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AfterFast, Reliable Door Installation Across Fort Lauderdale
A new front door or impact-rated entry door in Fort Lauderdale typically costs $1,200 to $4,800 installed, and most standard swaps are completed in a single day once your door arrives. We’re Winslow Windows & Doors, and we’ve been installing doors in Fort Lauderdale’s older coastal neighborhoods long enough to know exactly what’s behind the old jamb before we pull it. If you’re in Victoria Park, Coral Ridge, Rio Vista, or anywhere along the 33307 to 33310 corridor, call (844) 901-4551 and you’ll get Ed Winslow’s team, not a call center.
What makes Fort Lauderdale different from the rest of Florida is simple: every square inch of this city sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the same wind zone as Miami-Dade. That changes what door you can buy, how it has to be installed, and what your inspector will demand before we ever open a wall. We plan for all of it up front so the quote you get is the price you pay.
Why Winslow Windows & Doors Is Fort Lauderdale’s Preferred Door Installation Company
Ed Winslow founded this company in 2011 and put his name on it for a reason. When a Fort Lauderdale homeowner calls us about a sticking front door or a failed impact slider, they’re talking to a business that publishes its address and license number, answers the phone with a live person 24 hours a day, and sends background-checked, uniformed technicians to every job. That’s not marketing language. It’s how we operate.
Our Door Installation team has pulled more than its share of corroded aluminum sliders and swollen wood entry doors out of mid-century concrete-block homes across Fort Lauderdale. We know what a 1968 Coral Ridge ranch hides behind its trim. We know what a 1974 Victoria Park jamb looks like after fifty years of salt air. And we write our quotes knowing those conditions exist, which means you don’t get a surprise change order the day of install.
Every Fort Lauderdale job comes with the Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we make it right. Period. No fine print, no proration, no arguing about whose fault it is. That’s a standard no big-box installer will match, and it’s backed by the fact that Ed’s name is on the door and on every job we do.
Our Door Installation Services in Fort Lauderdale
Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors
In Fort Lauderdale, an entry door isn’t just a door. It’s a structural component that has to pass Broward County’s HVHZ inspection, which means it needs a current Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance and an installation that follows that NOA to the letter. We install impact-rated front doors from PGT, CGI, and Therma-Tru with the exact fasteners, flashing, and sill pans the NOA specifies. If the NOA calls for 4-inch structural screws at six-inch spacing, that’s what goes in the wall, and we photograph it before the trim covers it.
Replacement Doors
Most of the homes in Fort Lauderdale’s core ZIP codes, 33301 through 33309, were built between the 1950s and 1970s, and the original doors are nearly always out of compliance with current wind standards. We replace them with impact-rated units engineered for the opening, not just whatever fits the rough frame. That means checking the subfloor, the header, and the rough opening dimensions against the NOA before the new door is even ordered, because a half-inch difference in framing depth can fail an inspection in this city.
Storm & Exterior Doors
Fort Lauderdale averages over 3,000 hours of sun a year, and salt spray off the city’s 165 miles of inland waterways hits homes from directions that don’t exist anywhere else in the state. That’s why we spec marine-grade hardware and frame coatings on every exterior door we install near the water, even on homes a mile from the ocean. A storm door that rusts shut in two years is a false economy here.
Entry Doors
A front door replacement in Fort Lauderdale often starts because the old one sticks half the year, lets water wick in during summer downpours, or simply looks tired. But once we pull the old jamb, we regularly find what Broward County inspectors now require us to address: rotted subfloor from years of salt-air intrusion, undersized headers from pre-code construction, and unpermitted wiring from decades-old DIY projects. We price the job with written allowances for these discoveries so you know exactly what a worst-case scenario costs before we touch anything.
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 Fort Lauderdale
Winslow Windows & Doors is an authorized installer for PGT, CGI, and Therma-Tru, among others. That matters in Fort Lauderdale because not every brand carries Miami-Dade NOA certifications across their full product line. We stock local parts and have direct supply relationships for these manufacturers in South Florida, which keeps lead times shorter than an out-of-state retailer. When you call (844) 901-4551 about a door in Fort Lauderdale, we know which product lines will pass Broward County inspection and which ones won’t, and we won’t sell you the latter.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Fort Lauderdale Homes
- Salt-water rot behind the old jamb. Fifty years of salt spray and failed caulk eats the rough opening from the inside. We find this on nearly every pre-1990 exterior door we pull in Coral Ridge and Rio Vista, and it has to be reframed with pressure-treated lumber before the new door goes in or the install will sag within a year.
