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Door installation in South Palm Beach is not the same job it is across the bridge. The town is a narrow strip of 1970s and 1980s high-rise condominium towers on a barrier island exposed to salt air from both the Atlantic and the Intracoastal, which means every door frame, hinge, and threshold takes a beating most inland homes never see. We replace entry doors and corridor doors that have rusted through, warped, or lost their fire-rated seal, and we do it with a clear price and a workmanship warranty in writing. Call (954) 280-4413 for a free estimate, and we will come measure the opening ourselves before anyone quotes a number.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is South Palm Beach’s Preferred Door Installation Company
TruePane Windows & Doors was founded by Dale Kessler, a second-generation glazier who has spent four decades setting glass and hanging doors in South Florida coastal buildings. Dale’s rule has not changed: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That standard applies to every entry door we hang in South Palm Beach, whether it is a unit door in a 15-story tower off South Ocean Boulevard or a lanai slider facing the ocean. We send background-checked, uniformed technicians who measure every opening twice, and we register both manufacturer warranty layers before the truck leaves the driveway. That is The Keystone Standard, and we put it in writing on every South Palm Beach job.
Homeowners in South Palm Beach call us because the company plans to be here in thirty years. We hire local, train apprentices into journeymen, and sponsor county fairs and church roof funds. A live person answers the phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including the night a slider jumps its track and the wind is coming through. For many years, the work we do has been rooted in the community we serve, and South Palm Beach condo boards and unit owners know that means something specific: we show up when we say, we keep the job site clean, and we stand behind the work.
Our Door Installation Services in South Palm Beach
South Palm Beach has virtually no single-family homes. The town is condominium towers, and that changes which doors matter most. These are the four jobs we handle most often for South Palm Beach buildings and unit owners.
Entry & Swing Doors
Condominium corridor entry doors in South Palm Beach are required to survive a three-hour fire test, a rule that applies to high-rise construction and not to the single-family homes just across the Intracoastal in Lantana. That changes the door you can buy, the frame you can use, and the hardware that goes on it. We supply and install fire-rated fiberglass and steel entry doors that meet Florida Product Approval for large-missile impact resistance, and we coordinate with your condo board’s approval process before we pull the old door out.
Storm Doors
A storm door on an oceanfront South Palm Beach unit is not a decorative afterthought. It is the first line of defense against wind-driven salt spray and the humidity that warps the primary entry door behind it. We install storm doors with corrosion-resistant hardware and tempered glass rated for the wind zone this barrier island sits in. We have seen too many big-box storm doors with zinc-plated hinges that seize within two seasons of South Palm Beach salt air. We do not install those.
Bifold & Folding Doors
Some of the newer and renovated South Palm Beach towers have reconfigured unit interiors with bifold or folding doors between living areas and lanais. These are heavier than typical interior doors, and on the ocean side of a concrete building they need hardware that tolerates constant expansion and contraction between the air-conditioned interior and the humid salt air. We align, level, and secure these systems so they operate cleanly for years, not months.
Pivot Doors
Pivot doors have become popular in South Palm Beach lobby renovations and some upper-floor unit entrances because they make a statement in a narrow corridor. But a pivot door in a high-rise demands a reinforced frame and a perfectly balanced slab, especially when it is fire-rated and impact-rated at the same time. We install and adjust pivot doors the way a glazier should: with a level, a laser, and no tolerance for a slab that drags or swings shut on its own.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in South Palm Beach
We are an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, including, PGT, and CGI. We also work regularly with ES Windows and ECO Window Systems on South Palm Beach lanai enclosures and impact-rated sliders. Because we install these lines every week, we can quote manufacturer options side by side on paper, so a condo board or unit owner sees the exact difference in price, warranty, and performance before writing a check. We keep commonly needed hardware and weatherstripping stocked for the brands we service in South Palm Beach, which means less waiting when a door needs a repair instead of a full replacement.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in South Palm Beach Homes
- Original hollow metal doors rusted through at the bottom rail. Salt air and wind-driven moisture eat the steel from the bottom up, and once the rust reaches the fire-rated core, the door no longer holds its three-hour rating. This is a code compliance issue, not just a cosmetic one.
- Sliding glass lanai doors that bind and jump their tracks. Salt-saturated rollers seize, and the heavier the glass panel, the harder it crashes when the track fails. We see this most often after a storm season with repeated wind loading on exposed upper balconies.
