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Door Replacement and Installation in the Twin Cities

Prehung swaps, slabs fitted to existing jambs, French pairs, closet doors, storm doors and the house-to-garage fire door. Bring the door or have us supply it; either way it is hung square and it latches.

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Entry and patio doors are most of our door work: a steel or fiberglass entry door that seals and locks the first time, and a sliding or hinged patio door that glides instead of being lifted. We supply the door or install the one you bought, and we hang interior, closet, storm and fire doors as well. Big-box stores sell doors but do not install them, and most remodelers will not come out for one door; we do, every week across the metro.

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Whole houseEvery window, one order, room by room.Several windowsTwo to nine openings, matched to the ones you keep.One windowA single window is a welcome job.Entry doorFront, back or side door, frame included.Patio doorSliding or French, measured for the opening you have.Egress windowA bedroom-size basement window with the well.

Doors jobs we do (221)

Entry doors (15)

Finished white entry door with decorative glass and a sidelite, seen from inside

Entry Door Replacement — New Door Supplied, Rot Fixed, Trimmed Out

The front door is drafty, the bottom of the frame is soft and the lock barely lines up. You pick the door; we measure, order it, and put it in on a dry, solid sill.

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New white picture window with flanking double-hungs and a white storm door on a green-sided home

Fiberglass Entry Door Replacement — Smooth or Woodgrain, Supplied

The wood door is checking and peeling, or the steel one is dented and rusting at the bottom. A fiberglass door holds up to sun and wet and can look like stained wood.

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New construction home interior with upgraded window and door trim in the Twin Cities

Steel Entry Door Replacement — Insulated Steel Door, Frame and Sill

The steel door is rusting along the bottom edge, dented, or peeling. A new insulated steel unit with a fresh frame and sill fixes the door and what it sits on.

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Installer setting a new prehung entry door in its opening

Double Front Door Replacement — Double Entry Doors Supplied and Set

Two doors that do not meet in the middle, a gap you can see daylight through, and a sill that is soft at the center. We replace the pair and set it so both doors close tight.

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JMB Builders installer fitting a door in a Twin Cities home

Front Door With Sidelights Replacement — Sidelites and Transom Units

An entry with sidelites and a transom is three or four pieces that have to act like one. Old unit out, sill rebuilt if it is soft, new unit set straight across the full width.

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Oak-trimmed casement pair over the kitchen sink with black hardware

Back Door Replacement — Rear, Side and Kitchen Doors to the Yard

The back door gets used more than the front, sits under a deck or at a stoop, and usually wears out first. We replace it with one that fits how you use it.

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Split Entry Front Door Replacement — Tight Landing, Steps and Storm

The split-entry door opens onto a landing barely bigger than the door, with stairs going up and down, and the storm door hits the railing.

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Walkout Basement Door Replacement — Patio or Entry Door on a Slab

The walkout door is at grade, water from the patio runs toward it, and the carpet by the sill is damp. We replace the door and rebuild what it sits on so it stays dry.

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Garage Service Door Replacement — Steel Man Door on the Garage

The garage side door is rusted through at the bottom, the jamb is soft, and it has not locked properly in years. A steel prehung unit, set right on a sill pan, and it is done.

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Fire-Rated House-to-Garage Door Installation

The door into the garage is the one that gets kicked, slammed and left open. Replace it with a rated, self-closing door that seals against exhaust and cold, installed by a licensed Minnesota contractor.

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Manufactured Home Exterior Door Replacement — 34x76 Doors and Storms

The mobile home door is drafty, the bottom is soft, and a regular door from the big-box aisle will not fit the opening.

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Install an Exterior Door in a Basement Concrete Block Wall

The basement needs a door to the yard: a shop, a rental unit or a walkout where the lot drops away. The wall is concrete, and that changes the job.

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Dutch Door Installation — Prehung Dutch Doors and Split Slabs

Kitchen to mudroom, nursery, pantry, or the back door to the yard. Top open, bottom shut, and both halves still meeting flat when you close them together.

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Entry Door Glass Insert Replacement — Swap or Add a Door Lite

The oval glass in the front door is fogged between the panes, or the brass caming looks like 1994, or the door has no window at all and the entry is dark. The door is fine; the glass is the job.

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Front Door Sidelight Glass Cracked — Replace the Glass, Keep the Door

A rock or a slammed storm door cracked the glass beside the front door, or it has fogged between the panes. The door is fine and should stay.

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One door (20)

Replace Just One Exterior Door

One door is drafty, soft at the bottom or will not latch, and every other door in the house is fine. Replace that one and leave the rest alone.

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Front Door Only, Frame Included

You want a new front door. Not a new entry system, not every door in the house. One door, its frame, done right.

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Back Door Only

The back door is the one that gets used, kicked, and left in the weather. It is soft at the bottom and the deadbolt fights you. Replace that one door.

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Patio Door Only

The slider drags, frosts over, and the floor in front of it is soft. The windows are fine. Replace the patio door and only the patio door.

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In-Stock Entry Door, Installed This Week

The door was kicked in, the frame split in a storm, or the closing is next week. Here is what fast means for an entry door and what decides it.

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Custom-Ordered Entry Door: What the Wait Looks Like

You picked the glass, the color and the handleset, and now you are waiting. Here is what is happening in that time and when you will hear from us.