- Non-NOA doors failing inspection. A door with Florida Product Approval but no Miami-Dade NOA will fail a Broward County inspection in Fort Lauderdale, full stop. We’ve seen homeowners order a perfectly good impact door online, only to have the inspector reject it and force a reorder with a two-week delay while the opening sits covered in plywood.
- Undersized headers on mid-century ranch homes. The 1950s and 1960s concrete-block homes that dominate Victoria Park and the 33308 ZIP were built before modern wind-load calculations. We regularly find headers that don’t meet current HVHZ standards for the opening, and they have to be upgraded before the door can be approved.
- UV-degraded glazing and gaskets. Fort Lauderdale’s 3,000+ annual hours of direct sun breaks down door glass seals and frame gaskets far faster than in most of the country. A door that looks fine from the outside may have lost its large-missile impact rating simply because the laminated glass has delaminated or the gasket has gone brittle.
Pricing for Door Installation in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A standard entry door replacement in Fort Lauderdale runs $1,200 to $2,800. An impact-rated hurricane front door from PGT or CGI typically lands between $2,500 and $4,800 installed, depending on opening size, glass configuration, and which NOA rating applies to your specific wind zone. Large or custom openings, like a double French door or a modern pivot entry, run $5,000 to $12,000. Every Fort Lauderdale quote includes a free in-home measure, a written line-item price, and allowances for the framing and waterproofing repairs we expect to find. You’ll never get a quote over the phone and then a bigger invoice after the wall is open. Call (844) 901-4551 for your free estimate.
What Door Installation Costs in Fort Lauderdale
Let’s talk real numbers for the Fort Lauderdale market. A basic replacement door without impact glazing starts around $1,200 installed. An impact-rated front entry door runs $2,500 to $4,800. A double French door with impact glass, a common upgrade in Rio Vista and Coral Ridge, lands between $5,000 and $9,000. Whole-home packages where you replace every exterior door at once typically run $8,000 to $18,000, and if you’re doing doors plus impact windows across a full remodel, the combined project can reach $25,000 or more.
What moves the price in Fort Lauderdale specifically is the opening count, your wind zone, floor height, and frame material. A third-floor condo door on the beach faces higher design pressures than a ground-level ranch in Broadview Park, and that changes which NOA-rated product you can use. We write every quote after a free in-home measure and a written line-item estimate, so you see exactly what you’re paying for before you sign anything.
Florida Pays You Back
Fort Lauderdale homeowners who install impact-rated doors can stack several incentives. My Safe Florida Home now offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, and a new impact front door falls under that umbrella for eligible homes. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax, which saves 6% on the product portion right away. The federal 25C energy credit can return 30% of the product cost, up to $600 per year, on qualifying energy-efficient units.
Most Fort Lauderdale homeowners also see a windstorm-premium reduction after a wind-mitigation inspection. Inspections run $75 to $150, and the credit averages around 25% on the windstorm portion of your policy after impact-rated doors and windows are documented. We can’t guarantee what your carrier will do, and neither should anyone else. But the inspection is cheap insurance on its own, and a new impact door is one of the few home improvements that pays a monthly dividend.
We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Lauderdale
Beyond Fort Lauderdale proper, our crews install doors in Lauderhill, Lauderdale Lakes, Plantation, and Broadview Park. If you’re in one of these communities and need the same Door Installation in Fort Lauderdale standards applied to your home, we treat every job with the same HVHZ paperwork discipline and the same no-surprise pricing. Call (844) 901-4551 and a live person answers, day or night.
Serving Fort Lauderdale, FL — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale
In most cases, no, a single door replacement won’t trigger a whole-house window mandate on its own. What triggers the whole-house upgrade requirement is when Broward County determines the work constitutes a “substantial improvement” to the home, which typically happens on larger remodels where the cost exceeds 50% of the structure’s value. That said, if you’re already pulling permits for a kitchen remodel or an addition and the project crosses that threshold, yes, every window and door in the house has to be brought up to current impact-rated standards. Our advice is to call (844) 901-4551 before you pull any permits, and we’ll tell you what your specific project will actually trigger based on the scope and the home’s assessed value.
