Door Installation in Plantation - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Door Installation Across Plantation

Door installation in Plantation, FL typically runs $900-$3,800 for a standard single entry door, and $2,400-$7,500 for impact-rated French or double doors on older CBS ranch homes. Most jobs take one day once materials arrive, though Broward County’s HVHZ permitting and header inspections can add a few days to the timeline. We know Plantation’s housing stock, its permit process, and where the water gets in. If you’re pricing a new door, call (772) 577-2915 and we’ll give you a real number in writing.

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Our Door Installation team has worked streets from Jacaranda to the neighborhoods off Cleary Boulevard long enough to know what’s behind the stucco before we open the wall. This page covers what Plantation homeowners actually deal with: older slab foundations, unpermitted porch conversions, and HVHZ codes that didn’t exist when most of these houses went up.

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

We’re not the cheapest bid in Plantation, and we don’t try to be. We’re the company you call when you’ve already been burned once by a door that binds in July or a sill that rots out after two wet seasons. Dale Kessler founded TruePane in 2008 on a rule that still hangs on the whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That applies to every door jamb, every threshold, and every screw we set in this city.

Plantation homeowners tend to keep their houses for decades. Many of you remember the contractor who left you with a fogged seal and no phone number that still works. We answer the phone with a live person, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No voicemail tree, no callback form, no regional call center. That matters when a storm rips a door off its hinges at midnight in Plantation Acres.

Every technician we send into a Plantation home is background-checked, uniformed, and trained to measure every opening twice. Before the truck leaves your driveway, both manufacturer warranty layers are registered in writing with durations stated. That’s The Keystone Standard, and it’s not a sales pitch. It’s how we’ve operated since 2008 through a craft tradition that started long before the brand existed.

Our Door Installation Services in Plantation

Entry & Swing Doors

Single entry doors in Plantation’s CBS ranch homes usually replace original hollow-core wood or aluminum-frame units from the 1960s and 70s. These old doors sit directly on slab, often without proper flashing, and the jambs rot from the bottom up. We install full-frame replacement doors with energy-efficient, impact-rated glass where code requires it, setting the new jamb on a properly flashed sill pan instead of bare concrete. A standard single entry door in Plantation runs $900-$2,200 for a quality fiberglass or steel unit, installed.

Double & French Doors

French doors are common in Plantation’s converted Florida rooms and rear-facing living areas. The problem is that many of these openings were never framed for a door in the first place. West-facing French doors in this city take decades of Broward County UV without low-E glass, which is why we see so many premature seal failures. A new impact-rated French door set, properly flashed and framed, runs $2,400-$7,500 depending on size, glass package, and whether the header needs reframing.

Bifold & Folding Doors

Bifold and multi-panel folding doors are a strong fit for Plantation homes where a patio or pool area opens to interior living space. The engineering matters more here than people expect: a four-panel folding door carries hundreds of pounds, and on an older slab the track has to be dead level or the whole system binds. Plan on $3,500-$9,000 for a quality folding door system in Plantation, installed and adjusted correctly the first time.

Pivot Doors

Pivot doors are the heaviest single-panel option we install in Plantation, often specified for custom or modern front entries. They require a structural header and a pivot hinge system rated for significant weight. On older ranch homes, that sometimes means reinforcing the opening before the door goes in. A pivot door installation in Plantation typically starts around $3,000 and runs upward from there based on slab size and hardware spec.

Trusted Brands We Service in Plantation

We’re an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, including Plantation CWS service, and for Plantation homes we most often quote PGT, CGI, and ES Windows side by side on paper so you can see the actual differences in glass, frame construction, and price. PGT and CGI both manufacture impact-rated product that meets Broward County’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone requirements. Having the right product approvals on file before we pull the permit keeps the job moving. We stock common replacement parts locally for faster turnaround on repairs and adjustments across Plantation.

Common Door Installation Problems We See in Plantation Homes

• Water intrusion at the sill on slab-on-grade ranch homes: Doors installed without flashing tape on the rough opening let water wick into the jamb. Within three to five wet seasons, the bottom of the jamb rots and the door no longer seals. We pull the old unit, inspect for rot, and set the new door on a properly flashed sill pan.
• Warped or seized doors where someone reused an old, non-HVHZ frame: Builders in the 1960s and 70s never imagined today’s impact requirements. When a previous handyman swapped a door slab but kept the original frame, the assembly doesn’t meet current wind-load criteria and it binds when the humidity climbs. Full-frame replacement is the correct fix.
• Premature seal failure in west-facing French door insulated glass: Decades of afternoon sun on the west elevation break down IG seals faster than most homeowners expect. If the glass looks fogged or hazy between the panes, the seal is gone. Low-E glass and proper argon fill solve it.
• Converted porch openings without structural headers: Plantation’s 1970s and 80s screened porches were often enclosed into air-conditioned rooms without permits. When we pull permits for a new impact door in one of these openings, the county’s header inspection frequently reveals missing or undersized framing. That work has to happen before the door goes in.

What a Header Inspection Means for Your Plantation Door Replacement

Here’s the thing about Plantation that catches people off guard. The city’s housing stock was built almost entirely during a planned-development boom between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of those homes are single-story concrete-block-and-stucco ranches, and a large number of them have had a screened porch converted into an air-conditioned room at some point. Those conversions were rarely permitted. The openings cut for doors and windows in those rooms frequently lack structural headers.

Broward County sits entirely within Florida’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone. Every replacement door must carry a Florida Product Approval number meeting HVHZ wind-load criteria. When we pull a permit for an impact door install, the county inspects the framing around the opening. If there’s no header, or the header is undersized, the inspection fails. The framing fix happens before the door is set. We’ve done enough of these to scope it before we quote, so you’re not surprised by a change order after demo starts.

On a Jacaranda-area ranch off Cleary Boulevard, our crew replaced an original hollow-core front door and a jalousie Florida-room slider with impact-rated French doors from Andersen. The county’s header inspection flagged the prior unpermitted porch conversion, so we reframed the opening before mounting the fusion-welded frame and flashing tape, then set the new doors with low-E glass and argon fill the same day. That’s how the job is supposed to go: the issue gets caught on paper, not after the door is in.

Pricing for Door Installation in Plantation, FL

Serving the Door Installation in Plantation Area

We serve all of Plantation, from Jacaranda and the Cleary Boulevard corridor to Plantation Acres and the neighborhoods around Central Park and Plantation Heritage Park. Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our South Florida office, and crews work locally in Plantation week in and week out. If you’re in Fort Lauderdale, Margate, Pompano Beach, or Coral Springs, we cover those areas too from the same local operation.

FAQs - Door Installation in Plantation

Get a Straight Answer on Your Plantation Door Project

If you’re replacing a door in Plantation, you want to know what it costs, whether the opening needs framing, and whether the company will still answer the phone in five years. We will. Call (772) 577-2915 to schedule a free, written estimate. A live person answers, day or night, and the number won’t change once you sign.

Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Plantation and South Florida with door and window installations since 2008.