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In-Stock 6-Foot Patio Door, Installed This Week

The glass cracked, the frame is bent, or the old slider finally will not lock. If a six-foot white slider fits, this can move fast. Here is what decides it.

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8-Foot Patio Door Replacement

The wide slider off the dining room or walkout is two big panels and a lot of glass. It is replaced the same way as a six-foot door, with more hands and a longer sill pan.

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Patio Door on a Townhome Deck

Your slider opens onto a small deck, your neighbor's wall is a few feet away, and the association has opinions about the color. One door, done inside those lines.

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Replace the Patio Door Before Winter

The slider frosted over last January and the curtains moved in the draft. If you want it fixed before that happens again, the order goes in this fall.

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Smooth Fiberglass Entry Door, Painted Your Color

You want a front door in a real color, a deep blue or black or barn red, with a smooth face that takes paint like a wall. That is a smooth fiberglass door.

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Steel Six-Panel Entry Door Replacement

You do not need glass, a color or a design. You need a solid door that locks, seals and does not cost a fortune. That is the steel six-panel.

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Nine-Lite Back Door Replacement

The back door to the deck or the garage is dark and tired. A nine-lite puts a grid of glass up top, lets you see who is there, and keeps a solid panel below.

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Half-Lite Back Door Replacement

You want light in the kitchen and a look at the deck, but not a wall of glass at the back door. The half-lite is the middle ground, and it can come with blinds sealed inside.

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Mid-Century Front Door Replacement

Your house has low eaves, a wide chimney and clean lines, and the big-box six-panel colonial door on it looks wrong. The right door is flat, simple and a good color.

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1970s Front Door Replacement

The door is original to the house: a dark wood slab with a small diamond or rectangular window, a skinny sidelite, a storm door that rattles, and a sill that has been wet for fifty years.

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Full-Glass Patio Door With Grids

Your windows have grids and the old patio door is a blank sheet of glass. The new door can carry the same pattern, sealed between the panes where it never needs cleaning.

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Patio Door With New Interior Trim

The old slider had drywall returns that cracked, or oak casing that does not match anything else anymore. New door, new trim, finished the same day.

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Entry Door With New Interior Trim

The new front door is going in, and the old casing inside is chipped, painted shut and the wrong profile anyway. Do the trim while the wall is open.

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One Door Quoted From Your Photos

You have one door to replace and no time for a sales visit. Take five pictures with your phone and send them. We take it from there.

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Doors by product line (11)

ProVia Embarq Fiberglass Entry Door Replacement

The front door faces north, the wind finds it every January, and you want the most door ProVia makes. Embarq is that door, and it needs an installer who has set one.

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Therma-Tru Fiber-Classic Mahogany Entry Door

You want the look of a stained mahogany front door and none of the sanding every third spring. The Fiber-Classic Mahogany is the Therma-Tru door built for that.

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Therma-Tru Profiles Steel Entry Door Replacement

The back door is rusting at the bottom and the frame is soft. You want a steel door that costs what a back door should, from a maker you know. Profiles is that door.

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Masonite Fiberglass Entry Door Replacement

You have seen Masonite fiberglass doors at the home center and online and want one measured, ordered and installed right instead of guessed at. Here is how that goes.

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Plastpro Fiberglass Entry Door Replacement

The last door rotted from the bottom up, slab and jamb both. You want the next one built so that cannot happen. Plastpro is the door people ask for by name for that reason.

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JELD-WEN Steel Entry Door Replacement

The back door is rusted through at the bottom and the lock barely catches. You want a sound steel door in it soon, not a six-week order. Here is how a stock JELD-WEN gets you there.

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Larson Tradewinds Storm Door Installation

You want a storm door you can see through all winter and open for air in June without swapping a screen panel in the garage. The Tradewinds is Larson's answer.

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Andersen 3000 Series Storm Door Installation

You want an Andersen storm door and you would rather have it measured, supplied and hung by the same people than carry a box home and find the brickmould is soft. Here is how that works.

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Andersen 400 Frenchwood Gliding Patio Door Replacement

You like the look of French doors but the deck furniture is where a swinging door would land. The Frenchwood gliding door gives the wide-rail look and slides.

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MI Sliding Patio Door Replacement

The old slider fogged and the rollers are shot. You want a vinyl patio door that matches the MI windows, in white now or a color on order. Here is the MI slider and how it goes in.

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ProVia Endure Sliding Patio Door Replacement

The windows are ProVia Endure with a woodgrain interior and a bronze exterior, and the patio door should match them. The Endure slider is built to the same finishes and your opening.

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Door styles and install details (15)

Craftsman Three-Lite Shaker Entry Door Replacement

You want the craftsman look without the fussy molding: three square lites up top, two flat panels below, painted a color. That is the shaker version, and it suits a rambler as well as a bungalow.

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Six-Panel Steel Door With One Sidelite

The front door has one skinny window next to it and the whole thing is cold and rotted at the bottom. It comes out as one unit and goes back in as one unit, in plain steel with the glass you pick.

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Fiberglass Entry Door With Blinds Between the Glass

You want a glass front door for the light, and a way to close it off at night without a curtain hanging on the door. The blind lives inside the glass.

