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Door installation in Miami costs $1,800 to $6,500 for a standard exterior entry door, and $4,200 to $14,000 for a NOA-approved impact French door with full frame replacement. Most jobs take one day once the door arrives, but the permitting and product-approval work happens weeks before the truck rolls up. If you live in a pre-1992 concrete block house in Westchester, Kendall, or Shenandoah, you already know the stakes: the wrong door won’t pass Miami-Dade inspection and your insurer won’t credit it. Call us at (954) 280-4413. We measure twice, quote both warranty layers in writing, and don’t leave until the door is true.
We’ve worked Miami’s door openings for long enough to know what’s behind them. CBS walls, salt-eaten subsills, jalousie remnants, openings that were never framed for today’s anchor schedules. That’s the real job. The door itself is the easy part. Getting the opening to hold it through a 175 mph design wind event is where a contractor earns the check.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Miami’s Preferred Door Installation Company
TruePane is led by Dale Kessler, a second-generation glazier who founded the company in 2008 on a rule that still governs every install: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That’s not marketing. That’s the whiteboard. And it’s why Miami homeowners who’ve been burned once tend to stay with us for the next opening.
Our Door Installation crews are background-checked and uniformed, and they arrive when we say they’ll arrive. A live person answers the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Not a voicemail tree. Not a regional call center. When a Miami homeowner calls about a binding door in July or a seal that failed after the last storm, someone who knows the trade picks up.
Every job carries the Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we make it right, no paperwork and no arguing. Both manufacturer warranty layers are registered in writing before the truck leaves the driveway. Dale built the company on a simple conviction: a door that isn’t anchored right, flashed right, and set true isn’t a completed job. Miami’s older homes test that conviction on every opening.
Our Door Installation Services in Miami
We don’t list styles and hope one fits. We measure the opening, assess what the wall is built from, check the subsill condition, and then quote door lines side by side on paper. Here’s how that plays out across the door types Miami homes actually need.
Entry & Swing Doors
A front door in Miami has two jobs: hold up to hurricane wind loads and survive salt air that pits standard hardware. Pre-Andrew CBS homes often have rotted wood subsills hiding behind the old slab, and a new entry door won’t fix that. We pull the old door, inspect the subsill, replace it with treated or composite material when needed, and re-anchor the opening to current Miami-Dade schedules. Most entry door installs in Miami run $1,800 to $6,500 depending on whether we’re doing a slab swap or a full rough-opening rebuild.
Double & French Doors
French doors in Miami are common on rear walls facing patios and pools, which means they take direct wind and salt exposure. A NOA-approved French door with marine-grade finish starts around $4,200 for a standard 60-inch opening and runs upward with larger openings, impact glazing, and subsill buck work. The permitting side matters here: Miami-Dade requires product approval on every component, including the subsill buck and anchoring system, not just the door panel. We pull permits, schedule inspections, and register both warranty layers before we call the job done.
Bifold & Folding Doors
Bifold doors are a growing request in Miami’s higher-end renovations around Coral Gables and Coconut Grove. The appeal is obvious: a full wall that opens to the yard. The engineering is less obvious. Multi-panel folding doors put huge load on the header and the track system, and a CBS wall from the 1960s was never designed for that. We evaluate the header, add steel where the load schedule requires it, and install NOA-approved folding systems from manufacturers who’ve done the Miami-Dade testing. These jobs typically run $8,000 to $20,000 and are quoted line by line so you see exactly what the permit triggers.
Pivot Doors
A pivot door adds presence, but in Miami it also adds engineering. Pivot hardware changes where the weight sits, and on a CBS wall that means anchor points that didn’t exist before. We install pivot doors with stainless pivot boxes and marine-grade hardware, and we size the jamb reinforcement for the door’s full weight plus wind load. Expect $5,000 to $12,000 for a true impact-rated pivot install in Miami, including the permit and the structural work the opening needs.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Miami
We’re an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, and we quote them side by side on paper. For Miami’s HVHZ requirements, we regularly install doors from CGI, PGT, and ES Windows. All three hold active Miami-Dade NOAs on their impact door lines, and we know their anchoring schedules well enough to quote accurately before the job starts. We also stock common hardware for these lines locally, which means if a hinge or roller fails two years from now, we’re not waiting on a freight shipment from the Midwest. In Miami, that speed matters when the next storm is tracking toward the coast.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Miami Homes
- Rotted or undersized subsills behind original sliding doors. Pre-Andrew CBS homes in Westchester and Hialeah frequently have wood subsills that were never flashed or sealed properly. Pulling the old door exposes rot that a non-HVHZ contractor might just flash over and cover up. We replace it and re-anchor the opening before the new door goes in.
- Salt-corroded aluminum frames and weep holes near the coast. Within a mile or two of Biscayne Bay or the Atlantic, standard aluminum door frames pit and fail within years, not decades. Seals go with them, and water intrusion follows. Marine-grade anodized or painted finishes are not an upsell in Miami; they’re the only finish that holds up.
