Door Installation in Coral Gables - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Trusted Door Installation for Coral Gables Homeowners

A door that sticks in August, lets afternoon heat pour through the jamb, or no longer latches square is a door that has stopped doing its job. In Coral Gables, where humidity and salt air work on wood and hardware year-round, we replace and install doors that hold their line, seal tight, and operate the way the manufacturer intended. TruePane Windows & Doors has served Coral Gables homeowners since 2008 through a second-generation glazier’s craft tradition, and every installation is backed by our Done Right Promise and The Keystone Standard. If the pane is not true, the job is not done. Call (954) 507-3613 for a free estimate.

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What Our Door Installation Service Includes

We install six categories of doors for Coral Gables homes, each with its own frame geometry, hardware requirements, and weatherproofing needs. Every job starts with the same habit: we measure every opening twice, quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper, and register both warranty layers in writing before the truck leaves the driveway.

Entry & Swing Doors

An entry door carries the heaviest daily load of any opening in the house, and in Coral Gables it also carries the first impression. We install wood, fiberglass, and steel entry & swing doors with a focus on getting the reveal even on all three sides so the weatherstripping seats fully and the latch engages without lifting or slamming. Most entry door replacements in Coral Gables take us a single visit, including removal of the old slab, new hinges and threshold, and full caulk and seal work. We set the door in its rough opening with shims at the hinge and strike locations, not just where the gaps happen to fall, because a door that is shimmed wrong will bind in July when the frame swells.

Double & French Doors

Double doors fail in pairs, and the most common problem we see in Coral Gables is an astragal that was never adjusted after the house settled. We install double & French doors with the active and inactive leaves aligned so the meeting stiles touch top to bottom without wearing the center seals. Our crews set both leaves in the same plane, adjust the top and bottom pivots so the inactive leaf locks without dragging, and then walk the client through the finished swing so there are no surprises on the first humid afternoon. We also replace French door thresholds with proper sill pans that direct water away from the interior floor, which in Coral Gables means the difference between dry tile and a slow rot behind the baseboard.

Bifold & Folding Doors

Bifold and folding doors open the back wall of a Coral Gables house to the patio, pool deck, or garden, and everything about that opening has to be level and plumb or the panels will never glide. We install aluminum and wood bifold & folding door systems with a focus on the carrier beam: it must be dead level, anchored to structure, and sized for the door weight, not just the rough opening. Our technicians spend the extra hour on the bottom track, because a track that is even 1/8 inch out of level will make the panels creep and stutter every time someone slides them. When the job is done, we leave the homeowner with the manufacturer’s adjustment guide, registered warranty paperwork, and our Done Right Promise in writing.

Pivot Doors

Pivot doors are heavy, often 300 pounds or more, and they rotate on a top and bottom hinge point rather than side hinges, which means the floor anchor has to be exact. We install pivot doors in Coral Gables with our own laser-level verification of the floor plate before the slab ever gets hung, because a floor plate that is off by a few degrees turns a beautiful door into a constant fight. We set the pivot points with the manufacturer’s recommended tolerances, hang the slab with at least two technicians, and then test the swing fully open and fully closed before we call the job done. A pivot door that swings true on day one and day four hundred is the standard we work to, and it is the reason we recommend pivot doors for Coral Gables homes with wide entries and modern elevations.

Storm Doors

A storm door in Coral Gables is not about snow; it is about letting the morning breeze through while keeping insects, rain, and the worst of the afternoon sun outside. We install full-view and retractable-screen storm doors with closers that are adjusted to the weight of the door so it does not slam or drift open. Our crews pay close attention to the Z-bar mounting system, because a storm door that is screwed into rotted brickmold will sag within a season no matter how good the door itself is. We replace rotted or deteriorated brickmold before the storm door goes up, then set the door so the sweep seals evenly against the sill and the deadbolt or night latch reinforces the existing entry door rather than fighting it.

Arched & Custom Doors

Arched & custom doors are where a stock manufacturer’s template stops helping and skilled measurement starts mattering. In Coral Gables, where Spanish Mediterranean and Old Spanish Revival architecture is common, we regularly build and install arched doors with radius tops, custom glass lites, and hand-finished wood grain that matches flanking windows or original millwork. Dale Kessler has always kept the same rule on his whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done, and an arched door is the sharpest test of that rule. We template the opening, order the door to a 1/8-inch tolerance, and install it with the same patience we would use in our own homes.

Brands We Service for Door Installation

We are an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, and we carry the training and the warranty relationship for each one. On Jeld-Wen doors, we have installed and serviced everything from standard entry slabs to their premium wood and clad lines, and we know their product numbers well enough to order replacement hardware or glass without a callback to the distributor. On PGT doors, which are common in Coral Gables because of their impact-rated lines, we follow the brand’s installation protocols exactly, because a PGT impact door only carries its wind-load and missile ratings if it is set, anchored, and sealed the way PGT specifies. Simonton and Ply Gem units round out the lines we see most often in Coral Gables, and our technicians quote these brands side by side on paper so the homeowner sees exactly what they are buying. Whether you have one of these makes or any other brand already in your home, we can assess it, measure it, and install the replacement to the same standard.