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Entry Door With Venting Sidelites

The front entry gets no air in summer unless the door is standing open. Venting sidelites fix that: the glass beside the door opens, the screen keeps bugs out, and the door stays locked.

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Entry Door With Transom and Sidelites

The two-story foyer has the big entry: door, glass on both sides, glass above. It is drafty, the sidelite seals are gone and the sill is soft. The whole thing goes back in as one piece.

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Two-Tone Entry Door: Dark Outside, White Inside

You want a black front door from the street and white trim in the foyer, with no black slab staring at you from the hall. That is a normal order, and here is how the frame, the edges and the paint are handled.

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Modern Flush Fiberglass Entry Door Replacement

No panels, no arch, no fake wood grain: a flat door in a color with a long pull. Here is what makes a flush door work and what to order it in.

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Hinged Patio Door With Venting Sidelites

You want a hinged door to the deck, not a slider, and you still want a breeze through the kitchen. The sidelites do the venting and the door just swings.

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Center-Hinged Patio Door Replacement

The slider is done and you do not want another one. A center-hinged door is the swap that looks like French doors, fits the same hole and has one door in the middle to walk through.

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Black Interior, White Exterior Patio Door

The windows inside are black and the siding outside is white with white windows. The patio door has to be both, and only some lines do that. Here is how it is ordered.

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Back Door With Built-In Mini Blinds

The kitchen door to the deck has a curtain on a tension rod that never hangs right. A door with the blind inside the glass fixes that for good.

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Entry Door Replacement With New Brickmould and Capping

The door is going anyway, and the trim around it is cracked, peeling or soft at the bottom. New brickmould wrapped in aluminum finishes the opening and ends the painting.

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Patio Door Replacement With New Deck Ledger Flashing

The floor inside the slider is soft and the deck board against the house is black. The door is leaking into the ledger, and the fix is the door and the flashing together.

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Entry Door Set for a New Flooring Height

The entry is getting tile and a new front door the same month. Set the door for the floor that is coming, not the one that is there, and the two meet without a lip.

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Patio Door Replacement Without Touching the Drywall

The dining room was just painted. You want the slider replaced and the walls left exactly as they are. That is the standard job, and here is how the inside stays clean.

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Entry door styles and materials (13)

Craftsman Style Front Door Replacement — Lites Up Top, Dentil Shelf

The bungalow has its original wide flat trim and tapered porch columns, and the front door is a flat 1970s replacement that never looked right. A craftsman door puts the entry back the way the house was drawn.

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Modern Front Door Replacement — Flush Slab, Narrow Lites, Flat Trim

The house has clean lines and the front door is a raised six-panel from the builder. A flush door with a column of small lites and square trim finishes the elevation.

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Farmhouse Front Door Replacement — Shaker Panels, Half Lite, Flat Trim

Either the house is a new build with board and batten and black windows, or it is the original farmhouse on the section with a door that stopped sealing years ago. Both get a farmhouse door.

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Wood Front Door Replacement — New Mahogany, Oak or Fir Entry Door

You want real wood at the front of the house: the grain, the weight, the sound it makes when it shuts. It can last in Minnesota if the door is picked, finished and set for the exposure it will get.

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Stained Woodgrain Fiberglass Entry Door — Grain, Stain Color, Topcoat

You want the look of a stained wood door without refinishing it every few summers. A woodgrain fiberglass door with the right grain and stain does that, and the choices are made before the order goes in.

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Black Front Door Replacement — Finish, Heat and Hardware Finish Picked

Black is the most asked-for front door color right now. It looks right on white siding and brick, and it has three things to get right: the finish, the heat, and the hardware.

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Arched Top Entry Door Replacement — Radius Door or Arched Transom

The opening has a curve at the top and the old arched door is leaking, warped or simply dated. The replacement is ordered to the curve, which is a different job from a square door.

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Decorative Glass Front Door Replacement — New Door, Leaded or Beveled

You want glass in the front door that lets light into the foyer and looks like something from the street, and you want the whole door new rather than a new pane in the old slab.

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Privacy Glass Front Door — Light In, No View In, New Prehung Door

The front door opens straight into the living room, the entry is dark, and you do not want a clear window anyone can look through. Obscure glass in a new door solves both at once.

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Full Lite vs Half Lite Entry Door — How Much Glass in a New Front Door

You know you want glass in the new front door. The question is how much, and the answer depends on what the door faces, what it opens into and who walks past it.

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Wrought Iron Style Entry Door — Iron Grille Over Glass, Built for Cold

You want the scrollwork and the arch-top glass of an iron door on the front of the house. There are two ways to get the look, and in this climate they behave very differently.

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Security Rated Steel Front Door — Reinforced Frame, Multipoint Option

You want the front door to be the hardest door on the block to get through, and you want it to still be a good-looking insulated entry door that seals in January. Both are in the order.

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Inswing vs Outswing Entry Door — Which Way a New Door Should Swing

The old door swings in and eats the landing, or it swings out and you have to shovel before you can leave. The new door can go either way, and the choice is made before it is ordered.

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Entry doors by house and place (11)

Rambler Front Door Replacement — Low Stoop, Door Into the Living Room

The rambler is the most common house in the first-ring suburbs, and its front door is usually the original: wood, a sidelite on one side, a step up from a concrete stoop, and the living room right behind it.

