Door Installation in Fort Lauderdale - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Door Installation Across Fort Lauderdale

Door installation in Fort Lauderdale costs $850 to $4,800 for most residential work, with impact-rated entry doors running $2,200 to $4,800 and interior French doors starting around $1,400. If you’re in a pre-1990s concrete block home in Victoria Park, Coral Ridge, or Rio Vista, you’re almost certainly looking at a permitted HVHZ retrofit, not a simple swap. TruePane has been setting doors in Fort Lauderdale long enough to know which permit reviewer wants which engineering detail and which condo board along the Galt Ocean Mile needs 30 days’ notice before we touch a common wall. Call (813) 320-9346 and we’ll walk you through exactly what your project needs, in writing, before you spend a dime.

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Dale Kessler’s rule has not changed since he founded this company: “If the pane is not true, the job is not done.” That applies double to a door. A door that is a quarter-inch out of plane in July will bind, leak, and fail its own weatherstripping within two Fort Lauderdale summers. We measure every opening twice, quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper, and register both warranty layers before the truck leaves your driveway.

Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Fort Lauderdale’s Preferred Door Installation Company

We are not the cheapest bid in Fort Lauderdale, and we don’t aim to be. We are the last call a homeowner needs to make. Our crews know the difference between a 1960s CBS ranch in Colee Hammock and a 1990s mid-rise off Las Olas, and the difference matters: the first almost always needs the rough opening reframed for a taller impact-rated jamb, while the second often needs condo association sign-off and a crane-or-beach-access staging plan. We handle both without drama.

Every door we install in Fort Lauderdale carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise backed by The Keystone Standard. That means both manufacturer warranty layers registered in writing, durations stated, and workmanship guaranteed for 90 days with no paperwork fights. It’s not a vague assurance. It’s a written promise.

Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and local. The person who measures your opening in Coral Ridge is the same person who installs the door. We train apprentices into journeymen and plan to be in Fort Lauderdale in thirty years. When you call after the install, a live person answers, 24/7. Not a voicemail tree. We sponsor county fairs and church roof funds because we live here too.

We carry more than a dozen manufacturer lines, including Andersen, Pella, Marvin, PGT, and CGI. We’re an authorized installer, which means the warranty is real and we can do warranty parts and service without sending you back to a call center.

Our Door Installation Services in Fort Lauderdale

Impact-Rated Entry & Swing Doors

In Fort Lauderdale, an entry door is a structural component, not a decoration. The city sits inside Broward County’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so any replacement exterior door must carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance or Florida Product Approval. A homeowner who buys a door off the shelf in Boca Raton and tries to permit it in Fort Lauderdale learns this the hard way. We quote only HVHZ-compliant systems and we know which manufacturer lines have the cleanest NOA paperwork for the city’s reviewers. A typical impact-rated entry door with a composite or aluminum frame in Fort Lauderdale runs $2,200 to $4,800 installed, depending on width, glass package, and whether we need to reframe the opening.

Double & French Doors

French doors are everywhere in Fort Lauderdale, especially on the canal-side homes in Rio Vista and along the New River. The salt air from both the Atlantic and the brackish tidal canals attacks the EPDM seals and steel hardware faster than you’d believe. We install French doors with fusion-welded frames and stainless or marine-grade hardware for homes within a mile of salt water, and we re-level the threshold with epoxy anchoring on concrete slabs that have been eating corrosion for four decades. Expect $1,400 to $3,900 for a standard double French door in a CBS home, higher if you want impact-rated glass.

Pivot Doors

Pivot doors have become common in the Coral Ridge and Harbor Beach renovations. They’re beautiful, and they’re also the most unforgiving door to install wrong. A heavy pivot door set on a salt-corroded concrete pan without proper epoxy anchoring will sag, scrape, and bind within a year. We learned that lesson on a Fort Lauderdale job years ago and changed our anchoring spec for every pivot door within two miles of a canal. Pivot door installation here runs $3,200 to $6,500, and that includes structural verification of the header and threshold before we order the slab.

Storm Doors

A storm door in Fort Lauderdale does two jobs: it shields the primary entry door from salt and humidity, and it buys you a second layer of wind-driven rain protection during the season. We install storm doors with reinforced corners, adjustable expanders, and weatherstripping that won’t rot in 75% average humidity. Most storm doors in Fort Lauderdale run $650 to $1,400 installed.

