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

Trusted Door Installation for Miami Homeowners

A front door that sticks in August or a frame that’s gone soft from hurricane season isn’t something you learn to live with. It’s a problem that gets worse every time the humidity rolls in off Biscayne Bay. At TruePane Windows & Doors, we’ve been setting doors square in Miami homes for over 42 years, through every code change Miami-Dade County has thrown at us and every storm season that’s tested our work. Our technicians measure every opening twice, quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper, and register both warranty layers before the truck leaves your driveway. If you need door installation in Miami done right the first time, call (561) 489-4036 and a live person will answer, day or night.

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We’re not the cheapest bid in town, and we won’t pretend to be. We’re the last call you’ll need to make on a door, backed by the 90-Day Done Right Promise and The Keystone Standard, both warranty layers registered in writing with durations stated. Dale Kessler founded this company in 2008 on a rule he still keeps on the whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That applies to every door we hang.

What Our Door Installation Service Includes

Every door we install in Miami gets treated the same way: measured twice, set level, sealed against the humidity and the wind, and walked through with you before we leave. Here’s what that looks like across the five door types we handle most in this market.

Entry Doors

Your entry door does three jobs at once: it keeps weather out, keeps conditioned air in, and sets the first impression of your home. In Miami, a wood door that wasn’t sealed properly will swell in the summer and never close right again. We install fiberglass, steel, and wood entry doors, and we’re specific about which works where. For a Coral Gables home with a covered porch, a stained wood door holds up fine. For a North Miami house with full western exposure, we’ll steer you toward fiberglass with a rot-proof frame and tell you why on paper before you spend a dollar.

Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors

Miami-Dade County has the strictest wind-borne debris codes in the country, and for good reason. A hurricane-proof front door isn’t just a product, it’s a tested assembly: the door, the frame, the hinges, the locking hardware, and the anchoring all have to carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance as one system. TruePane is an authorized installer for PGT, CGI, and CWS impact doors, and we pull the permits and schedule the inspections on every hurricane door job. When the inspector signs off, you get a copy of the approval in writing, not a verbal “you’re good.”

French & Double Doors

French doors are where sloppy installation shows up fastest. If the two panels are out of square by even a quarter inch, you’ll see daylight at the astragal and feel the draft every January when that cold front pushes through. We set French and double doors with a level, a plumb bob, and a lot of patience, shimming each hinge point until both panels meet clean and lock without a fight. Whether you’re opening onto a Doral patio or a Kendall garden, we’ll make sure the doors swing true on day one and still swing true five years from now.

Replacement Doors

A replacement door only works as well as the rough opening it goes into. In older Miami homes, we regularly find that the real problem isn’t the door at all, it’s a frame that’s been soaking up moisture for twenty years or a subfloor that settled after Hurricane Andrew. We don’t just swap the slab and walk away. We inspect the rough opening, tell you honestly if the frame needs work, and either repair it properly or build a new buck before we hang the new door. That’s the difference between a door that works for two years and one that works for twenty.

Storm & Exterior Doors

A storm door in Miami serves a different purpose than it does up north. Here, it’s about ventilation during the cooler months and a second layer of protection during the rainy ones. We install storm and exterior doors with the same attention to sealing and anchoring that we give to full impact assemblies. If you want a storm door that will actually hold up when a summer squall hits Aventura at 45 miles an hour, we’ll spec the right one and set it so the closer doesn’t rip the frame out on the first gust.

Brands We Service for Door Installation

We’re an authorized installer for PGT, CGI, and CWS, the three impact door manufacturers that dominate the Miami market for a reason: they engineer their products specifically for our wind zone and our humidity. Dale Kessler has been working with PGT products since before they became the household name they are now. Our technicians know how their anchoring schedules run, how their weatherstripping seats in a standard rough opening, and how to register their warranty so it actually pays out if you ever need it.

CGI and CWS doors are heavier than standard units, and we treat them accordingly. That means a third set of hands on the frame during install, different shim spacing, and a lot more torque on the anchor bolts than a non-impact door needs. We also work with ViewLux doors for homeowners who want the clean look of a modern entry system without sacrificing the impact rating. Whatever brand you have or want, we’ll quote it side by side against comparable lines on paper, so you see exactly what you’re buying. If your door needs work and it’s not one of these brands, call anyway. We service every major manufacturer line and more than a dozen in total, and the odds are good we’ve already repaired or replaced plenty of doors just like yours in Kendall, Cutler Bay, and everywhere else across Miami-Dade.

