Door Replacement in Los Angeles - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Door Replacement Across Los Angeles

A standard interior door replacement in Los Angeles typically runs $450 – $900 per door including labor, while exterior door replacement ranges from $1,800 – $5,200 depending on material, glazing, and whether the opening needs reframing. That’s the honest range we quote when homeowners call us from Silver Lake, Sherman Oaks, or anywhere across the Los Angeles basin. Our crews schedule within 3 – 5 business days for most Los Angeles jobs, and every project starts with a written price before any work begins. Call (682) 281-2168 and you’ll reach a live person who can walk you through what your specific door project will cost.

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We know Los Angeles housing. From 1920s Spanish bungalows in Mid-Wilshire to mid-century ranch homes in the Valley, the door openings here were built before modern manufacturing tolerances existed. That’s why we measure the rough opening on every single job, not just the slab. It’s the difference between a door that closes flush and one that sticks every August when the humidity finally shows up.

Why Juniper Windows & Doors Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Door Replacement Company

Sean Mackey leads our Los Angeles team with a simple rule: the price we quote in writing is the price you pay. No change orders materializing at the door, no “we found something behind the wall” surprise invoices. Homeowners across Los Angeles have told us the same thing: they’re tired of contractors who quote low and adjust high. Our 365-Day Done Right Promise puts that in writing. If the door isn’t right, we make it right, parts and labor, for a full year after installation.

Every technician who shows up at a Los Angeles home is background-checked, uniformed, and scheduled through our booking system. You get a live arrival time you can track, photo updates while the work happens, and a digital invoice you can pay from your phone. The Relay Visibility Guarantee means you’re not sitting in a four-hour window wondering if anyone is coming. You know exactly when we’ll be there and exactly what the job will cost before we arrive. That’s how a door replacement should work in a city where time is the one thing nobody has enough of.

Our Los Angeles office coordinates dispatch for jobs from South Gate to Bell to Huntington Park, and every call to our line is answered by a person, 24/7. No voicemail maze. You call, someone picks up, and you get answers.

Interior Door Replacement in Los Angeles

Interior Door Replacement in Los Angeles usually means swapping out old hollow-core slabs or damaged doors inside the home. In older Los Angeles houses, interior door openings are rarely square. We measure the rough opening, check the jamb for level, and often add blocking behind the hinges so the new door doesn’t sag against the strike plate. A single interior door replacement in Los Angeles runs $450 – $900 installed, and that includes hauling away the old slab. Most jobs take 2 – 4 hours per door.

Hollow-Core Slab Swaps

The most common interior job we do in Los Angeles is replacing beat-up hollow-core doors. Hallway doors, bedroom doors, closet doors. The old ones get scratched, kicked, or just start looking tired. We install new pre-hung slabs, shim the jamb, and adjust the hinges until the door swings clean and latches without fighting you. This is the job that makes a big visual difference per dollar spent.

Uneven Openings and Jamb Correction

If your Los Angeles home was built before 1970, the rough opening is probably not square. We see 1/4-inch to 3/4-inch variance all the time in places like Highland Park and West Adams. We correct it with shims and blocking, not by forcing the door to fit. A door that’s forced will rub, sag, and eventually refuse to latch. We’d rather spend an extra hour on the opening than leave you with a door that only closes half the year.

Interior Door Installation in Los Angeles

Interior Door Installation in Los Angeles covers new door openings, replacement of existing doors with different sizes, and installation in remodels or room additions. If you’re adding a bedroom in a finished attic or converting a den, we frame the opening, set the jamb, hang the door, and trim it out. Interior door installation in Los Angeles starts around $700 per door for a standard pre-hung unit and goes up from there based on hardware, custom sizing, and whether we’re cutting into an existing wall. A brand-new opening adds framing and drywall work, which pushes the cost to $1,200 – $1,800 per door in most Los Angeles homes.

Pre-Hung Door Units

For new openings or full replacement with a new jamb, we install pre-hung units. The door arrives already set in its frame, which means the hinges are factory-aligned and the reveal around the slab is consistent. We plumb the jamb, shim it tight, and secure the frame before hanging the casing. This is the cleanest way to get a door that swings perfectly from day one.

Custom Sizing for Older Los Angeles Homes

Many older homes in Los Angeles have non-standard rough openings. Doors that are 78 inches tall instead of the modern 80, or widths that run 29 inches instead of 30. Stock doors don’t fit these openings without significant modification. We order the right size, or trim a slab when it’s appropriate, then fit it to the existing jamb. In a 1930s bungalow near Echo Park, that’s the difference between a door that looks original and one that reads as a hack job.

Trusted Brands We Service in Los Angeles

We have eight product lines available for Los Angeles jobs, and for doors specifically, Therma-Tru and ViewLux are the ones we recommend most. Therma-Tru fiberglass doors hold up beautifully in the dry Los Angeles sun, and they don’t warp the way wood does. ViewLux gives us access to clean, modern door styles with insulated glass units that cut heat gain on west-facing entries. For homeowners who want impact-rated protection on hillside properties, PGT and CGI both make exterior doors engineered to resist wind-borne debris. When we quote a door in Los Angeles, the brand is never a compromise. We match the product to the house, the exposure, and the budget.

Common Door Replacement Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes

• Warping on original wood doors. Los Angeles’s dry summers and occasional damp winters make old wood doors swell, stick, and eventually split. A 1920s front door that’s been painted ten times is usually past saving once the stiles have cracked.
• West-facing entries that bake all afternoon. Homes from Mid-City to Culver City with front doors facing west take brutal afternoon sun. A door without low-E insulated glass turns the entry into an oven, and the interior face of the slab can actually feel hot to the touch by 4 p.m.
• Out-of-square rough openings in pre-1970 housing. Los Angeles has one of the oldest housing stocks in California. When we pull a door out of a 1948 home near Atwater Village, the opening is almost never square. Installing a new door without correcting the opening means it will never hang right.
• Improper previous installations with no blocking. Door installs done by handymen or rushed flips often skip hinge blocking. The door holds for six months, then starts to sag and rub. We add blocking behind the hinges on nearly every Los Angeles job we touch.

Pricing for Door Replacement in Los Angeles, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles

Our crews handle door replacement jobs across the Los Angeles metro. In addition to Los Angeles proper, we regularly serve Huntington Park, South Gate, Bell, and Maywood. If you’re in one of those cities and need a door replacement quote, the process is the same: written price first, live arrival time, and work backed by the Door Replacement team’s 365-Day Done Right Promise. You can also see everything we do across the metro on our Door Replacement in Los Angeles page.

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