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.
Reply within one business day. Or call / text 763-250-3621.
Therma-Tru Profiles steel entry door replacement puts in Therma-Tru's standard steel door: a smooth, primed steel skin over an insulating core, with crisp panel lines, Low-E glass options and a matched frame, sill and weatherstrip. It is the practical door for a back, side or garage entry. JMB Builders measures, orders through ABC Supply and installs across the Twin Cities metro. Priced per door. Send photos and we reply within one business day, or book a free in-home estimate.
- Priced per door, Profiles steel door included
- Primed steel, ready for paint
- Back, side and garage-to-house entries
Therma-Tru is known for fiberglass, but it sells steel doors too. Profiles is its standard steel line: a smooth steel skin with sharply defined panel embossing over an insulating core, primed and ready to paint. Traditions is the plainer value steel door beside it. Both come as a complete unit with the frame, sill and weatherstrip Therma-Tru puts under its fiberglass doors.
Steel makes sense where a door takes abuse and gets painted anyway: the back door off the deck, the side door to the driveway, the door between the garage and the house. Styles run from six-panel and two-panel to half-lite and full-lite designs, with Low-E glass available in the lites. The door arrives primed; painting is quoted as a separate line, or leave it primed and caulked and paint it yourself.
We measure the opening, order through ABC Supply, our supplier, and install: old door and frame out, rot at the sill repaired, sill pan and flashing, the unit shimmed at every hinge, screwed into the framing, foamed, sealed and trimmed. We are the installer. Options such as Therma-Tru Smooth-Star fiberglass and ProVia Legacy steel can be priced beside it when you are deciding.
Get a written quote for this job
Three photos and a sentence is enough: a reply within one business day, or ask for a free in-home estimate. Or text the photos to 763-250-3621.
What you supply
- Photos of the door inside and out, and a close-up of the sill and the bottom of the frame
- Panel style: six-panel, two-panel, half-lite or full-lite, and glass if any
- Swing and hinge side, and the lockset and deadbolt you want
- Paint color for the door and casing: Painting is quoted as a separate line — or leave it primed and caulked and paint it yourself.
What JMB supplies
- In-person measure of the opening, jamb width and swing before the order
- The Therma-Tru Profiles steel door unit, ordered through ABC Supply to that opening
- A quote with the door, the install, any rot repair and any painting on separate lines
- Removal and haul-away of the old door, frame and threshold
- Rot repair at the sill, jamb feet or subfloor, quoted from what we find
- Sill pan, flashing tape, shims at every hinge, long screws into the framing, low-expansion foam and sealant
- Strike, sill and weatherstrip adjusted, and your lockset and deadbolt installed
- Exterior trim and interior casing, primed and caulked, and photos in your job folder
How it is priced: per door
Quoted in writing from your photos, with a reply within one business day. What moves the number:
- Panel style and glass: a solid six-panel costs less than a half-lite with Low-E glass
- Rot at the sill, jamb bottoms or subfloor
- Same-size replacement vs. an opening that has to be resized
- Siding type at the opening: lap, stucco, brick or block
- Hardware: a basic lockset vs. a handle set or smart lock
- A garage-to-house door that has to be a rated door
- Painting the door and casing, quoted as a separate line
Send photos of the whole door from both sides plus a close-up of the sill. If the door is between the garage and the house, say so; that opening has its own rules.
How long it takes
One Profiles steel door in a sound opening: about a day on site. Rot repair adds time. Lead time depends on the order and is written on the quote.
How your project works
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Send photos, get a written quote
Send three photos of the space and a sentence about what you want. You get a clear, itemized reply within one business day. Prefer a look in person? A free in-home estimate is always an option.
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Pick materials, or bring your own
We help you choose profiles and materials that fit the house and the budget, or match your existing millwork exactly — or you buy the door or trim yourself and we install it. Everything is confirmed before the crew is scheduled.
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Clean, precise installation
The crew shows up on time, protects floors and furniture, and installs with tight joints and consistent reveals. Photos of the finished work go in your job folder.
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Walkthrough and invoice
We walk the finished work with you. If anything is not right, we fix it before we call the job done. Then one invoice, paid by check or direct deposit — no card fees, no payment links.
Situations and options
Six-panel steel back door
The classic. A solid six-panel Profiles door off the deck or the driveway, painted to match the trim, with a deadbolt and a storm door if you want one.
Half-lite steel side door
Glass in the top half brings light into a mudroom or a side hall. Order Low-E glass and privacy or clear, and the bottom half stays solid steel.
Garage-to-house door
The door between an attached garage and the house has rules about fire rating and self-closing. We confirm what your city requires and order the Profiles door, or another, that meets it.
Therma-Tru Profiles Steel Entry Door Replacement: questions, answered
What is the Therma-Tru Profiles door?
It is Therma-Tru's standard steel entry door: a smooth, primed steel skin with crisp panel embossing over an insulating core, sold as a complete unit with frame, sill and weatherstrip. Traditions is the plainer value steel door next to it in the catalog.
Should a back door be steel or fiberglass?
Steel is the practical pick for a back or side door that gets painted and takes knocks; it costs less and is strong. Fiberglass holds its finish longer in full sun and does not dent. For a protected back door, Profiles steel does the job; for a west-facing one, we price Smooth-Star fiberglass beside it.
Does a Therma-Tru steel door rust?
Steel rusts where the paint fails, usually at the bottom edge where snow sits. Keep it painted, including the bottom edge, and set it on a sill pan so water drains away, and it lasts. The old rusted door you are replacing was usually unpainted at the bottom or sitting in water.
Does the Profiles door come painted?
It arrives primed. Painting is quoted as a separate line, or leave it primed and caulked and paint it yourself. A steel door should be painted on all edges fairly soon after install to protect the skin.
Can the Profiles door go between the garage and the house?
Often, if the model meets your city's rating and self-closing rules for that opening. We check what the building department requires for your address and order a door that meets it, which may be a solid Profiles door with the right hinges or another unit.
Where do you get Therma-Tru Profiles doors?
We order them through ABC Supply, our supplier, to the opening from our measure, and our crew installs them. If you already bought a Therma-Tru steel door, we install it labor only.
Recent JMB work, from our job log
59 installs recorded across 30 Twin Cities communities since Dec 2025. Window and door installs for homeowners and the builders we work with. Counts come straight from our job log; no customer names.
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