Trusted Brands We Service in Fort Lauderdale

We work with Andersen, Pella, Marvin, PGT, and CGI, among others. If your Fort Lauderdale home already has Andersen windows and you need a matching entry door, we can order the exact line and finish. We stock common hardware, rollers, and weatherstripping for the brands above, which means we can often fix a sliding door the same week instead of waiting on a parts shipment. When we quote, you see manufacturer lines side by side on paper, so you know exactly what you’re buying and what the warranty actually covers.

Common Door Installation Problems We See in Fort Lauderdale Homes

• Non-impact-rated doors from another county. Someone buys a Florida Product Approval door in Palm Beach County, puts it in a Fort Lauderdale rough opening, and the permit gets rejected because the product isn’t Miami-Dade NOA. The homeowner is out the door cost and the permit fee. We verify the NOA number before we order anything.
• Canal-side corrosion on frames and hardware. Homes within a few blocks of the New River, the Intracoastal, or any of Fort Lauderdale’s 300-plus miles of tidal canals get salt aerosol year-round. Aluminum frames pit, steel screws seize, and EPDM seals harden and crack. We spec stainless hardware and marine-grade seals on those jobs.
• Condominium party-wall issues. A door replacement in a shared-wall condo along Galt Ocean Mile or Las Olas requires association approval and often a party-wall notice. Skip that step and the association can issue a stop-work order. We coordinate with the board and file the notice as part of the permit package.
• Out-of-true rough openings from settling CBS construction. Fort Lauderdale’s 1950s-1970s concrete block homes settle. By the time a 60-year-old door is replaced, the rough opening is rarely square. We shim and flash the new jamb properly, which is the difference between a door that closes true and one that swings open on its own every time the wind shifts.

A Word on Fort Lauderdale’s Permit and Site Constraints

Here’s a fact most Fort Lauderdale homeowners don’t know until it costs them three weeks: the city’s building department requires signed-and-sealed engineering drawings for most door replacement permits under HVHZ rules. That means a Florida-licensed structural engineer reviews the shop drawings, checks the U-factor and SHGC against code, and stamps them before we can pull the permit. The same job in Boca Raton might get an over-the-counter permit in a day. In Fort Lauderdale, you’re looking at three to four weeks for approval, and we plan for that from the first measurement.

Then there’s the tight-lot reality of neighborhoods like Victoria Park, Colee Hammock, and Shady Banks. These are not subdivisions with wide driveways and generous setbacks. We’re staging a 6-foot impact-rated French door on a driveway that’s fifteen feet deep, keeping the shared fence line clear so the neighbor’s landscaper can still get through, and running a wet saw with a dust shroud to keep construction dust out of the pool two doors down. We coordinate parking with the homeowner or the association, we work within the city’s noise ordinance hours, and we leave the job site cleaner than we found it. If a home is in the Victoria Park historic overlay district, the permit package includes drawings that show the new door’s U-factor, SHGC, and NOA number, because the review board wants to see all of it. None of that shows on a cheap bid, and all of it affects the final price.

On a tight Victoria Park lot, our crew installed a 6-foot-wide impact-rated French door with argon-fill low-E glass for a 1962 CBS ranch whose original jalousie side-light had seal failure and corroded aluminum jambs from decades of canal-side salt air. We staged the new door and flashing tape on the driveway, used a wet saw with a dust shroud to cut the existing header for the taller fusion-welded frame, and kept the shared fence line clear for the neighbor’s landscaper. Because the home is in the Victoria Park historic overlay district, our permit package included signed-and-sealed shop drawings showing the new door’s U-factor, SHGC, and Miami-Dade NOA number, and the whole approval took just under three weeks before we set the first jamb.

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We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Lauderdale

TruePane installs doors in Plantation, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, and Coconut Creek, in addition to our core Fort Lauderdale service area. If you’re in one of those cities, the same Door Installation standards apply: HVHZ-compliant products, written line-item pricing, and both warranty layers registered in writing. Our Fort Lauderdale crew coordinates scheduling across the area, so response times stay short even when you’re just over the line in Hollywood or Coconut Creek.

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