Because Fort Lauderdale sits entirely inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, a designation it shares only with Miami-Dade County. Under the Florida Building Code, any product installed in the HVHZ must carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, which is a more rigorous testing and certification standard than Florida Product Approval. Florida Product Approval alone will fail a Broward County inspection here, and the inspector won’t issue a variance for it. We won’t sell you a door that can’t pass in Fort Lauderdale, and we’ll pull the NOA documentation for your specific product and opening before we ever order it.
What’s happening is almost certainly salt-water intrusion through failed caulk or flashing around the jamb, which has rotted the rough opening or the subfloor beneath it. The door sticks in summer because the frame is swelling with moisture absorbed during our rainy season, and the water stains tell you where the water is getting in. We see this constantly on pre-1990 homes in Fort Lauderdale, especially within a mile of the Intracoastal. The fix is to pull the door, reframe the opening with pressure-treated lumber if needed, install a proper composite sill pan and flashing, and re-hang the door. Call (844) 901-4551 and we’ll inspect it for free.
No, and any contractor who tells you otherwise is setting you up for a failed inspection. Impact-rated glass inserts are engineered products that must be installed in a door frame and system tested together as a unit. You can’t field-modify a 1960s solid-wood door with an impact glass insert and expect it to pass Broward County’s HVHZ review. The old wood door also won’t carry a NOA, which means the entire assembly fails. The right move is a replacement impact-rated door from a manufacturer like PGT, CGI, or Therma-Tru that has already been tested and certified as a complete unit. We’ll show you options from all three.
After we install your impact-rated door and you complete a wind-mitigation inspection (typically $75 to $150), your insurance carrier can apply a windstorm-premium credit based on the documented improvements. That credit averages around 25% on the windstorm portion of the policy, which in Fort Lauderdale is often a meaningful chunk of the total premium because of our HVHZ designation. The credit isn’t guaranteed, but a new impact door also protects you from the deductible math during storm season. Call (844) 901-4551 for a free estimate and we’ll walk you through what to ask your agent.
What Your Fort Lauderdale Inspector Will Demand Before We Open the Wall
Here’s what most homeowners in Fort Lauderdale don’t hear until the inspector is standing in their living room: before any permit is issued for a door replacement in the HVHZ, the product must have a current Miami-Dade NOA, and the installation must follow that NOA’s exact specifications. Not Florida Product Approval. Not a manufacturer’s generic install guide. The specific NOA for that specific product. Because Fort Lauderdale sits entirely within the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, shared only with Miami-Dade County, a door swap in Sailboat Bend can trigger a full permit review that uncovers subfloor rot and undersized framing hidden behind the old jamb. We pull the NOA paperwork for your exact product and opening before the permit application goes in, and we write the quote with allowances for the framing and waterproofing repairs we find once the old door comes out.
On a 1960s concrete-block ranch in Coral Ridge, our crew pulled a corroded aluminum slider to find the rough opening had rotted from years of salt-air intrusion through failed caulk. We reframed with pressure-treated lumber to the exact dimensions of the PGT Therma-Tru door’s NOA, installed new flashing and a composite sill pan, and secured the jamb with 4-inch structural screws per HVHZ spec, then sealed the gap with a marine-grade polyurethane caulk so the next 50 years of salt spray won’t find a path. That’s the standard we bring to every Fort Lauderdale door, because in this wind zone, a door that isn’t installed to NOA spec is a door that becomes a hole in your wall during a storm.
If you’re weighing a big-box retail install against a licensed impact specialist, consider this: the retail installer may not even know Fort Lauderdale requires a NOA. We do. And the difference between a door that passes inspection and one that gets red-tagged is often the difference between a $2,500 job and a $7,500 reorder. One neighbor you can call at 2 a.m., and someone will actually answer. That’s us. Call (844) 901-4551 for your free estimate, and let’s get your Fort Lauderdale home buttoned up right.
Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving Fort Lauderdale since 2011.