The brand matters less than the installation, and that is the honest truth we give every Coral Gables customer. A premium door hung out of square will leak, bind, and fail early, and no manufacturer warranty covers a bad install. When we install Jeld-Wen, PGT, Simonton, or Ply Gem doors, we register both warranty layers in writing before the truck leaves the driveway, and we state the durations plainly. That is The Keystone Standard, and it is how we have kept doors closing square in Coral Gables since 2008.

Signs You Need Door Installation Right Now

• You lift or shoulder the door every time you close it. A door that scrapes the jamb or drags on the threshold means the frame has settled or the hinges have sagged. In Coral Gables, seasonal humidity makes the problem worse, and forcing the door only spreads the hinge gap further. If the reveal is uneven by more than 1/8 inch, the fix is usually a new door set square in a corrected opening.
• Daylight shows around the closed door. Stand inside with the door shut and look at the perimeter. If you can see light, conditioned air is leaving and humid outdoor air is coming in. In a Coral Gables summer, that gap also invites the afternoon heat and the higher electric bill that follows. A properly installed door seals evenly on all four sides, and light from a corner is a sign the seal has failed or the door was never set true.
• The door will not stay latched without the deadbolt. A latch that slips out of the strike plate means the door and the frame are no longer in the same plane. This is a security issue first and an alignment issue second, because a door that relies on the deadbolt alone is one good shove from being open. We re-set or replace doors in Coral Gables where this has been ignored for years, and the difference in how the latch snap feels is immediate.
• Soft spots or visible rot at the bottom of the door or threshold. In Coral Gables, where afternoon storms and humidity are constants, a rotted door bottom is a sign that water has been standing where it should not. The rot will not stop, and patching it with filler buys a season at best. The right fix is a new door with a properly pitched sill pan and sealed threshold that directs water away from the interior.
• The door is original to a house built before 1990. That door has outlived its hardware, its weatherstripping, and in many cases its insulation value. We have replaced pre-1990 doors across Coral Gables, and while the old ones had character, they also had single-pane glass, no thermal break, and frames that had been shimmed too many times. A new door, installed square and sealed, changes how the whole entry feels and how hard the air conditioner has to work.

Our Door Installation Process - Step by Step

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   Measure the opening, twice. Every job starts with the opening, not the old door. We measure width, height, and diagonal at three points each, because a rough opening that has settled or shifted will not accept a stock door without correction. We also check the floor for level and the surrounding walls for plumb, because both affect how the door will hang and swing.
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   Quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper. You will not get a single brand pushed on you. We bring the specs, the prices, and the warranty durations for the lines that fit your opening, and we lay them out on paper so you can compare what you are actually buying. That is a square deal, the only way we quote.
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   Remove the old door and correct the rough opening. After the old slab comes out, we inspect the rough opening for rot, shim pack rot, and out-of-square conditions. In Coral Gables homes, we often find that previous installers shimmed only around the midpoint, so we re-shim at the hinge and strike locations where the load actually sits. If the sill has rotted, we replace it before anything else goes in.
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   Set the new door, square and plumb. We hang the slab, shim it true, and check the reveal on all three sides with a straightedge. We set the threshold on a proper sill pan, flash the exterior, and seal the interior with backer rod and caulk that will move with the foundation. The latch is adjusted to engage cleanly without lifting, and the sweep is set to seal evenly across the sill.
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   Register the warranties, walk the job, and leave it done right. Before the truck leaves your driveway, we register both manufacturer warranty layers in writing and hand you the paperwork with the durations stated. Then we walk the door with you: open, close, latch, deadbolt, threshold step-over, and the view from outside. If the pane is not true, the job is not done, and we do not leave until it is.

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Door Installation Near Coral Gables - Our Service Area

TruePane Windows & Doors serves Coral Gables and the surrounding communities including Pinecrest, Olympia Heights, Coral Terrace, Glenvar Heights, Key Biscayne, South Miami, Palmetto Bay, West Miami, Kendall, Sunset, and Westchester. We schedule door installations across this area the same way we have since 2008: punctual, uniformed, prepared, and we will be there when we say. If you are in Pinecrest and need a front entry door set true, we are the same crew with the same standard. Read more about our Door Installation in Pinecrest or our Door Installation in Olympia Heights if you live in those neighborhoods.

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Schedule Your Door Installation Service in Coral Gables Today

A door that does not close square is not something you have to live with for another Coral Gables summer. Call TruePane Windows & Doors at (954) 507-3613 and we will measure, quote, and walk you through your options. The estimate is free and there is no obligation. A live person answers the phone, and our doors are done right, in writing, every time.

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