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AfterFast, Reliable Door Installation Across Delray Beach
Door installation in Delray Beach almost always comes down to two questions: will the new door survive the salt air, and will it pass Palm Beach County’s wind-borne debris inspection? Our Door Installation team works on both problems every day. With the Atlantic on one side and the Intracoastal blocks inland, nearly every property in the 33483 ZIP sits in a corrosion zone that eats hardware twice as fast as inland towns. A door that lasts 20 years in Lake Worth can look like a rusted heap here in eight. We’ve been solving that since 2011, and we answer our own phone at (561) 816-5648 whenever you call.
We know Delray Beach’s housing stock street by street. The 1950s and 1960s CBS ranches west of Federal Highway near Carver High School have masonry openings that need different flashing and anchoring than the mid-rise condos along East Atlantic Avenue. That local knowledge keeps your install on budget and on code. Call (561) 816-5648 for a free estimate. Ed Winslow owns this company, and his name goes on every job we finish.
Why Winslow Windows & Doors Is Delray Beach’s Preferred Door Installation Company
We’re the local alternative to the big-box installers who hand you a ticket number and a subcontractor you’ve never met. Ed Winslow founded this company in 2011, and we’ve been a Delray Beach fixture since. Every technician who pulls up to your home is background-checked, uniformed, and works for us directly. No day laborers. No mystery crews. The person who measures your door is the person who installs it.
Delray Beach homeowners tell us the same thing again and again: another company gave them a vague estimate, a no-show crew, or a warranty that evaporated after the check cleared. Ed built the 36500-Day Done Right Promise to kill that pattern. If it’s not done right, we make it right. That’s a 100-year standard, and it’s not a marketing slogan. It’s Ed’s name on the line, every single job.
Our published address and Florida license number are on our website and on every estimate. You’ll see the same name on the estimate, the invoice, and the warranty. That transparency matters when you’re spending thousands on a door that has to hold up against a Cat 4 and a decade of salt spray. Call (561) 816-5648 and a live person answers. At 2 p.m. or 2 a.m., you get Ed’s team, not a voicemail loop.
Our Door Installation Services in Delray Beach
Entry Doors
A new front entry door on a Delray Beach CBS home usually means replacing a 1960s aluminum unit that’s corroded at the hinges and sagging at the jamb. We measure the existing masonry opening, assess the sill condition, and recommend Delray Beach Custom & Geometric Windows or a door that meets Palm Beach County’s impact requirements without fighting the existing block work. Most entry door installs near Swinton Avenue or along NE 5th Avenue are done in one day once the unit arrives from our fabricator.
Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors
Every new or replacement door in Delray Beach’s wind-borne debris region must be impact-rated or paired with approved opening protection. We install PGT impact-rated doors with stainless steel hinges and sealed jambs, which is the only spec we recommend this close to the Intracoastal. The cheap inland-spec door will pass a visual inspection and fail where it actually matters: at the threshold, in a driving rain, ten years from now. We won’t sell you that door.
French & Double Doors
French doors need special attention in homes along West Atlantic Avenue and near Hidden Lake Park because double-door assemblies have twice the weatherstripping, twice the hinge points, and twice the places salt air can find a weakness. We specify marine-grade hardware and compression weatherstripping as standard on every double-door install we do in Delray Beach. The upcharge is modest. The alternative is a door that whistles in every coastal breeze and corrodes at the astragal within five years.
Replacement Doors
Replacing a sliding glass door in a condo facing the ocean is our most common Delray Beach call. The rollers seize from salt crystallization, the track corrodes, and the panel binds or falls off. We replace the entire unit with an impact-rated assembly that carries a Florida Product Approval for your specific wind zone. For a typical mid-rise unit near East Atlantic Avenue, that runs $2,500 to $5,000 installed depending on panel width and floor height. We leave the old frame checked, the new flashing sealed, and the permit closed.
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Trusted Brands We Service in Delray Beach
We’re an authorized installer for Therma-Tru, PGT, and ViewLux, and we provide Delray Beach Cgi service on Mr-Glass units throughout the area. That authorization matters because the brand is only as good as the install. A PGT door installed with the wrong anchors or undersized fasteners will underperform a mid-tier door installed correctly. Our crews are factory-trained on the product lines we sell, and we keep local parts on hand for common corrosion-driven failures: replacement rollers, hinge pins, thresholds, and weatherstripping that Delray Beach’s salt air destroys predictably. When your sliding door binds at the track a year after another company installed it, we can usually get the parts and have it gliding again within days, not weeks.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Delray Beach Homes
- Salt-corroded bottom rollers and tracks on sliders. In homes facing the ocean or the Intracoastal, salt crystallization seizes the rollers within 5-8 years. The door binds, then falls off track. A new impact-rated door with stainless steel hardware solves the root problem; lubricating a corroded roller just delays the inevitable.
