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Fast, Reliable Door Replacement Across Coral Gables
Replacing a door in Coral Gables means dealing with more than just hinges and hardware. It means navigating Miami-Dade’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone product approvals, Coral Gables’s own building permit requirements, and the reality of installing a new unit into a home that might be a 1920s Mediterranean-revival original or a 1990s remodel with undocumented framing. Our crews work throughout Coral Gables weekly, from the Granada entrance off Le Jeune Road to the quieter streets of the Riviera and Country Club sections. We know what the City’s Building Division expects at inspection, and we’ll get your opening scoped and priced in writing before anything gets ordered. Call (682) 281-2168 for a free in-home measure and a quote that won’t change once work starts.
Why Juniper Windows & Doors Is Coral Gables’s Preferred Door Replacement Company
We’re the Door Replacement team inside Juniper Windows & Doors, part of the Relay Home Co. family founded in 2001. Sean Mackey leads our crews, and he’s built the business around a simple rule: a written price before a single screw turns. That matters in Coral Gables, where a front entry replacement can involve structural blocking, product approval paperwork, and a City inspection before the permit closes. Our Coral Gables customers consistently tell us the same thing: they appreciated knowing the number before the work began.
Every technician who arrives at your Coral Gables home is background-checked and uniformed, so you know exactly who’s walking through your door. We answer our phone live around the clock, not with a voicemail queue. And our 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every installation, parts and labor, in writing, for a full year. If something isn’t right, we come back and make it right. No charge, no argument.
We also pride ourselves on the Relay Visibility Guarantee: a live arrival time you can track, before-and-after photos of every job, and a digital invoice you can pay from a link. You’ll never chase us for a paper receipt or wonder when the crew will show up.
Interior Door Installation in Coral Gables
Interior Door Installation in Coral Gables usually means replacing hollow-core slabs that have warped in the humidity, re-shimming jambs that no longer latch, or upgrading to solid-core doors for better sound control between bedrooms and living spaces. Many Coral Gables homes we work in were built before air conditioning, so their interior doorways were sized for ventilation, not for modern HVAC. That often means we’re planing and re-squaring rough openings before a new door goes in.
For a standard interior door replacement, Coral Gables homeowners can expect to pay $350 to $700 per opening for a basic slab swap, depending on whether we’re reusing the existing jamb or installing a pre-hung unit. Solid-core upgrades typically run $500 to $900 per door, including hardware and trim. Custom sizes or out-of-plumb openings add to the labor, which is something we’ll explain and price up front.
Slab Replacement vs. Pre-Hung
If your existing frame is square and solid, we can hang a new slab in about two hours per door. If the jamb has shifted, rotted, or been poorly shimmed, a pre-hung unit makes more sense and saves you from a door that binds after the first humid summer.
Hardware and Match-Finish Work
Coral Gables homes often have original brass or oil-rubbed bronze hardware from the 1920s and 1930s. We’ll match finish and backset on every replacement so the new door doesn’t look like a patch job. Bring us a photo of your existing hardware and we’ll source the match.
Door Installers in Coral Gables
Door Installers in Coral Gables face a specific challenge: many homes here have masonry walls you can’t easily reframe. A 1920s coral-rock or hollow clay-tile wall doesn’t give you dimensional lumber to anchor into the way a wood-frame house would. Our crews know how to install blocking and anchors that hold an impact door square through hurricane-cycle humidity and seasonal movement.
Exterior door installation in Coral Gables generally runs $1,200 to $4,500 per opening, depending on whether it’s a rear utility door or an impact-rated front entry. The lower end covers a basic exterior slab into an existing, clean frame. The higher end includes a Miami-Dade NOA-rated unit, new threshold, weatherstripping, trim, and the permitting and inspection process the City requires.
Impact-Rated Entry Replacement
Every exterior door in Coral Gables sits inside the HVHZ. We schedule the product approval paperwork, pull the permit, and coordinate the City inspection so the job closes cleanly.
Interior Door Installer Work
This is where the less glamorous stuff shows up: a bedroom door that scrapes the floor in July, a bathroom door that won’t latch because the house settled. We handle these as part of multi-door packages, which is where Coral Gables homeowners get the best value.
Trusted Brands We Service in Coral Gables
We work with the product lines that hold up in South Florida. That includes Therma-Tru entry doors with laminated impact glass, PGT and CGI impact-rated units for exposed elevations, and ViewLux for contemporary glass entry systems. Because we’re a Coral Gables-focused crew, we keep common parts and hardware in local stock rather than ordering everything from a warehouse upstate. That means less downtime if a threshold or weatherstrip needs to be swapped mid-job. We’ll match the right brand to your opening’s wind load and design pressure requirement, and we’ll show you the product approval paperwork before you commit.
Common Door Replacement Problems We See in Coral Gables Homes
- Failed product approvals. A homeowner orders an impact door online thinking it meets code, but the NOA’s design pressure doesn’t match the opening’s wind load. The permit fails review, and the door sits in a garage while the paperwork gets sorted. We check the rating before you spend a dollar.
- Rot and binding in humid months. Coral Gables’s summer humidity swells wood frames and reveals jambs that were never properly shimmed. A door that latched in January won’t close in August. We re-square rough openings and re-shim jambs so they stay true through the wet season.
