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Door replacement in Clovis runs $380 – $2,400 for a standard interior slab swap and $1,900 – $7,500 for a new exterior prehung unit, installed. Those ranges cover what we actually see in the neighborhoods between Harlan Ranch, Dry Creek Trail, and the Old Town Clovis grid. We quote it in writing before we cut so much as a shim, so the number on your invoice is the number you approved. That’s the rule our crews work under in Clovis, no exceptions. Call (682) 281-2168 and you’ll talk to a live person who can get your Clovis project on the calendar.
Why Juniper Windows & Doors Is Clovis’s Preferred Door Replacement Company
We work the San Joaquin Valley’s non-coastal climate zone every week, and we spec doors for it differently than a contractor quoting from a coastal playbook would. Sean Mackey runs our crews with a simple bar: the door has to close true on a 105-degree afternoon without dragging, and the price has to hold from the estimate to the final digital invoice. Clovis homeowners tell us the same thing after jobs wrap: the written price, the live arrival time, and the photo updates took the guesswork out of a project they’d been dreading.
Background-checked, uniformed technicians show up to every Clovis job. You know who’s walking through your door because we told you before they left the shop. Our 365-Day Done Right Promise backs that visit in writing: if the work isn’t right, parts and labor are covered for a full year. We also answer our phones 24/7 with a real person. No voicemail maze, no callback queue. Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our Fresno, Central Valley office, but the crews serving Clovis are local to the area and know the streets, the housing stock, and the permitting office.
Interior Door Replacement in Clovis
Interior Door Replacement in Clovis usually means pulling a hollow-core builder slab that’s warped, delaminating, or binding and setting a properly weighted solid-core or panel door in its place. We see a lot of this in the newer subdivisions off Fowler Avenue and Shepherd Avenue, where production builders installed lightweight slabs that move with the Valley’s dry summer air. A slab swap typically runs $380 – $900 including hinges, hardware, and disposal of the old door, assuming the jamb is square and the hinges are still seated well.
Slab Swap vs. Full Prehung
If the jamb is racked or the door has been trimmed poorly by a previous install, a prehung replacement runs $900 – $2,400 in Clovis, and it’s usually the smarter fix. Rehanging a slab in a compromised frame just migrates the same problem to a new door. We measure the rough opening, check the reveal on all three sides, and tell you which direction makes sense before any work starts.
When to Stop Patching and Replace
Squeaks you can fix. Splits at the hinge mortises, daylight at the top corner, or a door that needs a shoulder bump every single time it closes means the core is done. Clovis’s dry heat pulls moisture out of wood slabs faster than most homeowners expect, and once a hollow core starts to separate, no adjustment screw revives it.
Interior Door Installation in Clovis
Interior Door Installation in Clovis is a different scope than replacement: it means cutting a new opening, framing it out, setting a prehung unit, trimming, and painting. That work lands between $700 and $2,800 per opening on average, though a pocket door or a double door into a primary suite can push higher. Permitting enters the picture when you’re changing openings, because Clovis building inspections look at header sizing and egress, not just the finished door.
New Openings and Header Work
Carving a new interior door into a load-bearing wall means dropping a header, and that’s where unlicensed quotes go sideways. We scope it honestly: the studs, the header, the drywall repair, the trim, the paint. If the opening was never there, the city may want a plan review. We calendar that inspection rather than hoping it doesn’t get noticed.
Pocket Doors and Tight Halls
A pocket door can reclaim a swing arc that’s eating a Clovis hallway, but the wall needs to be opened on one side. We rough in the pocket frame, reset drywall, and leave the wall finished to paint. Prices for a full pocket conversion usually start around $1,200 and rise with hardware and wall condition.
Trusted Brands We Service in Clovis
We service doors from Therma-Tru, ViewLux, PGT, and the rest of our eight product lines, and we keep common weatherstripping, thresholds, and hinge stock for Clovis jobs on the truck. That means a warped slab that needs a frame-consistent replacement isn’t waiting on a freight order from across the country. We spec Door Replacement materials based on the actual opening and exposure, not on a catalog page. If you’re deep in the blocks between Minnewawa and Sunnyside, the hardware and slab you need are probably already handled from stock.