- Original 1950s-1970s aluminum door frames that are now code violations. The mid-century CBS ranches west of Federal Highway near Carver High School were built with single-pane aluminum doors that fail large-missile impact tests. When replacement is triggered, Palm Beach County requires impact-rated compliance and a permit. Many of these masonry openings also need sill and lintel assessment before a new unit can anchor properly.
- Weatherstripping that loses flexibility in salt-laden air. Atlantic onshore breeze carries salt that stiffens rubber and vinyl seals. Water intrusion in heavy summer downpours follows. We replace worn seals with marine-grade compression weatherstripping on every coastal install.
- Sliding glass doors in beachfront condos with failed sealant and corroded stainless. Even “stainless” fasteners near the water can pit after a decade of salt exposure. We specify 316-grade stainless or sealed hardware, and we double-check every penetration on high-rise ocean-facing installs.
Pricing for Door Installation in Delray Beach, FL
A standard entry door replacement in Delray Beach runs $1,200 to $2,800 installed, depending on whether the door is impact-rated and what condition the existing jamb is in. Impact-rated front doors run higher: $2,500 to $6,000 for a factory-finished unit with stainless hardware and a properly sealed masonry opening. Sliding glass door replacements on ocean-facing condos are typically $2,500 to $5,000. French door assemblies, because of the double weatherstripping and alignment work, start around $3,000 and climb with width and finish.
Salt-air coastal spec hardware adds roughly 10-15% to any of these numbers, and we’ll show you exactly what that buys on your written estimate. It’s the cheapest insurance you’ll ever buy against a door that corrodes from the bottom up within a decade. Every estimate we give is itemized and free. Call (561) 816-5648 and we’ll come measure.
What Door Installation Costs in Delray Beach
Here’s a straight line-item look at what we quote across Delray Beach. These are real ranges for the 33483 area, drive by nothing but what we’ve actually installed.
- Impact-rated entry door (single): $2,500-$6,000 installed
- Non-impact entry door replacement: $1,200-$2,800 installed
- Sliding glass door replacement (impact, ocean-facing condo): $2,500-$5,000 installed
- French or double-door assembly: $3,000-$7,500 installed
- Whole-home door package (3+ doors): $8,000-$25,000+ installed
What moves the price in Delray Beach: how many openings you’re replacing, whether you’re on a high floor (crane or hoist time for mid-rise work), what your existing jamb condition is, and what design pressure your specific zone demands. Palm Beach County’s wind-borne debris region applies to nearly every property in the 33483 ZIP, so budget for impact-rated glazing as the baseline, not an upgrade. We’ll give you a written, itemized quote before any work starts. No change orders. No surprise line items. That’s the 36500-Day promise, in writing, on every Delray Beach job. Call (561) 816-5648 to schedule a free in-home measure.
How We Specify for Delray Beach’s Salt Air
Delray Beach’s 33483 ZIP is a salt-air pressure cooker. The Atlantic sits on one side, the Intracoastal Waterway blocks inland, and the onshore breeze carries salt crystals onto every exposed surface on your door: hinges, threshold, handle set, weatherstripping, and the bottom track if you have a slider. We see aluminum frames pitted and corroded in a decade, door sweeps brittle and cracking, stainless hardware showing surface rust within five years when it’s the wrong grade.
So we don’t spec the inland door. We specify 316 stainless steel or hot-dip galvanized hardware, marine-grade compression weatherstripping, and sealed jambs that keep salt-laden moisture out of the rough opening. The coastal-spec door costs about 10-15% more than the same door built for an inland home. Here’s what that extra buys you: a door that opens and closes smoothly 15 years from now, hardware that isn’t pitted, and weatherstripping that still seals in a driving rain. The cheap inland-spec door will look fine on day one and need hardware replacement within a decade. By year ten, the cheap door has already cost more. That’s the information-gain truth about Delray Beach door installation, and it’s one we’ve learned installing doors here since 2011.
In a 1960s CBS ranch west of Federal Highway near Carver High School, our crew replaced a corroded aluminum entry door that had seized shut after years of salt spray. The original door had no Miami-Dade NOA and failed wind mitigation inspection. We installed a PGT impact-rated door with stainless steel hinges and a sealed jamb, bringing the home into compliance and eliminating the salt-driven corrosion that made the old door a liability. That’s the job, in miniature, that we do across Delray Beach every week.
