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Door installation in Delray Beach typically runs $1,800 to $6,500 for a standard entry door replacement, and $3,500 to $12,000+ for a hurricane-rated front entry system on the oceanfront corridor. In western Delray’s HOA communities, the real variable is not the door itself, it is the approval workflow. TruePane Windows & Doors has been setting doors square in Delray Beach long enough to know which questions the Kings Point architectural board will ask before the permit application lands on the desk. If you live in 33446, 33447, 33483, or 33484 and need a door that latches true in August humidity and holds up to salt air, call (888) 635-0804 and we will talk through the job the way Dale Kessler taught us: measure twice, quote on paper, and register both warranty layers before the truck leaves your driveway.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Delray Beach’s Preferred Door Installation Company
We are a second-generation glazier’s shop, not a franchise showroom. Dale Kessler founded TruePane in 2008 on a simple rule that still hangs on the whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That rule applies to every door we hang in Delray Beach, whether it is a Therma-Tru fiberglass entry on a CBS rancher in 33446 or a PGT impact-rated unit three blocks off A1A.
Homeowners in Delray Beach call us because we understand what their houses are made of. The concrete-block construction west of I-95 behaves differently than the raised beach cottages along the coastal ridge. The salt air in 33483 eats aluminum thresholds in fifteen years. The original rough openings in 1970s Kings Point villas were framed for single-panel steel doors, not for the thicker impact-rated jambs Florida code now requires. We know these conditions because we have worked through them, unit by unit, for years. A live person answers our phone 24 hours a day, every day, and the technician who shows up to measure your opening is background-checked, uniformed, and trained to treat your home the way he would treat his own mother’s. That is not marketing language; it is how we run a company that plans to be in Delray Beach in thirty years.
Our Door Installation Services in Delray Beach
Every Door Installation we perform in Delray Beach starts with the opening, not the slab. A door is only as square as the rough framing behind it, and in older South Florida homes that framing has often been moving for decades.
Entry Doors
A new front entry door in Delray Beach should do three things: seal against humid air, latch without a fight, and look like it belongs on the house. We stock and install fiberglass and wood entry systems sized to the common openings in Delray’s housing stock, from 1950s concrete-block ranch homes off Atlantic Avenue to the planned communities spread across 33446 and 33447. Every install includes re-shimming to manufacturer spec, fresh flashing, and a threshold that drains water away from the subfloor instead of into it.
Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors
This is the door Delray Beach actually needs within roughly a mile of the Atlantic. Florida Building Code requires openings in the coastal wind-borne debris region to be protected by impact-rated assemblies or approved shutters. We install Miami-Dade NOA certified impact doors from PGT and CGI, matched to the design pressure each opening requires. On A1A in 33483, we routinely specify large-missile rated units with laminated glass interlayers because the code demands it and the weather does not negotiate.
French & Double Doors
Double doors multiply every installation problem. Two active panels mean two sets of hinges to align, a shared astragal to seal, and twice the floor tolerance to accommodate. In Delray Beach’s older CBS homes, the original double-door rough openings were often framed without enough header support for today’s heavier impact-rated panels. We sister additional blocking, flash the opening to current Florida Product Approval details, and hang both leaves so the astragal meets cleanly at the center. Done right, a French door set in Delray Beach should close with one hand and stay sealed through a tropical storm.
Replacement Doors
Most replacement door jobs in Delray Beach are not simple swap-outs. The old aluminum threshold has corroded, or the sidelight jambs have rotted from condensation, or the original rough opening is half an inch too narrow for a code-compliant impact frame. We price the door, the opening corrections, and the weatherproofing as one written quote, which means the number we hand you before work starts is the number on the final bill. No surprise line items. That is the square deal, and it is the only way we work.
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 Delray Beach
TruePane is an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, and when we quote a door for your Delray Beach home we put the options side by side on paper so you can see exactly what you are buying. For oceanfront properties in 33483, we lean on PGT and CGI impact-rated systems because their Miami-Dade NOA certifications hold up under coastal inspection. For western Delray homes in 33446 and 33447, Therma-Tru fiberglass entry doors offer a strong balance of cost, insulation, and durability. We maintain local parts stock and direct manufacturer relationships, which means a replacement hinge, threshold, or weatherstrip for a door we installed does not take three weeks to arrive.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Delray Beach Homes
- Salt-corroded thresholds and jambs: On the barrier island and within a few blocks of A1A, the Atlantic spray works on aluminum door components year-round. We regularly pull original 15-year-old thresholds in 33483 that crumble in our hands, and the rot underneath is usually worse than the homeowner suspected.