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Cape Cod Front Door Replacement — Small Entry, Storm Door and Hood

The cape has a steep roof, dormers, and a front door in the middle with a little hood or nothing over it. The entry is small, the storm door is doing half the work, and the original door is tired.

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Colonial Two Story Front Door Replacement — Center Entry, Six Panel

The house is a two story with the door in the middle and the windows lined up on each side. The door has to hold the center of that picture, and it usually has no roof over it.

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Lake Cabin Entry Door Replacement — Done While You Are Away

The cabin door has been sticking, the bottom is soft and something chewed its way in last fall. You are up on weekends; the door work can happen on a weekday while you are not.

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Log Home Entry Door Replacement — Bucks, Settling Space, Log Trim

The door in a log wall sits in a frame within a frame, and the wall above it is still moving. A door swap that ignores that ends up pinched shut the first winter.

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Barndominium Entry and Patio Doors — Set in Steel Building Wall Bucks

A post-frame house has steel outside and girts where a stick-built house has studs. The doors are the same as any house; the opening they sit in is not.

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Mudroom Door Replacement — The Hard-Use Door Where Boots Come In

The mudroom door gets opened fifty times a day by kids, dogs and grocery bags, and it is the door that is kicked shut with a boot. It wears out first, and it should be replaced with a door built for that.

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Side Entry Door Replacement — The Driveway Door Everyone Really Uses

The front door is for guests. The side door off the driveway is the one that sees a hundred trips a week, sits under the roof edge with nothing over it, and gets the snowbank from the shoveled walk.

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Kitchen Patio Door Replacement — Slider or French Door Off the Kitchen

The patio door in the kitchen is the busiest door in the house from May to October: kids, dog, plates to the grill, and the screen that never stays on its track. The replacement is chosen for that room.

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Deck Door Replacement — Threshold to the Decking, Flashed to Ledger

The door onto the deck is where the house and the deck meet, and that joint is where water gets in. The new door is set so the deck boards, the threshold and the ledger flashing work together.

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Patio Door Replacement for a Walkout Rambler — The Main Floor Door

On a walkout rambler the main-floor slider sits a story up, over the basement patio. Same door, different job site: the deck is the stage and the rim joist under it is what the flashing protects.

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Choosing the patio door (10)

Vinyl vs Fiberglass Patio Door — Which Frame to Order in Minnesota

You know the old slider is coming out. The question is which frame goes in: vinyl or fiberglass, and whether the difference matters on your side of the house.

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Wood Clad Patio Door Replacement — Wood Inside, Clad Outside

You have stained oak or pine trim and a slider that does not match it, or an old all-wood patio door that is rotting from the outside in. A clad wood door fixes both.

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Contemporary Narrow Frame Patio Door — Thin Stiles, More Glass

The old slider has four inches of frame around every pane and the room feels closed in. A narrow-frame contemporary unit in the same opening is the fix.

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Patio Door With Transom Replacement — Door and Transom as One Unit

Your patio door has a window above it and the two are one opening. Replacing only the door leaves an old transom, an old joint and the leak that usually started there.

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Low Threshold Patio Door Replacement — Choosing a Low-Sill Unit

Someone in the house catches a toe on the patio door sill, or a walker or wheelchair has to bump over it. The replacement door can be ordered with a lower sill, and the install decides whether it stays dry.

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Patio Door for Dogs — Tough Frames, Built-In Blinds, Factory Pet Door

The old slider has a chewed track, a screen with a dog-shaped hole and a frame scratched down to bare vinyl. The new one can be ordered so none of that happens again.

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5 Foot Patio Door — Sliding Door Replacement for a Small Opening

Your patio door is narrower than the ones at the store, and nobody seems to stock the size. Five-foot sliders exist; the job is getting the right one for your opening.

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Black Patio Door Replacement — Dark Frames Inside and Out

You want the black frame and the view it makes. The question is which door material holds that color on a west wall in July without the panel dragging in the track.

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Patio Door Glass Options on a New Unit — Low-E, Argon, Triple, Obscure

The order form for a new patio door has a glass section with a dozen boxes. Which ones you check depends on which wall the door is on and what the room is for.

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Which Side Should a Patio Door Slide? Handing a New Door for the Room

The old door slid on the wrong side for thirty years and everyone walked around the couch to use it. The replacement is the one chance to fix that, and it has to be right on the order form.

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Interior door upgrades (7)

Shaker Interior Door Replacement — Flat Panel Shaker Doors Hung

You want the clean flat-panel look on the bedroom and hall doors, and you want them to close right. Shaker doors come in more versions than the store shows, and the right one depends on your jambs and your trim.

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Replace Six Panel Doors With Flat Panel Doors — Colonial to Modern

Every door in the house is the same hollow six-panel colonial from the builder, and the rest of the house has moved on. Flat doors in the same openings change every room at once.

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8 Foot Tall Interior Doors — Taller Doors for a 9 or 10 Foot Ceiling

Your ceilings are nine feet and every door stops at six-eight, so there is a foot and a half of wall over each one. Taller doors fix the proportion, and it is a framing job before it is a door job.

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Double Interior Doors for a Home Office — A Pair That Closes for Calls

The front room is now the office and it has a cased opening with no door, or a single door that leaves a dark box. A pair of doors makes it a room that opens to the house and closes for a meeting.