- Non-NOA doors red-tagged at inspection. Installing a door without a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance means the inspector red-tags it and the insurer denies wind-mitigation credits. The homeowner discovers this after the job is done. We won’t install a door that doesn’t carry the NOA for the specific opening, and we verify that before we order anything.
- Openings never engineered for current anchor loads. Tens of thousands of CBS homes across Kendall and Westchester still have original door rough openings from the 1950s through the early 1990s, built long before post-Andrew wind-load requirements. The new door needs anchor schedules the old opening doesn’t accommodate. We reframe, add subsill bucks, and bring the opening up to current code before closing walls.
Pricing for Door Installation in Miami, FL
Here’s what we tell Miami homeowners, straight: a slab swap on an existing structurally sound opening runs $1,800 to $4,500. A full rough-opening rebuild with subsill work, reframing, and a NOA-approved impact door runs $4,000 to $14,000 depending on the opening size, the door line, and what the permit triggers. Bifold and pivot systems sit at the higher end, and so do doors within two miles of the coast, where marine-grade finishes are non-negotiable. We don’t pad the quote and we don’t write change orders after the wall is open without your signed approval first. Call (954) 280-4413 for a free estimate, and we’ll put the numbers on paper.
We Also Serve Cities Near Miami
Our Door Installation in Miami crews work throughout the metro, including Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Key Biscayne, and Hialeah. Coastal jobs on Key Biscayne and Miami Beach get the same marine-grade hardware and NOA verification we’d put on any Miami opening, and we schedule those runs to account for the causeways and island traffic. If you’re in the surrounding area, we’ll come out and quote the job the same way: measure the opening, assess the structure, and put the numbers on paper before you pay anything.
Serving Miami, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Miami 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 Miami
That’s usually the fingerprint of a previous contractor who removed an original jalousie or sliding door, mounted a replacement with whatever anchors were on the truck, and then someone else came behind and re-mounting it later with a different anchor pattern after it sagged. In Miami’s CBS homes, each set of holes represents a different attempt to make a door fit an opening that was never properly reframed. We repair those openings by filling abandoned anchor holes with epoxy, installing a proper subsill buck, and drilling fresh anchors to the NOA schedule, so the door sits true and stays put.
Yes, in many cases it will. Miami-Dade’s wind-mitigation credit system rewards homeowners who upgrade to NOA-approved impact doors and windows, and the reduction can run in the hundreds of dollars per year depending on your insurer and your home’s position relative to the coast. To prove it, you need the product approval documents plus a wind mitigation inspection by a licensed inspector who will document the NOA-numbered components. We give you the NOA documentation for every door we install in writing before the truck leaves, and you can submit it with your insurer’s wind mitigation form. Call (954) 280-4413 for a quote and we’ll walk through exactly what your opening needs for the credit.
You can keep it if it’s original to the house, but you should understand what you’re keeping. Jalousie doors and windows are explicitly banned in new construction under Miami-Dade code because they offer essentially zero hurricane protection and don’t meet post-Andrew wind-load requirements. If the door is on a protected interior opening, it may be grandfathered, but you’ll get no wind-mitigation credit for it, and it’s a weak point in the envelope during any serious storm. Replacing it with a NOA-approved impact door is a common job for us in Westchester, Kendall, and Hialeah, where those original jalousies are still everywhere.
The permit forces the inspector to look at what’s behind the door, and on a pre-1992 CBS home in Miami that often means undersized wood subsills, deteriorated anchor points, and rough openings that were never built for current wind-load schedules. Once the wall is open and the inspector sees the condition, the opening has to be brought up to current code before the door can be signed off. We anticipate this by doing an inspection before quoting, which is why our quotes include allowances for subsill replacement and reframing. If something else shows up behind the wall, we price it in writing and get your approval before we touch it. That’s the square deal: no surprise line items on the bill and no second appointment left hanging.
Yes. Within a mile or two of Biscayne Bay or the Atlantic, salt-laden air corrodes standard aluminum door frames, weep holes, and hardware in a handful of years. What looks like a cosmetic problem, pitted frames and green corrosion around hinges, becomes a functional one when seals fail and water gets into the wall. Marine-grade anodized or painted finishes are the standard we recommend for coastal Miami openings, not because they look different but because they last. If you’re in Coconut Grove, Brickell, or anywhere near the water, we spec marine-grade hardware from the start. Call (954) 280-4413 and we’ll tell you exactly what the exposure at your address requires.
If you’re ready to replace a door in Miami, start with a phone call. We’ll send out a background-checked, uniformed technician who measures the opening twice, checks what the wall is built from, and quotes the door lines side by side on paper. Both warranty layers get registered in writing before the truck leaves the driveway, and every job carries the Done Right Promise. If the pane is not true, the job is not done. Call (954) 280-4413 today to schedule your free estimate.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Miami since 2008.
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.