- HOA approval roadblocks: In Kings Point and the surrounding 55-plus communities of western Delray Beach, the architectural review board must approve every exterior door replacement before the permit can move. Contractors who skip this step install the door and then cannot close the community-wide permit, leaving the homeowner with an unpermitted opening that fails wind mitigation inspection.
- Undersized rough openings: Original 1970s and 1980s rough openings in Delray’s CBS retirement stock were framed for thin steel or aluminum slabs. Today’s impact-rated frames are thicker and heavier, and forcing them into an undersized opening compromises the large-missile rating. The fix is re-shimming and sometimes reframing, which is exactly the kind of allowance we write into the contract upfront.
- Coastal wind code confusion: The Florida Building Code’s wind-borne debris region extends roughly a mile inland from the Atlantic. East of Federal Highway in Delray Beach, most openings require impact-rated protection. West of I-95, the requirements relax, but many buyers still choose impact-rated doors for the windstorm premium credit and because a code-compliant opening sells faster.
Pricing for Door Installation in Delray Beach, FL
A standard entry door replacement in Delray Beach runs $1,800 to $4,500 depending on whether the existing jamb can be reused and how much flashing correction the opening needs. A hurricane-rated front entry system adds significant cost: $3,500 to $8,500 for most single doors, with large-missile rated units from PGT or CGI on the oceanfront corridor running $6,000 to $12,000 installed. French or double door retrofits with impact glazing start around $5,000 and climb with framing corrections. In HOA communities like Kings Point, the architectural board approval process can add two to four weeks to the timeline, not because the work is harder but because the paperwork runs through a committee. Call (888) 635-0804 and we will measure your opening, walk you through the options, and hand you a written quote that covers the full job, not just the door slab.
What Door Installation Costs in Delray Beach
For planning purposes, impact-rated doors in Delray Beach generally fall between $2,500 and $7,500 per opening installed, with large or custom openings running $8,000 to $15,000. Whole-home door packages, such as a front entry plus a rear patio door plus a garage entry, typically land between $10,000 and $30,000 depending on wind zone, floor height, and how much framing correction the original openings require. The single biggest cost driver east of Federal Highway is wind zone: a door that must meet HVHZ large-missile standards costs more than a wind-borne debris rated unit installed five miles inland. We do not guess at design pressures; we look up the exact Florida Product Approval number for the opening and quote the unit that meets it. Every estimate includes a free in-home measure and a written quote. Call (888) 635-0804 to schedule yours.
Florida Pays You Back
Delray Beach homeowners who install impact-rated doors may qualify for several incentive programs at once. The My Safe Florida Home program offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, and many Delray Beach homeowners use that grant to offset the cost of a hurricane-rated front entry. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from state sales tax, which is a meaningful savings on a five-figure door package. The federal 25C energy credit can return 30% of the product cost, up to $600 per year, on qualifying units. And after a wind-mitigation inspection ($75 to $150), many insurers apply a windstorm premium credit averaging around 25% on the windstorm portion of the policy. Programs and carriers set the final numbers, so we cannot promise a specific dollar figure, but we will document your installation properly so you can pursue every credit available. That documentation matters, and it is part of the package we hand you when the job is done.
The Delray Beach Difference: HOAs, Permits, and Salt Air
Delray Beach is not one door market. It is three, and each one writes its own rules. East of Federal Highway in 33483, the oceanfront corridor along A1A subjects door frames, seals, and hardware to direct Atlantic salt spray that compresses product lifespan to roughly half what the same door would last inland. We have pulled corroded aluminum thresholds from beachfront entries that were only twelve years old and found the subfloor flashing eaten through underneath. In the middle of the city, the 1950s through 1980s single-family and low-rise condo stock mixes wood-frame and CBS construction, each with its own rough opening quirks. And in the western belt of 33446 and 33447, thousands of original aluminum-frame doors in 55-plus communities like Kings Point are aging out at the same time, which is why HOA boards are now bundling door replacement contracts across hundreds of units under a single Palm Beach County permit set.
That last point is where we see out-of-town contractors fail repeatedly in Delray Beach. They price a single door, install it, and then discover the HOA architectural board will not sign off because the unit was not specified to the community’s approved product list or the permit was never opened under the community-wide master application. The homeowner ends up with an unpermitted opening, a failed wind mitigation inspection, and a door that cannot be insured. TruePane has worked through enough Kings Point board approvals to know the workflow cold: product spec submitted to the architectural review board, board approval documented, permit pulled under the correct Palm Beach County set, installation documented with photos and product approvals, and the final inspection scheduled once the board’s inspector is available. We treat the board, not just the individual homeowner, as a stakeholder in the job, because in Delray’s HOA communities that is exactly what they are.