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Frosted Glass Office Door — Light In, Screen Hidden From the Hall

The office door is solid, the room is dark with it shut, and open it broadcasts your screen to the hall. Frosted glass in the door fixes both without changing the opening.

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Black Interior Doors — Factory Finished or Painted, Hung and Cased

You want black doors against white walls and trim, and you want them to look like they came that way, not like a weekend paint job with brush marks. The door you order decides most of that.

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Interior Door Replacement Before Selling a House — Which Doors to Do

The listing photos are in two weeks and three doors have holes, one is a different style, and the primary bedroom door sticks. Fix those; leave the rest.

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Situations and timing (9)

Front Door Replacement Before Selling — What to Order, What to Skip

The realtor walked up to the house, looked at the front door and said that has to go. Here is what to order so it is done before the photographer comes, and what not to spend on.

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Front Door Replacement After Buying a House — The Inspection Door

The inspection report has a paragraph about the front door, the seller did not fix it, and you have the keys and an empty house for two weeks. That is the best window a front door ever gets.

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Front Door Replacement in a Historic District — Matching the Original

The house is in a designated district, the front door is past saving, and the replacement has to pass review. The door is ordered to match what was there, and the paperwork is part of the job.

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Cold Entryway Front Door Replacement — Insulated Unit and Sill Pan

The entry is the coldest spot in the house. The floor by the door is cold, the door is cold to the touch from inside, and there is frost at the threshold on the worst mornings. The door and its frame are the reason.

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Drafty Patio Door: Replace It or Not? When the Unit Is Done

You can feel the cold standing next to the slider in January and you want to know whether a new door is the answer or an overreaction. Here is how we decide.

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Patio Door Replacement for an Airbnb or Lake Rental — Between Bookings

The slider at the lake place is dragging, the screen is torn again, and the next guests arrive Friday. The door gets replaced Tuesday and nobody has to be there.

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Entry Door Replacement During a Siding Job — Sequenced With the Siding

The siding is coming off the whole house in a month and the front and back doors are tired. This is the one time replacing them is cheaper and cleaner than it will ever be.

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Front Door Curb Appeal Makeover — Door, Trim and Sidelights as One Job

The front door is fine but the entry looks like nobody ever thought about it. A new door alone fixes half of that; the trim, the glass and the hardware fix the rest, and they should be one order.

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Entry and Patio Door Package — Front Door and Slider on One Order

The front door and the slider are both due, and doing them separately means two colors that almost match and two hardware finishes that do not. One order fixes that before it happens.

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Interior doors (8)

Replace All the Interior Doors in a House — One Style, One Visit

Every door in the house is a different flat-panel from a different decade, half the knobs are brass and the closet doors are missing. One order, one crew, one style everywhere, done in a few days.

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Fit a Slab Door Into an Existing Jamb

The jamb and casing are fine, the door is not. A bare slab from the store fitted to the frame you have — hinge mortises cut to match, lock bored, edges planed until it swings clean.

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Solid Core Doors for Soundproofing — Quiet Bedroom Door Upgrade

The nursery next to the TV room, the home office on a call while the kids are home, the bedroom over the kitchen. The door is the weak spot in the wall. A solid core door with seals fixes most of it.

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Louvered Door Installation — Laundry, Furnace and Utility Room Doors

The furnace closet has a solid door and the HVAC tech said it needs air. The laundry room gets hot and damp with the door shut. A louvered door fixes both without a fan or a wall vent.

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Frosted Glass Pantry Door Installation in an Existing Opening

The pantry has a plain hollow-core door or a bifold that never closed right. A frosted glass door lets the light through, hides the cereal boxes, and turns a closet into part of the kitchen.

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Sliding Barn Door Installation — Header Board, Track and Hardware

A barn door is a hundred pounds hanging on two wheels. It has to be on a track that is level and screwed into wood, or it drifts, rattles and pulls out of the drywall. We install it so it stays put.

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Hidden Bookcase Door Installation — Kits Installed or Built In

The bookcase door is in a crate in the garage, or it is still an idea for the basement storage room. Either way it has to hang plumb and swing clear of the floor.

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Insulated Attic Knee Wall Access Door — Sealed So Upstairs Stays Warm

The little door into the side attic is a panel of plywood or a hollow-core slab, and the bedroom next to it is the coldest room in the house.

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New openings and conversions (7)

Add a Door to an Existing Wall — Cut a New Doorway

A bedroom that needs its own way into the bathroom, a basement office with the only door on the wrong side, a laundry room you walk around the house to reach. We cut the doorway and hang the door.

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Remove a Door and Close the Wall — Fill In a Doorway

A second door into the bedroom nobody uses, a doorway that eats the only wall the couch fits on, an old closet door after the closet moved. We take the door out and make the wall whole.

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Convert Single Door to Double Doors — Widen the Opening, Hang the Pair

An office, dining room, pantry or primary bedroom wants a wide two-door opening instead of a single door. We do the framing and the doors in one job, both sides of the wall.

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Cased Opening — Remove the Door and Trim the Doorway Out

The door between the kitchen and dining room that is always open, the hallway door that bangs the fridge, the basement door that has never been closed. Take it off, trim the opening, and it looks intended.

