Door Replacement in San Francisco - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Door Replacement Across San Francisco

Door replacement in San Francisco typically runs $1,400 to $4,800 for a standard exterior entry door with installation, and $350 to $1,100 for interior door replacement. The price lands higher here than in the East Bay or South Bay because most pre-1979 homes need custom jambs, not stock slabs. Juniper Windows & Doors sends background-checked, uniformed techs into every San Francisco neighborhood, from the Outer Sunset to Bernal Heights, with a written price locked before the first screw turns. Call (682) 281-2168 for a free estimate and a real person answers, day or night.

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Why Juniper Windows & Doors Is San Francisco’s Preferred Door Replacement Company

We know San Francisco’s housing stock the way only a local crew can. The Victorians in Noe Valley, the Edwardians in the Richmond, the Marina-style flats in Cow Hollow: each era has its own jamb dimensions, settling patterns, and retrofit history. Our Door Replacement team has pulled permits through the Department of Building Inspection, sat through Architectural Review board hearings, and shimmed more out-of-plumb rough openings than we can count.

Every San Francisco job falls under two commitments we put in writing. First, a written price before any work starts, no exceptions. Second, the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work isn’t right, we make it right, parts and labor, for a full year after installation. Sean Mackey leads the team and holds every job to that standard.

The Relay Visibility Guarantee changes how a door replacement feels. You book in a tap, get a live arrival time you can track, receive before-and-after photos, and pay from a digital invoice link. No four-hour windows. No no-shows. No phone tag.

Door Frame Repair in San Francisco

Door frame repair in San Francisco usually means rebuilding a jamb that has shifted, rotted, or been chewed apart by decades of forced entries and bad prior work. In a city where seismic retrofits have moved headers and settling fill has twisted studs, we rarely find a square opening in homes built before 1979. Door frame repair in San Francisco runs $300 to $900 for typical jamb repair or shimming, and $900 to $2,200 when we need to pull the casing, sister a stud, and rehang the jamb from scratch.

When a San Francisco homeowner calls us about a door that binds, drags, or won’t latch, the frame is almost always the culprit. The slab is fine. The jamb is the problem.

What We Check Before Replacing a Frame

Our techs check plumb, level, and square on every axis. We also check the header for movement from past seismic work. If the header has shifted, the new jamb needs to be built to the opening that exists now, not the one from 1924.

We pull the casing carefully to inspect stud condition. In Outer Sunset homes with past water intrusion, we often find rot extending past the visible damage. Better to find it now than after the new door is in.

Load-Bearing Jambs in Older Flats

Many Victorian and Edwardian entry doors in San Francisco have jambs that carry real structural load. Removing one without proper shoring is dangerous and can crack plaster or shift the opening. We shore, support, and rebuild in sequence, and we call out any structural surprises before they become expensive ones.

Interior Door Replacement in San Francisco

Interior door replacement in San Francisco runs $350 to $1,100 per door including labor and basic hardware, with the average three-bedroom flat running $1,200 to $2,800 for all interior doors at once. The catch is that San Francisco’s narrow-lot flats rarely have standard 30-inch or 32-inch rough openings that match modern pre-hung units. Many interior doors in the Richmond and Sunset are 28 inches wide, sometimes 26, and the frames are built into lathe and plaster walls that don’t forgive a forced fit.

Interior door replacement makes sense for San Francisco homeowners whose doors are hollow, damaged, or simply don’t close anymore. It’s also one of the fastest ways to change how a flat feels: solid-core doors cut hallway noise and make a rental-ready unit feel finished.

Pre-Hung vs. Slab Replacement

A pre-hung unit replaces the door and the frame together, which works when the rough opening is close to standard. A slab replacement hangs a new door in the existing frame, which saves money but only works when the jamb is square and sound. In older San Francisco buildings, we usually recommend a pre-hung unit so the frame and door match from day one.

Solid-Core Doors for Noise and Privacy

In-law units, roommates, home offices: San Francisco living means proximity. Solid-core interior doors run $500 to $900 installed and make a real difference in a hallway shared with a bedroom door that currently feels like cardboard. We stock solid-core slabs that fit narrow openings without custom milling.

Trusted Brands We Service in San Francisco

We install and service eight product lines, including PGT, CGI, CWS, and ES Windows. For San Francisco customers, that means we can match impact-rated entry doors to wind-mitigation paperwork, pull custom glass packages for light-starved interior spaces, and source parts locally without a two-week wait. PGT’s impact-rated doors are popular in the Sunset and Richmond, where coastal wind drives insurance requirements. ES Windows gives us the slim sightlines San Francisco homeowners want on interior and exterior doors without giving up structural strength. We stock common parts for these brands at our San Francisco Bay Area dispatch office, so repair turnarounds stay short.

Common Door Replacement Problems We See in San Francisco Homes

• Out-of-plumb rough openings in pre-1979 flats. Most Victorians and Edwardians have openings that have drifted over a century. We shim and square every jamb before hanging, because skipping this step is how you get a door that binds in winter and swings open in summer.
• Seismic retrofit shifts that move the header. Foundation bolting and shear wall work often leave door frames slightly out of square. If a new door was hung before the retrofit, it may now drag or fail to latch. We check the header relationship before ordering any slab.
• Street-visible entry doors in Conservation Districts. If your building sits in a Historic Resource or Conservation District, the Department of Building Inspection may trigger an Architectural Review before issuing a permit. We have walked San Francisco homeowners through this and can tell you early whether it applies to your address.
• Marine-layer moisture and wood rot. The Sunset, Richmond, and any home within a few blocks of Ocean Beach takes salt air and fog year-round. Exterior door jambs rot from the bottom up, and by the time you see it, the damage is usually worse than it looks. We replace with rot-resistant jambs and proper sill flashing.

Pricing for Door Replacement in San Francisco, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near San Francisco

Our crews serve Door Replacement in San Francisco plus nearby Daly City, Brisbane, Sausalito, and South San Francisco. If you live in one of these cities, the same pricing, the same written-quote rule, and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise apply. Call (682) 281-2168 and we will route the right crew to you.

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