We also understand what opening up an older Delray Beach home actually turns up. Behind an original entry door on a 1978 CBS villa in 33446, we regularly find outdated wiring runs through the jamb, undersized header support, or failed waterproofing behind the threshold. When a permit triggers a code upgrade, those discoveries become part of the scope. Our process is inspection first, allowances written into the contract, and any surprise priced and approved in writing before we touch it. We replaced a corroded oceanfront entry door on A1A in 33483 with a Miami-Dade NOA certified impact-rated model from CGI, and the moment our tech pulled the old jamb we found the subfloor flashing had been eaten through by salt air. The original aluminum threshold was literally crumbling. We sistered new pressure-treated blocking, flashed the opening with peel-and-stick membrane to meet current Florida Product Approval details, and installed a laminated glass interlayer unit rated for large-missile impact, then documented the wind mitigation credits for the homeowner’s insurer. That is what done right means in Delray Beach.
The Done Right Promise and The Keystone Standard
Every door we install in Delray Beach is covered by the Done Right Promise. If something is not right, we make it right. No paperwork fights, no arguing, no fine print that covers neither. Behind that promise sits The Keystone Standard: both manufacturer warranty layers registered in writing, with durations stated, before our truck leaves your driveway. Most door companies hand you a door and a receipt. We hand you a documented warranty package and a phone number answered by a live person 24 hours a day. That is the difference between buying a door and buying a door that stays true.
We Also Serve Cities Near Delray Beach
TruePane serves Delray Beach and the surrounding coastal and inland communities, including Door Installation in Delray Beach and neighboring Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, Lake Worth, and Greenacres. If you live just over the city line, the same team, the same written quoting process, and the same Keystone Standard apply. Call (888) 635-0804 and tell us which city you are in, and we will schedule the measure at a time that fits your day.
Serving Delray Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Delray 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 Delray Beach
Yes. In HOA-governed communities like Kings Point, every exterior door replacement requires architectural review board approval before the permit can be pulled, and the unit must match the community’s approved product list and inspection standards. We handle the board submission, document the approval, and schedule the inspection once the board’s inspector is available. Call (888) 635-0804 and we will walk you through what your specific community requires.
If your home is within roughly one mile of the Atlantic, Florida Building Code wind-borne debris requirements apply, and large-missile rated units are typically required for doors in the coastal HVHZ zone. The exact requirement depends on your elevation, exposure category, and distance from the mean high-water line. We determine the correct rating from the Florida Product Approval documentation for your specific opening. Call us for a free measure and we will tell you exactly what your house requires.
Usually not. In Delray Beach’s 1970s and 1980s CBS homes, a jamb pulling away from the block means the anchorage has failed or the rough opening was never properly flashed, and replacing only the slab leaves both problems in place. A code-compliant impact door also requires a thicker jamb than the original aluminum frame. We quote the full opening correction, not just the slab, so the number you approve covers the actual work. Call (888) 635-0804 for a written quote.
In most cases, yes. Many insurers apply a windstorm premium credit averaging around 25% on the windstorm portion of the policy once a wind-mitigation inspection documents the impact-rated opening. The credit amount depends on your carrier, your policy, and the inspection report, so we cannot promise a specific figure. What we can promise is that we document the installation properly so your inspection will hold up.
HVHZ stands for High Velocity Hurricane Zone, a stricter Florida Building Code standard that applies to Miami-Dade and Broward counties and, in Palm Beach County, to the coastal portions of the county including much of Delray Beach east of Federal Highway. Boynton Beach, just south, shares a similar coastal boundary, but the exact HVHZ line changes from block to block near the water. We verify each opening’s wind zone from the county’s official map and quote the unit that meets the requirement. Call (888) 635-0804 and we will check your specific address.
Get Your Free Door Installation Estimate in Delray Beach
If you live in Delray Beach and need a door that latches true, seals the humid air out, and stands up to whatever the Atlantic sends your way, call TruePane Windows & Doors at (888) 635-0804. We will measure your existing opening, quote the right door for your wind zone and your HOA’s rules, and hand you a written price that covers the whole job. The measure is free, the quote is free, and a live person answers the phone whenever you call. If the pane is not true, the job is not done, and neither are we.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Delray Beach with square doors and straight answers since 2008.