauderdale sits inside Broward County’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone, a designation shared only with Miami-Dade County in all of Florida. Every permitted door installation in Fort Lauderdale must carry HVHZ-specific Florida Product Approval and follow stricter anchor and installation protocols than neighboring Palm Beach County or virtually anywhere else in the country. On top of that, the city’s 300-plus miles of interior canals push salt-laden, corrosive air deep into residential neighborhoods miles from the Atlantic, making marine-grade hardware and corrosion-resistant frames a practical necessity across the entire city, not just along A1A.
The dominant residential stock is 1950s-1970s concrete block structure ranch homes in neighborhoods like Coral Ridge, Lauderdale Manors, and Progresso. These masonry rough openings require specific pressure-treated buck framing and HVHZ-compliant anchor spacing that differs entirely from wood-frame construction common in other regions. Many of these same homes still have original aluminum jalousie or Fort Lauderdale Custom & Geometric Windows-era aluminum slider doors that are non-compliant with current HVHZ impact standards. That’s a large, ongoing replacement market, and it’s one we know well.
On a 1950s CBS ranch in Coral Ridge, our crew replaced a seized and corroded aluminum slider with an impact-rated PGT door using stainless steel rollers and tracks. The original hardware had locked up from canal salt exposure within three years. We set new pressure-treated bucks into the masonry rough opening with HVHZ-compliant anchor spacing, then flashed the perimeter and installed the door with a large-missile rated laminated glass unit. The homeowner now has a door that operates smoothly and carries the Florida Product Approval for wind mitigation credits. That’s the standard we hold on every Fort Lauderdale door job.
Serving Fort Lauderdale from our South Florida dispatch office means our crews are on the ground locally, not driving in from another county. We know the Broward permit office’s expectations and the specific anchor schedules your inspector will want to see.
We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Lauderdale
TruePane Windows & Doors serves Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding cities of Plantation, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, and Coconut Creek. If you’re in any of those areas, the same local crews, same written quotes, and same HVHZ expertise apply. Call (754) 310-3589 and we’ll get you scheduled.
Serving Fort Lauderdale, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Lauderdale 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 - Door Installation in Fort Lauderdale
Yes. Every permitted door replacement in Fort Lauderdale must carry HVHZ-specific Florida Product Approval, which is stricter than the Florida Building Code and applies only in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. We pull permits and register approvals for every job. Call (754) 310-3589 for an exact quote on your opening.
It means you should spec stainless steel rollers, tracks, and locking hardware on any sliding door. Standard aluminum hardware seizes or corrodes within two to three years from canal salt exposure, even miles from the beach. We quote marine-grade hardware as the baseline on canal-adjacent Fort Lauderdale replacements.
Yes, but the masonry rough opening must be reframed with pressure-treated buck framing and HVHZ-compliant anchor spacing before the impact door goes in. Skipping that step means the anchors pull out under wind load. We scope the reframe in the written quote so there’s no second appointment left hanging.
It can, after a wind-mitigation inspection. Windstorm-premium credits average around 25% on the windstorm portion of your policy, and an impact-rated entry door with the right Florida Product Approval is one of the upgrades the inspection looks for. The inspection runs $75-$150 and your carrier sets the final credit. We provide the approval documentation to make you eligible.
Your door’s design pressure rating, which is a PSF number and never above +/-100, is matched to your specific opening’s wind zone and floor height. A canal-front two-story will spec differently than an inland single-story. We quote the correct DP rating for your configuration, not a generic number that might fail your inspection. Call (754) 310-3589 for a detailed written quote.
Get Your Fort Lauderdale Door Installation Quote
If you need Door Installation done right in Fort Lauderdale, call (754) 310-3589. We’ll set a time to measure your openings, quote your options in writing, and walk through the permit and approval path for your specific home. The estimate is free, and the work carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Fort Lauderdale and South Florida. If the pane is not true, the job is not done.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose TruePane Windows & Doors
Impact systems engineered to design pressures up to +/-100, matched to your wind zone - your openings hold when the storm arrives.
Low-E insulated impact glass from our manufacturer lines commonly cuts monthly cooling bills 20-30%.
Laminated impact glass shuts out up to 40% of outside noise - traffic, neighbors, weather.
Monitoring services run $30-90 a month. Laminated impact glass resists forced entry around the clock, with no subscription.
Florida homeowners average around 25% savings on the windstorm portion of their policy after protecting every opening - some homes qualify for more.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.