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Arched Cased Opening — Convert a Square Doorway to an Arch

The square opening between the living room and the hall wants to be an arch like the ones in the front room. We frame the curve, then drywall it or trim it, so it matches.

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Add a Transom Window Above a Door — Header Raised, Glass Set, Trimmed

The hallway is dark, the front entry has no light over the door, and you want a band of glass above the door without replacing the whole door.

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Replace Door Casing Only — New Trim on Existing Doors

The doors are fine. The skinny clamshell casing around them is not. New trim on every door in the house changes the whole place and does not need a single door replaced.

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Repairs and adjustments (10)

Door Hinge Replacement — Fix a Sagging or Dragging Door at the Hinge

The door drops at the latch side, drags on the carpet, and lifting it is the only way to close it. The hinges are worn, the screws have let go, or the mortise is chewed out. We fix that side of the door.

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Door Won't Latch — Strike, Hinge and Hardware Fixes

The bedroom door drifts open, the bathroom door needs a shoulder, the front door latches only if you lift it. Small fixes, done right, before anyone talks about replacing the door.

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Door Rubbing on the Jamb — Plane, Shim and Adjust Instead of Replace

The bathroom door needs a hip in July and closes fine in January, or the bedroom door has rubbed a bare stripe into the jamb since the house settled. It is a fitting problem, not a door problem.

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Shorten Doors After New Flooring — Cut Down Doors That Rub

The flooring crew finished, the doors do not close anymore, and cutting them was not in their contract. We cut them down cleanly and hang them back the same day.

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Reverse a Door Swing — Rehang a Door to Open the Other Way

The bathroom door that blocks the vanity, the bedroom door that swings into the light switch, the door that would work if it just opened the other way. We rehang it.

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Rotted Door Jamb Bottom — Exterior Door Frame Rot Repair

The paint at the bottom of the door frame is bubbling, a screwdriver sinks into the wood, and the weatherstrip has nothing to hold it. The jamb leg is rotted at the bottom. We splice it, not the whole door.

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Exterior Door Threshold Replacement — Replace a Rotted Door Sill

The threshold rocks when you step on it, the cap is cracked, the wood under it is black, or the sweep has nothing to seal against. We replace the sill and set it so the door closes tight.

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Fiberglass Door Bottom Delaminating or Rotted — Repair or Replace

The bottom of the fiberglass door is swollen, the skin is lifting and the paint is cracked along the bottom rail. Here is what is going on inside it.

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Front Door Frame Kicked In — Exterior Jamb Repair After a Break-In

Someone kicked the door and the jamb gave way at the deadbolt. The door will not lock, cold air is coming in around the split, and you want it secured today. We rebuild the frame stronger than it was.

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Pocket Door Repair — Off the Track, Rollers and Hardware

The bathroom pocket door has been jumping the track for a year and now it is stuck halfway in the wall. Most of these are a roller job through the jamb, not a drywall job.

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Labor-only and buying help (8)

Home Depot or Lowe's Door Installation, Labor Only

The store delivered the door to your driveway and the install quote they emailed is weeks out or bigger than the door. We hang Home Depot and Lowe's doors as a plain labor job.

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Menards Door Installation — Labor Only, You Buy the Door

The door is sitting in the Menards lumberyard, or already in your garage, and you need someone who will hang it square, seal it and make it latch — not a store referral list.

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Sliding Patio Door Installation, Labor Only — You Buy the Door

A new slider sitting in the garage and an old one that drags and leaks. We set it in a pan, square it, and make sure the screen and lock work before we pack up.

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French Patio Door Installation, Labor Only — Hinged Patio Doors

A hinged patio door is two doors that have to meet in the middle, on a sill that takes every Minnesota storm. We set it plumb, panned and flashed so it locks smooth and stays dry.

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Storm Door Installation, Labor Only — You Buy the Storm Door

The storm door is in the box in the garage. The instructions are 40 pages. We mount it plumb on your brickmould, set the closer, and make it latch on the first try.

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Install a Window You Bought Online — Labor-Only Window Installation

The window company wants to sell you their window. You already found yours online and just need it put in right: flashed, foamed, square, and trimmed by a crew that installs windows for a living.

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How to Measure for a Replacement Door — Jamb, Rough Opening, Handing

Four measurements and one photo are enough to buy the right door. Here is what to measure, how to tell the handing, and what to send us so we can confirm it before you pay.

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Prehung vs Slab Door: Which to Buy for a Replacement

Standing in the door aisle wondering whether you need the whole frame or just the door? Here is how a carpenter decides, what to measure, and how to read the handing.

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More doors jobs (54)

8 Foot Front Door Replacement — Converting a 6'8 Entry to 8'0

Your entry has 9-foot walls or a two-story foyer and a 6'8 door that looks short in it. An 8'0 door fits the room, if the wall has room above the door for a header.

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Andersen 200 Series Gliding Patio Door Replacement, Supplied

You want an Andersen slider without paying for the 400 Series. The 200 Series has two gliding doors, and the right one depends on whether you want wood inside.

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Balcony Door Replacement — Upper-Floor Patio and Juliet Doors

The door to the upper deck leaks, sticks or drafts — and the stain shows up on the ceiling below. Up there, the flashing matters more than the door.