Signs You Need Door Installation Right Now

• The door won’t latch without a hip check. When a door starts missing the strike plate, the frame has moved. In Miami, that movement usually comes from moisture cycling through the studs or a slab that’s settled into the limestone. A door that binds now will only bind worse, and forcing it every day is how you end up with a cracked hinge leaf and a door that falls off the jamb.
• You can see daylight around the perimeter when the door is closed. If light gets through, so does water, air, and every palmetto bug trying to get out of the rain. This is a sealing failure, not just a weatherstripping issue, and in most cases the door has shifted enough that the only real fix is pulling it and resetting it square.
• The door is difficult to open after a heavy rain. Miami’s tropical moisture makes wood and some composite frames swell, and once a frame has absorbed enough water over enough seasons, it stays swollen. If your door sticks after every storm and loosens up when the dry season hits, the frame is long gone. Replacing just the door won’t fix it; the opening needs to be rebuilt and re-waterproofed before a new unit goes in.
• You’re replacing a door that’s original to a house built before 1994. Pre-Andrew construction in Miami routinely used hollow-core exterior doors and non-impact rated frames. What’s hanging in your house right now may have never been code-compliant to begin with, and it’s certainly not protecting you at today’s wind-load standards. More importantly, your insurance company knows that. A new Miami-Dade approved door can lower your wind mitigation credits and your premiums.
• You feel a draft or see condensation between double-pane glass panes. A fogged door lite means the seal has failed and the insulating gas has escaped. You’re not just losing energy efficiency; you’re looking at a window that will never clear up on its own. On impact-rated doors, that failed lite also means the structural integrity is compromised. The lite has to be replaced, and if the door is old enough, replacing the whole unit is the better call.

Our Door Installation Process - Step by Step

We don’t believe in surprises on install day. Here’s how every door project in Miami goes, from first call to final walkthrough.

1. 1
   Measure and assess. We come out, remove the interior casing if needed, and measure the rough opening from four points: top, bottom, and both sides. We check the floor for level, the jambs for plumb, and the header for sag. If the opening is out of square, we tell you before we quote, not after the old door is in the dumpster and the new one won’t fit. This is also when we talk about your manufacturer options side by side on paper, with real prices and real lead times.
2. 2
   Order and register. Once you choose a door, we place the order with the manufacturer and register both warranty layers in your name, in writing, with durations stated. The Keystone Standard means you walk away from the estimate with a document that says exactly what’s covered and for how long. No fine print that covers neither.
3. 3
   Remove the old door and inspect the rough opening. We cut the old door out carefully, preserving the interior trim whenever possible. Then we get a real look at what’s behind it. In Miami homes, especially older ones in Hialeah and North Miami, this is where we find the actual problems: rotten king studs, missing cripples, framing that was never pressure-treated. We won’t cover up a bad opening with a pretty new door. We’ll fix the framing first and tell you the cost before we proceed.
4. 4
   Set, shim, and seal. We set the new unit in the rough opening, shimming every hinge point and the lock side until the door is plumb, level, and square in all three dimensions. We use a 6-foot level and a laser for the long runs. Then we seal the perimeter with a continuous bead of high-grade sealant and install a sill pan under the threshold. On impact doors, we torque every anchor to the manufacturer’s schedule and document the install with photos for the permit record.
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   Walk through, clean up, and register on site. We run the door open and closed a dozen times, adjust the hinges and the threshold until the reveal is even and the latching is butter, and then we walk the job with you before we pack up. You sign off on the work. We leave the site cleaner than we found it. And we don’t leave until the second warranty registration is confirmed. If anything isn’t done right within 90 days, you call and we come back. That’s the Done Right Promise, in writing.

How Much Does Door Installation Cost in Miami?

Door Installation Near Miami - Our Service Area

TruePane Windows & Doors installs entry doors, hurricane doors, French doors, and storm doors across all of Miami-Dade County. Our technicians work regularly in Coral Gables, Doral, Miami Gardens, North Miami, Kendall, Cutler Bay, Aventura, Palmetto Bay, and Homestead. Same-day and next-day installation appointments are often available in Miami proper. We also serve Door Installation in Hialeah and Door Installation in Miami Beach, two communities where we’ve hung doors for decades. Punctuality is part of the job: we’ll be there when we say, uniformed, background-checked, and ready to work.

Frequently Asked Questions - Door Installation in Miami

Schedule Your Door Installation Service in Miami Today

Done right the first time is the standard on every door we hang, not the exception. We’ve been serving Miami homeowners for over 42 years, and we plan to be here for thirty more, answering the phone and standing behind our work. Call (561) 489-4036 to schedule your free, written, no-obligation estimate. We’ll be there when we say, and we’ll treat your home like our own mother’s.

Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Miami since 2008.