- Unsupported frames in masonry walls. Mechanical fasteners alone don’t hold an impact door in coral-rock or hollow clay-tile construction. Without proper blocking, the frame racks and the door binds within a season. We build the blocking in before the unit goes in.
- Missing paperwork at inspection. The City wants the Florida Product Approval or NOA plus the installation instructions on site at inspection. A missing document means a re-inspection fee and a delayed final. We stage that paperwork for every Coral Gables job.
What Door Replacement Costs in Coral Gables
Here’s the honest picture for Coral Gables, FL. A basic interior slab replacement starts around $350 per opening. A pre-hung solid-core interior door runs $500 to $900. Exterior impact-rated doors land between $1,200 and $4,500 per opening, with large or custom front entries climbing to $5,000 and up. Whole-home packages, where we’re replacing six, eight, or twelve doors at once, typically land between $4,000 and $15,000 depending on mix and hardware.
What moves the price in Coral Gables? The wind zone and design pressure rating required for each specific opening. A north-facing rear door might need a +/-50 PSF rating, while a corner front entry could require something higher. Floor height matters too: a second-story entry on an exposed elevation carries a higher wind load than a ground-floor door tucked under a porch. The frame material matters. The rough opening condition matters, especially in older masonry construction where we’re building blocking from scratch. We’ll walk you through all of it before you sign anything. Call (682) 281-2168 for a free in-home measure and a written quote.
Pricing for Door Replacement in Coral Gables, FL
You shouldn’t have to call three companies just to get a ballpark. Here’s what Coral Gables homeowners can expect. Interior door replacement: $350 to $900 per opening. Exterior impact-rated entry: $1,200 to $4,500. Multi-door packages: $4,000 to $15,000. Custom or oversized front entries: $5,000 and up. We’ll measure every opening, check the design pressure requirements for your specific elevation and floor height, and hand you a written line-item quote. That number doesn’t change unless you ask us to change the scope. Free estimate, no pressure. Call (682) 281-2168.
Florida Pays You Back
Florida residents get some real help on impact-rated door replacements. The My Safe Florida Home program offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, including impact doors. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax, which trims another chunk off the invoice. At the federal level, the 25C energy credit covers 30% of product cost on qualifying units, up to $600 per year. And after a wind-mitigation inspection (which runs $75 to $150), many Coral Gables homeowners see their windstorm premium credit average around 25% on the windstorm portion. We won’t promise a specific dollar amount because carriers and programs set the final numbers, but we’ll help you document everything and point you to the right forms.
One comparison worth making: impact doors versus hurricane shutters. Shutters work, but you have to store them, haul them out before a storm, and install them while the wind picks up. An impact-rated door protects your home permanently and doesn’t require a single action from you when a hurricane forms. It’s part of the opening, not something you bolt onto it. We don’t sell shutters, but we’ll happily show you the difference in a written quote.
We Also Serve Cities Near Coral Gables
Our crews work throughout Coral Gables and the surrounding South Florida corridor. If you’re in Miami, Key Biscayne, Miami Beach, or Hialeah, we can handle the same door replacement work with the same written pricing and 365-Day Done Right Promise. Scheduling for those areas is coordinated through our Miami (South FL) office, with local crews dispatched for your project.
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 About Door Replacement in Coral Gables
Yes. Coral Gables sits inside Miami-Dade’s HVHZ, and the City’s Building Division requires a permit for any exterior door replacement. The permit won’t close without the product approval paperwork (Florida Product Approval or Miami-Dade NOA) and a passed final inspection on file. We pull the permit and stage the paperwork as part of the job. Call (682) 281-2168 for a free estimate and we’ll walk you through the timeline.
It often does, if the new door carries a Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval and the installation is documented. A wind-mitigation inspection (around $75 to $150) can verify the rated entry door, and many Coral Gables homeowners see their windstorm premium credit average around 25% on the windstorm portion. We’ll hand you the product approval paperwork and photos so you’re ready for that inspection. For an exact quote on your install, call (682) 281-2168.
A standard interior door swap can be done same-week. An impact-rated custom entry door runs 4 to 6 weeks from order to install, plus time for permit review and the City’s final inspection. We’ll give you a realistic calendar when we measure, and we keep you updated with photo progress along the way. Call (682) 281-2168 to schedule a free measure.
It can. An older exterior door with failing weatherstripping or a warped frame leaks conditioned air constantly, and Coral Gables’s summer heat and humidity push your AC hard from June through October. A properly seated, weatherstripped impact door with a tight threshold reduces that air leakage, which shows up in your cooling load. The federal 25C credit also applies to qualifying units. For a specific range on your project, call (682) 281-2168.
Yes. We’ve worked on more than a few of these homes off Le Jeune Road and throughout the Granada entrance area. The trick is the rough opening: a 1920s masonry wall is rarely square, and the original frame was often shimmed around an opening that’s out of plumb by half an inch or more. We plane and re-square before the new unit goes in, then match the trim profile and hardware finish so the replacement looks like it belongs. On one 1940s Mediterranean-revival home, we replaced a rotted front entry that failed the impact test with a Therma-Tru door carrying laminated glass and a large-missile rating, then swapped three interior slabs and re-shimmed every jamb. The homeowner’s wind mitigation report now credits the home for a rated entry door on every exterior opening. For a quote on your Coral Gables door, call (682) 281-2168.
Written by Sean Mackey, Owner at Juniper Windows & Doors, serving Coral Gables since 2001.










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