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Bifold Patio Door Installation — Folding and Multi-Slide Glass Walls

A whole wall of glass that folds or slides out of the way. The panels are the easy part; the header, the sill and the floor have to be right before they arrive.

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Condo Entry Door Replacement — Fire-Rated Door to the Hallway

Your condo door to the hallway is beat up, sticks, or will not latch. It is a fire door, so the replacement has to be one too.

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Dog Scratched Door Repair — Door, Casing and Jamb

The dog wants out, and the bottom of the door, the casing and the jamb show it. Some of it fills and paints; the chewed parts get replaced.

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Door Replacement in a Brick House — Sized to the Brick Opening

Your front or patio door sits inside a brick opening with a steel lintel above and a brick or concrete sill below. The new door has to fit that hole as it is.

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Door Replacement in a Stucco House — Entry and Patio Doors

Your front door or patio door sits in a stucco wall, and you have heard that pulling it out cracks the stucco for a foot around. It does when it is pried. Here is how it is done instead.

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Door Sticks in Winter — Frost Heave and Truss Uplift Door Fixes

Every January the front door scrapes the threshold, the hall door rubs at the top and the bedroom door will not latch. In May they all work again. The house is moving, and the doors have to be set for it.

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Door Swings Open by Itself — Jamb and Hinge Fixes for Drifting Doors

The bedroom door creeps open at night, or the bathroom door swings shut every time you let go. It is not a ghost. The hinge side of the door is leaning.

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Factory Finished Front Door vs Painting or Staining It After Install

You have picked the door. Now the order form asks: finished at the factory, or primed for paint? That box changes the color choices, the wait and what happens after install day.

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French Door Astragal Replacement — Stop Drafts Between Double Doors

You can see daylight down the middle of your French doors, feel cold air there in January, or find water on the floor under the center. That strip in the middle is the astragal, and it can be replaced.

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Front Door and Storm Door Replaced Together — Sized to Fit Each Other

You are replacing the front door and the storm door is old too. You want them to fit each other, look like they belong together, and go in on the same day.

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Front Door for Full Sun — South and West Facing Door Replacement

The stain on the west-facing door is gray and peeling again, or the dark door behind the storm door is too hot to touch by mid-afternoon. A door in full sun needs a different set of choices.

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Front Door Handleset Replacement — New Holes Bored, Old Ones Filled

You bought a new handleset for the front door and the box says it fits standard doors. Your door is not quite standard, and the old holes are in the wrong spot.

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Front Door Installation: What to Expect From Arrival to Walkthrough

The door is ordered and the date is set. Here is what happens at your front entry that day, step by step, and what you need to do before we arrive.

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Front Door Leaking When It Rains — Leak Found, Then Fixed

Every hard rain there is a puddle inside the front door, or a drip from the top of the frame. Caulking everything in sight has not stopped it.

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Front Door Replacement Cost Factors — What Moves the Price

Two front door quotes can be far apart and both be honest. The difference is in what each one includes. Here is what changes the number, so you can read a quote and compare.

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Hole in Hollow Core Door — Patch It or Replace the Slab

Somebody put a fist, a knob or a foot through a bedroom door. Spackle will not hold over cardboard, so it gets a real patch or a new slab.

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Multipoint Lock Repair — Stuck Handle, Gearbox and Keepers Fixed

You lift the handle to lock the door and it will not go, or it goes halfway and sticks, or the handle droops and does nothing. That is a multipoint lock, and it can be fixed without a new door.

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Odd Size Exterior Door Replacement — Custom Order or Reframe

The old door is an inch or two off every size on the shelf. You can order a door to fit the hole, or make the hole fit a stock door — we price both.

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Outswing Patio Door Replacement — Hinged Doors That Open Onto the Deck

The table sits right where the French doors swing. An outswing patio door opens onto the deck instead, and gives the kitchen its floor back.

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Patio Door Replacement Cost Factors — What Moves the Price

You want a number for a new patio door, and every company gives one without saying what is in it. This is what moves the price, and how our quote shows each part.

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Patio Door Replacement in Winter — One-Day Swap, House Kept Warm

Frost on the inside of the slider, ice on the track, a cold draft across the kitchen floor, and it is January. The door can be replaced now; the day just runs a little differently.

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ProVia Legacy Steel Entry Door Replacement — 20-Gauge, Installed

The old steel door is dented, rusting at the bottom or flexes when you shut it. You want steel again, just heavier, and in a style that does not look like a utility door.

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ProVia Signet Fiberglass Entry Door Replacement, Made to Order

You want a front door that reads as stained wood up close and does not need refinishing every few summers. Signet is ProVia's woodgrain fiberglass line for that.

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Remove Storm Door — Taken Off, Holes Filled, Brickmould Repaired

The storm door is bent, the closer is shot, or you just want to see your new front door. Taking it off is easy. Making the trim look right afterward is the job.

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Replace a 3 Panel Sliding Patio Door — and 4-Panel Wide Sliders

Your patio door is three or four panels wide, the rollers are shot, the glass has fogged and nobody wants to quote it because it does not come off a store shelf.

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Replace a 6 Foot Patio Door With 8 Foot — Widening the Opening

The six-foot slider works, but the room wants more glass and a wider way out to the deck. The wall can open up; this is what it takes.