- Corridor entry doors warped by pressure cycling. Air-conditioned hallways on one side, humid ocean air on the other, and repeated air pressure changes from elevators and stairwell doors all stress the door slab. Over ten or twenty years, the slab bows and the seal between the door and jamb fails, letting air and smoke through.
- Original aluminum-frame entry doors with hinge screws pulled out of hollow terrazzo block. This is a South Palm Beach signature. The 1970s and 1980s towers used hollow terrazzo block for interior partition walls, and old installers set hinge screws directly into the block with no substrate behind them. Eventually the door sags and the jamb pulls away from the wall.
Our crew replaced a corroded original aluminum-frame entry door on a 1970s condo unit off South Ocean Boulevard where the hinge-side jamb had pulled out of the hollow terrazzo block wall. We cut back the block to solid substrate, installed a pressure-treated buck with full flashing tape, and hung a new impact-rated fiberglass door that closed square in a 40-year-old opening. That is the difference between a door replacement and a door replacement done right.
Pricing for Door Installation in South Palm Beach, FL
A standard fire-rated entry door replacement in a South Palm Beach condominium corridor typically runs $2,800 to $5,500 installed, depending on the fire rating, impact rating, and whether the existing frame can be reused or must be replaced completely. Lanai sliding door replacements run $3,500 to $8,000 for impact-rated units, with larger openings and higher floors at the upper end. Storm doors on ocean-facing exposures usually land between $1,200 and $2,800 depending on glass package and hardware grade. Custom and pivot door projects are quoted per opening after we measure on site. The free estimate we give you will be a line-item, written number, not a range that becomes a surprise on the bill. Call (954) 280-4413 and we will come measure the opening, check the existing frame, and tell you exactly what the job costs before you decide anything.
We Also Serve Cities Near South Palm Beach
Our crews run out of the brand’s Miami (South FL) office and serve South Palm Beach locally, which means we can also reach South Palm Beach neighbors in Acacia Villas, Alafaya, Altamonte Springs, and Altoona. If you are in one of those communities and need Door Installation work handled by the same team that knows this stretch of coast, call us and ask where the crew is this week.
Serving South Palm Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the South Palm Beach 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 South Palm Beach
Yes, in almost every South Palm Beach tower you need written approval from the condo board or property manager before replacing a unit entry door, because that door is typically part of the building’s fire-rated common envelope. The board usually requires a specific fire rating, often a specific manufacturer line, and sometimes a licensed contractor certificate before the work starts. We handle that paperwork as part of the installation, and we do not start the work until the approval is in writing. Call (954) 280-4413 if you need help figuring out what your building requires.
For a unit entry door in a South Palm Beach tower, you want a minimum STC 32, and better buildings are now specifying STC 35 to 40, because the hallway noise from elevators, ice machines, and neighboring units travels straight through older hollow metal doors. A solid-core fire-rated fiberglass or steel door with proper weatherstripping and a drop seal at the threshold will give you both the fire rating and the sound attenuation. We can quote side-by-side options with the exact STC numbers on paper so you know what you are buying.
For a standard entry door swap in South Palm Beach, the opening is exposed for about one to three hours while we remove the old door, prepare the frame or install a new buck, and set the new slab. We stage all materials inside before we remove anything, and we never pull a door on a day with rain in the forecast unless it is an emergency. If you are on the ocean side of the building, wind exposure is higher, so we schedule accordingly and have a temporary weather barrier ready if conditions shift.
Because South Palm Beach is a barrier island with salt air coming from the Atlantic on one side and the Intracoastal on the other, and lanai sliders sit right in that crossflow. The rollers, tracks, and locking hardware corrode faster than they do ten miles inland, and the constant humidity cycling between air-conditioned interiors and ocean air causes the frame to expand and contract. The original single-pane aluminum sliders in 1970s towers are not compliant with current Florida impact-glazing requirements, and many are flagged during mandatory milestone inspections as life-safety issues. Replacement with a properly sealed impact-rated unit solves both the corrosion and the compliance problem.
Sometimes, but in South Palm Beach it depends on the building’s structural plans and the condo board’s rules about altering the building envelope. A side-hinged balcony door swings out or in through an opening that may not have the same load path or header as a slider requires, and on concrete towers the rough opening dimensions are usually fixed. We have done these conversions where the board allows it, but it typically requires a structural review, a larger opening, and a new impact-rated slider with Florida Product Approval. We can measure the opening and tell you within one site visit whether the conversion is practical for your unit.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving South Palm Beach with door installation done right. Call (954) 280-4413 for a free estimate and a written line-item quote.
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.