Common Door Replacement Problems We See in Clovis Homes
- Summer slab swell and dry-air shrinkage. Clovis’s 100-degree afternoons push moisture out of wood doors, then cool nights pull it back. Slabs warp, bind at the strike plate, and homeowners shave the edge instead of fixing the movement. A replacement without truing the frame leaves the same drag next July.
- Builder-grade front doors rotted at the threshold. The sprinkler overspray and the hard Clovis sun work on the bottom rail together. The fiberglass slabs last; the pine and fir stock that builders set decades ago do not. We re-flash and re-seal rather than just screwing a sweep over the damage.
- Sidelite glass that turns the entry into a furnace. A west-facing door with a clear-glass sidelite bakes the entry floor every afternoon. We spec low-E insulated glass in the door or the sidelite to cut the cooling load, because thermal performance, not wind code, is what matters in the San Joaquin Valley.
- Stucco walls that complicate resized openings. Most Clovis subdivisions are stucco-faced, and cutting a wider rough opening means patching that hard finish to match the existing texture. If the bid assumes drywall-only repair, the price changes once the wall is open. We scope the stucco patch from the start.
Pricing for Door Replacement in Clovis, CA
A plain interior slab swap in Clovis runs $380 – $700. Add a prehung unit with trim and disposal and you’re at $900 – $2,400. Exterior replacement starts around $1,900 for a basic steel or fiberglass unit and lands between $3,500 and $7,500 when you add low-E glass, custom sizing, or a sidelite. What moves the price: frame condition, opening size, stucco repair, hardware grade, and any permit triggered by resizing an opening. We hand every Clovis customer a written price before work begins, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise means that if anything’s off a year later, we fix it, parts and labor, in writing. Call (682) 281-2168 to schedule your free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Clovis
Our crews cover the wider Central Valley, including Door Replacement in Clovis neighbors like Fresno, Sanger, Fowler, and Madera. The same written pricing, the same live arrival tracking, and the same 365-day guarantee apply in every one of those cities.
Serving Clovis, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Clovis 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 About Door Replacement in Clovis
No, a like-for-like interior door swap in Clovis does not require a permit. The moment you resize the rough opening, add a new exterior door, or alter framing, the project shifts into permit territory, and the city will want plan review and a final inspection. Call (682) 281-2168 and we’ll tell you where your specific project falls before anything is ordered.
Clovis’s hot, dry summers pull moisture out of wood slabs and frames, and the door swells just enough at the hinge stile to drag on the jamb. A new door fixes it only if the frame is trued at the same time. We reset hinges and square the frame rather than planing the slab down, because shaving buys one season, not ten.
Specify a low-E insulated glass unit with a solar heat gain coefficient down around 0.35 or lower if the door faces west or south. Clovis is not in a hurricane zone, so impact-rating isn’t the priority here, but a clear, non-low-E sidelite turns an entry into a passive heater from March through October. It’s a thermal decision, not a wind-load decision.
Rotted subfloor or framing found after the old door is pulled, stucco patch work on a resized opening that wasn’t scoped in the bid, and a permit trigger from changing the rough opening size. That’s why we walk the opening, check the frame with a level, and scope the stucco and the permit status before we write the number. The price you approve is the price you pay unless you choose to change scope.
An interior slab swap runs half a day. A full exterior prehung with trim and threshold work typically runs one day, two if stucco patching or a new sidelite frame is involved. If a permit is triggered, add whatever the city’s review and inspection calendar requires, and we build that into the schedule up front. Call (682) 281-2168 to get your date on the books.
Written by Sean Mackey, Owner at Juniper Windows & Doors, serving Clovis with door and window installations that hold their numbers from the first quote to the final invoice.