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Replace All Exterior Doors — Front, Back, Garage Entry and Patio

Every door on the house is the original: the front is drafty, the back sticks, the garage entry is rusted at the bottom and the slider drags. You want them done once, matched, on one schedule.

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Replace Double Doors With Single Door and Sidelites — Same Opening

Nobody opens the second door. The flush bolts stick, the middle drafts, and the pair swings into the entry. One door with glass beside it fills the same opening.

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Replace French Doors With a Sliding Door — Hinged Pair to Slider

The French doors swing into the table, the astragal leaks and one door never latches right. A slider opens in its own track and gives the floor back.

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Replace Front Door in Winter — Open Time, Heat Loss, Cold Sealants

Frost on the jamb, a cold floor, a deadbolt that will not throw — and it is January. A door can be replaced now; the work just runs a little differently.

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Replace Multiple Patio Doors — Two or Three Sliders Matched

Your house faces the lake or the yard with two or three patio doors, all the same age, all dragging, fogging or leaking. You want them replaced once and matched.

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Rotted Subfloor Under Patio Door — Floor, Rim and Sill Pan Repaired

The floor is soft in front of the sliding door, the flooring is buckled, or there is a stain on the basement rim below it. The door has been leaking into the floor.

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Screen Porch Door Replacement — Wood or Vinyl, Hung to Close Right

The porch screen door drags, sags at the latch, slams all summer, or has rotted at the bottom. A new one is only as good as the opening it hangs in.

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Security Storm Door Installation — Heavy Frame, Deadbolt, Solid Mount

You want the front door open to the screen in summer without leaving the house wide open. A security storm door adds a heavy frame and a real lock in front of the entry door.

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Single Swing Patio Door Replacement — One Hinged Door to the Deck

One hinged glass door to the deck, maybe a fixed glass panel next to it. It drafts on the latch side and the screen never fit. The new one is ordered around how you use the door.

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Sliding Door Frozen Shut — Ice on the Track and Sill, Fixed

The slider is welded shut by a ridge of ice along the track, or frost grows on the inside of the sill every cold night. Either the water cannot get out or the warm air is getting in.

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Sliding Door Glass Replacement — Foggy or Cracked Patio Door Glass

Your patio door glass is fogged between the panes, or a crack ran across it on its own. The frame is fine. You want the glass fixed, not a new door.

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Sliding Door Weatherstripping Replacement — Pile, Fin and Interlock

The sliding glass door lets cold air in along the edge and down the middle, and you can feel it from the couch. Most of the time the seals are worn, not the door.

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Steel vs Fiberglass Front Door — Dents, Finish, Cold and Cost Drivers

You know the old front door has to go. The first fork in the order is the skin: steel or fiberglass. Here is how the two differ on a Minnesota house, without the sales pitch.

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Storm Door for a Back Door — Side, Kitchen and Garage Entry Doors

The back door gets used ten times a day, the step outside is small, and you want a screen for the kitchen in summer. The storm door has to work with all three.

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Storm Door for an Odd Size Opening — Build-Out or Custom Order

You bought a storm door and it will not fit, or the store does not sell one in your size. The opening can be built out, or the door can be made to the opening.

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Storm Door for Double Doors — A Pair Over French or Double Entry Doors

Your double front doors or French doors have no storm door, because a single one will not cover them. A matched pair will, if the opening, the step and the hardware all work together.

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Storm Door With Pet Door — Built-In Panel Matched to the Entry Door

The dog uses the back door twelve times a day and the storm door is in the way. A storm door with a pet panel, lined up with one in the entry door, lets the dog through both.

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Therma-Tru Classic-Craft Entry Door Replacement — One Front Entry

Only the front door needs replacing, and it is the one everyone sees. Classic-Craft is the top of the Therma-Tru line, with sidelites and glass to match.

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Therma-Tru Smooth-Star Entry Door Replacement — Painted Fiberglass

You want a painted front, side or back door that will not dent like steel or swell like wood. Smooth-Star is Therma-Tru's smooth fiberglass line for exactly that.

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Three Season Porch Door Replacement — House-to-Porch and Outside Doors

The old back door now opens into the porch and leaks cold all winter, and the porch's own door drags on the floor and will not latch. Two doors, two different jobs.

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Townhome Front Door Replacement in an HOA — Approval to Install

Your townhome door is drafty or worn out, and the association has a say in what replaces it. We give you what the approval form asks for, then install the door it approves.

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Triple Pane Patio Door — Which Lines Offer It, Weight and Frost

You sit next to the patio door all winter and feel the cold coming off the glass. You want the warmest door you can buy, and the first question is which doors even offer three panes.

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Warped Front Door — Bowed Slab or Racked Frame, Fixed or Replaced

Daylight shows at the top corner, the weatherstrip only touches in the middle, and the deadbolt fights you every cold morning. Something is out of flat, and it is either the door or the frame.

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Wider Front Door, 42 Inch or 36 Inch — Widening the Entry Opening

The front door is 32 inches and the couch, the walker or the stroller barely make it. Widening the opening gets you a 36 or 42 inch door, and the work is in the wall around it.

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Wood Front Door Bottom Rotted — Repair the Rail or Replace the Slab

Your solid wood front door is soft, split or black along the bottom, and you want to know whether it can be saved or has to go.

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