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Fast, Reliable Door Installation Across Coral Gables
Door installation in Coral Gables runs $1,900 to $7,500 for a standard entry or swing door, and $4,000 to $14,000 for a custom arched or impact-rated door with architectural review. Those numbers reflect what we actually see on jobs from the Biltmore area down to the Riviera section. The bigger issue in Coral Gables isn’t the install itself. It’s the two approvals every exterior door has to clear before the work can even be scheduled, and we walk every customer through both. Call (954) 507-3613 for a free estimate, and we’ll tell you exactly what your specific home will require.
We’re TruePane Windows & Doors, and we’ve been doing this long enough to know that a door in Coral Gables is not the same job as a door anywhere else. The masonry walls are thicker, the openings are deeper, and the city has a Board of Architects that pays attention. If you’re replacing a front door or an arched side entry, you want a crew that’s already pulled permits here and knows what the reviewers look for. Our Door Installation team handles the full process: NOA documentation, architectural review filing, install, inspection, and warranty registration in writing before we leave.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Coral Gables’s Preferred Door Installation Company
We’ve installed Impact Windows & Doors in Coral Gables on Old Cutler Road, throughout the Granada golf course neighborhoods, and in the French Normandy and Spanish Revival blocks near Coral Gables City Hall. Homeowners here don’t want a sales pitch. They want someone who reads the Board of Architects’ design guidelines before quoting the job, and who can tell them whether a PGT impact door with a 2-piece muntin will pass review or get flagged. We can, because we’ve watched those reviews go both ways, and we learned from every one. Dale Kessler, who founded this company, keeps one rule on the whiteboard: if the frame isn’t set square, the job is not done. That rule shows up in how level our reveals are on the stucco-heavy homes along Alhambra Circle.
We also answer our phone. A live person picks up 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because when a door binds after a summer storm or a salt-air hinge seizes up two days before a family gathering, you need to talk to someone who knows what to do. That’s the whole point of being a local company that plans to be here in thirty years. The work is covered by our Done Right Promise, backed by The Keystone Standard: both manufacturer warranty layers registered in writing, with durations stated before the truck leaves your driveway. That means if something isn’t right, we make it right. No paperwork fights.
Serving Coral Gables means we schedule around architectural review timelines and HVHZ inspection slots, not the other way around. Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our South Florida office, and the crews working your street are local, uniformed, background-checked, and trained as apprentices before they ever touch a customer’s door jamb.
Our Door Installation Services in Coral Gables
Entry & Swing Doors
Entry and swing doors in Coral Gables are where the Board of Architects gets involved most often. A standard white vinyl impact door that’s perfectly legal in most of Miami-Dade will not pass review on a 1920s Mediterranean home along Hardee Road or San Vicente Street. We quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper so you can see the difference between Andersen service in Coral Gables for a swing door with a dark bronze finish and a Jeld-Wen steel door with a paintable wood-grain profile. We also measure every rough opening twice, because the deep reveals in solid coral rock walls mean the frame depth has to be right the first time. A typical entry door install runs $2,200 to $5,800, with architectural review filing added in.

Double & French Doors
Double French doors facing a back garden or loggia are common in the older homes around Riviera and Tahiti Beach. These openings are often wider than modern standard units, which means the rough opening has to be reframed or custom-width units have to be ordered. We’ve installed Sliding & Patio Doors in Coral Gables from Milgard and PGT with impact glass that hold the same slender sightlines as the original wood. Salt air from Biscayne Bay gets into hardware quickly, so we specify marine-grade hinges and handles on every door that faces the water, and we explain that decision in your quote rather than hiding it in a line item. Budget $3,500 to $9,000 for a double French door with impact glazing.

Bifold & Folding Doors
Bifold and folding doors in Coral Gables are typically used to open a family room or kitchen onto a courtyard or pool terrace. The HVHZ requirement means every panel has to be impact-rated, and the track system has to handle wind-load deflection without binding. We’ve installed folding door systems on contemporary homes off LeJeune Road where the homeowners wanted full open spans. The heavy panels require a reinforced header, and the flashing detail where the track meets a stucco exterior has to be done carefully or water finds its way in. A four-panel folding door with impact glass runs $8,000 to $16,000 depending on panel width and hardware finish.

Pivot Doors
Pivot doors have become popular on newer and renovated homes in the Cocoplum and Gables Estates sections. They’re heavier than a standard swing door, and the pivot hinge hardware carries the full weight of the slab, so the header engineering matters more than anything else. We’ve done pivot doors where the Board of Architects required a specific finish to match existing bronze hardware elsewhere on the house. In Coral Gables, the wind-load rating applies to the pivot hardware as well as the door panel itself. A pivot door with an impact-rated panel typically runs $6,000 to $14,000, not counting any structural header work.