Florida Pays You Back
Delray Beach homeowners can stack a few state and federal incentives to offset the cost of impact-rated door installation. The My Safe Florida Home program matches up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades; when we complete a door replacement, you may qualify for a grant application. Florida also exempts Energy-Efficient Windows in Delray Beach and impact-resistant doors from sales tax. The federal 25C energy credit returns 30% of the product cost, up to $600 per year on qualifying units. And after a wind-mitigation inspection ($75-$150), most Delray Beach homeowners see their windstorm premium drop, sometimes by around 25% on the windstorm portion. Programs and carriers set the final numbers, not us. We’ll give you the paperwork trail and the NOA or Florida Product Approval numbers for every unit we install, so your grant or credit application goes through clean.
One comparison worth making up front: impact windows and doors are permanent protection. You don’t hang them before a storm, you don’t store them, and they don’t require you to be home when the watch is posted. That’s the difference between a real impact-rated door from us and a shutter system you have to manage. We don’t install shutters. We install Impact Garage Doors in Delray Beach and entry doors that are always on duty.
We Also Serve Cities Near Delray Beach
Our crews handle door installation across the coastal stretch from Boynton Beach south to Boca Raton, including Deerfield Beach and Greenacres. The same salt-air corrosion and wind-borne debris rules apply there, and we bring the same coastal-spec standard to every job. Door Installation in Delray Beach is our home market, but the whole coastal corridor is our service area.
Serving Delray Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Delray Beach 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 - Door Installation in Delray Beach
Yes, with very few exceptions. Delray Beach sits in Palm Beach County’s wind-borne debris region under the adopted Florida Building Code, and any new or replacement door must be impact-rated or paired with approved opening protection. This applies even to interior-unit condo replacements. We’ll confirm your specific wind zone and design pressure requirement on the free measure. Call (561) 816-5648 to schedule.
Almost never. The original 1970s aluminum frame in a masonry CBS opening was not engineered for the weight or anchoring of a modern impact-rated door, and it’s usually corroded by salt air anyway. We replace the frame, assess the sill and lintel condition, and anchor the new unit properly into the block. Reusing a 50-year-old frame would compromise the very impact compliance you’re paying for. This is one of the most common mistakes we correct in Delray Beach.
Salt-laden air causes salt crystallization on the roller bearings and track, and within 5-8 years the rollers seize, the panel binds, and the door falls off track. Inland, that same failure takes 15 or 20 years. The fix is an impact-rated replacement door with marine-grade stainless rollers and a properly sealed track. Call (561) 816-5648 for a free measure and a written quote.
A Miami-Dade NOA is a notice of acceptance certifying that a specific product configuration passed Miami-Dade County’s large-missile impact and cyclic wind-pressure testing. A Florida Product Approval is the statewide equivalent, valid across all Florida jurisdictions including Palm Beach County. For Delray Beach doors, having at least one of these certifications is required for wind-borne debris compliance. Every impact-rated door we install carries the appropriate NOA or Florida Product Approval for your specific configuration.
Yes. Impact-rated doors use laminated glass and insulated cores that reduce solar heat gain and air leakage, which directly cuts cooling load in Delray Beach’s hot, humid summers. A properly sealed impact door also stops humid outdoor air from leaking in, so your AC isn’t working to dehumidify Atlantic moisture all day. The energy savings alone won’t pay for the door, but combined with the federal 25C credit and windstorm-premium reduction, the total return is real. Call (561) 816-5648 for an estimate that includes the savings side.
Get Your Free Door Installation Estimate in Delray Beach
Ed Winslow’s name is on the door, and on every job we do in Delray Beach. Call (561) 816-5648 and a live person answers. We’ll schedule your free in-home measure, walk you through impact-rated options from PGT, Therma-Tru, and ViewLux, and hand you a written, itemized quote before you commit to anything. No pressure, no vague numbers, no voicemail loops. Just a neighbor you can call at 2 a.m., and someone will actually answer. The one down the road.
Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving Delray Beach and coastal Palm Beach County since 2011.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose Winslow Windows & Doors
Impact systems engineered to design pressures up to +/-100, matched to your wind zone - your openings hold when the storm arrives.
Low-E insulated impact glass from our manufacturer lines commonly cuts monthly cooling bills 20-30%.
Laminated impact glass shuts out up to 40% of outside noise - traffic, neighbors, weather.
Monitoring services run $30-90 a month. Laminated impact glass resists forced entry around the clock, with no subscription.
Florida homeowners average around 25% savings on the windstorm portion of their policy after protecting every opening - some homes qualify for more.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.