What happens when you call
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Coral Gables
We are an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, and for Coral Gables work we lean heavily on PGT, Jeld-Wen, and Simonton because their Energy-Efficient Windows in Coral Gables and impact-rated units have clean NOA documentation and profiles that often pass architectural review. We do not have a house brand we push. We quote multiple manufacturers side by side on paper so you can see what you’re paying for, and we register both warranty layers before the truck leaves your driveway. If you already have a PGT door that’s binding or a Simonton unit with a failed seal, we service those in Coral Gables and keep common replacement parts stocked for faster turnaround.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Coral Gables Homes
- A code-compliant impact door rejected by the Board of Architects. The door had a Miami-Dade NOA, the permit was pulled, and the install went fine. Then the city flagged the muntin pattern or finish color as incompatible with the home’s Mediterranean character. The door had to come out and be reordered. This is the most expensive mistake a homeowner can make in Coral Gables, and it’s entirely avoidable with a pre-permit architectural review.
- Standard-depth frames in deep masonry openings. Coral Gables’s 1920s and 1930s homes have thick coral rock or concrete block walls with non-standard rough opening depths. A stock frame set flush to the exterior can sit proud of the interior jamb, leaving gaps that flashing tape and trim can’t hide. Water gets in at the threshold and the rotted jamb shows up two rainy seasons later.
- Salt-air corrosion on hardware and frames. Homes facing Biscayne Bay or within a few blocks of it get constant salt spray. Standard hinges, handles, and thresholds corrode within a few seasons. We specify marine-grade finishes on every water-facing door. It adds cost up front and saves the replacement later.
- Arched door replacement that loses the original geometry. Original arched wood doors rot at the bottom, but the city wants the arch preserved. The right fix is a custom impact-rated arched door with the same radius and sightlines, not a rectangular door squeezed into an arched opening with a fill panel. We’ve done these replacements on homes near the Biltmore, and the architectural review goes smoother when the design intent matches the original.
Pricing for Door Installation in Coral Gables, FL
Here’s what we quote in Coral Gables, for real. A standard entry or swing door with impact glazing runs $2,200 to $5,800 installed. A double French door is $3,500 to $9,000. A custom arched door matching an original 1920s profile runs $4,500 to $12,000, depending on the radius and the approval timeline. A pivot door starts around $6,000 and goes up from there. A storm door is the most affordable option at $900 to $1,800, though storm doors on the primary entrance rarely pass architectural review on historic homes. What changes the price: the width of your rough opening, whether the wall is coral rock or concrete block, the finish the Board of Architects requires, and whether we need to replace rotted framing or flashing. We give written line-item quotes. We don’t change the price after the job starts unless we find rot or structural damage we couldn’t see before opening the wall, and we show you photos before doing any extra work. Call (954) 507-3613 to schedule a free estimate, and we’ll give you numbers for your specific door and opening.
We Also Serve Cities Near Coral Gables
Our crews work all over the area around Door Installation in Coral Gables, and we often run jobs for homeowners in Miami and Key Biscayne in the same week. If your home sits outside city limits but you need the same HVHZ and architectural review expertise, call us. We know the local requirements in every neighboring municipality and we’ll tell you honestly what your job needs.
Serving Coral Gables, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Coral Gables 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 Coral Gables
Yes, for any exterior door on a home in a historic district or on the city’s list of protected structures, and we recommend architectural review for every exterior door in Coral Gables regardless of designation. The Board of Architects enforces the city’s 1920s Mediterranean Revival aesthetic, and they can reject a Miami-Dade NOA-certified impact door for a muntin pattern, finish color, or frame width that doesn’t match the original character. We file the architectural review as part of the job, before we order the door, so you don’t pay for a unit that will get flagged. Call (954) 507-3613 and we’ll check your address against the city’s requirements.
In most of Coral Gables, no. The Board of Architects routinely rejects standard white vinyl impact doors because the profile, frame width, and finish don’t match the original Mediterranean Revival character of the home. That’s the one fact about this city that surprises homeowners the most. A white vinyl door that’s perfectly compliant under Miami-Dade HVHZ code will get flagged here. We quote custom aluminum or wood-clad impact doors with finished to match, and we submit the architectural review before the door is ordered. Call (954) 507-3613 for an exact quote on your opening.
Every exterior door in Coral Gables must meet the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone standards set by Miami-Dade County, which means the entire unit: the door slab, the frame, the hardware, and the glazing, must carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance. That NOA document is specific to the exact product and the exact frame combination. We pull the NOA for every door we install and we give you a copy before the job starts. If a door doesn’t carry an NOA, it can’t be permitted in Coral Gables, no matter what the sales brochure says. Call (954) 507-3613 for an estimate that includes the right documentation.
Often yes, but the insurance company will want documentation: the Miami-Dade NOA for the door, the permit, the passed inspection, and sometimes a photograph of the installed unit with the NOA label visible. We provide all of that at handoff. Coral Gables is fully within the HVHZ, so a properly documented impact door installation is one of the few upgrades that actually moves the premium dial. We register both manufacturer warranty layers in writing as part of The Keystone Standard, and the paperwork goes into your file before the truck leaves. Call (954) 507-3613 and we’ll tell you what documentation to request from your insurer.
Yes, and we do this regularly on the 1920s and 1930s homes around the Biltmore and the Granada neighborhoods. The answer is a custom impact-rated arched door fabricated to match the original radius and sightlines, with a finish that clears the Board of Architects review. On a 1938 Mediterranean Revival home near the Biltmore, our crew replaced a corroded original steel casement entry door with a custom Andersen impact-rated swing door that matched the slender sightlines the Board required, but only after pulling the NOA, filing for architectural review, and staging the install around the home’s 14-inch coral rock rough opening. The old steel jamb had rusted through from decades of Biscayne Bay salt air, so we welded a new flashing tape-sealed buck and reinstalled the original arched transom before the final inspection. Your arch stays. The door becomes something that will hold in a storm and still look like it belongs on the house. Call (954) 507-3613 for a free estimate on your specific door.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors
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.



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