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Mastercraft Door Installation, Labor Only — Menards Prehung Doors

The Mastercraft door came home on the rebate weekend and has been leaning in the garage since.

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Mastercraft door installation labor only: JMB Builders installs the Mastercraft doors you bought at Menards, across the Twin Cities metro. Mastercraft is the Menards house brand for entry doors, interior prehungs, French doors and patio sliders; we are an independent installer with no tie to the store. We check the unit at pickup, pull the old door, set it plumb, seal it if exterior, hang your hardware and case it. Priced per door, quoted from photos.

  • Priced per door, labor only
  • Entry, interior, French and patio doors
  • Independent installer, not a Menards program
Installer setting a new window into an exterior wall opening

Mastercraft is the name Menards puts on most of its doors: steel and fiberglass entry units, primed and prefinished interior prehungs in the common panel styles, French door pairs, and vinyl patio sliders. Menards is all over the Twin Cities, so we see a lot of Mastercraft. We install it as a labor-only job. We are an independent installer with no connection to Menards or the brand; the store sells the door and we hang it to the instructions in the box.

The Mastercraft catalog gives you choices the rack does not, and they matter to the install: a wider jamb for a thick wall, prefinished instead of primed, a fiberglass skin instead of steel, a French pair with an astragal already fitted. Order the right options and the install is clean. Order a narrow jamb for a thick wall and the inside needs an extension before it can be cased. We read the order for you before you pay, no charge.

At pickup, before it goes in the truck, look at the hinge edge for dents, check the label for the handing you wanted, and make sure the sill and weatherstrip are on the unit. A stock Mastercraft door with the wrap intact goes back to the store; a special order does not.

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.

Photos (optional)

Up to 3: one wide shot of the area, one close-up of the opening or trim, one of anything you're unsure about.

How do you want your quote?

Free, no obligation. Every quote is written and itemized, so you can compare it line by line.

What you supply

  • The Mastercraft door from Menards: entry, interior, French or patio, in the right size, handing and jamb width
  • Locksets, deadbolts, knobs and levers; Mastercraft units ship without them
  • Brickmould if you want a profile other than what came on an exterior unit
  • Paint or stain color for primed doors and new casing if we are finishing them; quoted as its own line

What JMB supplies

  • A read of your Menards order or the unit label against your opening before you buy, no charge
  • Removal and haul-away of the old door, jamb and casing
  • Sill pan, flashing tape, shims, long screws, low-expansion foam and sealant on exterior units
  • Jamb extensions when the unit's jamb is narrower than the wall
  • Casing in a standard profile or matched to the house, on both sides
  • Framing or rot repair at the opening when we find it, quoted first
  • Hardware installed, astragal and flush bolts set on French pairs, rollers adjusted on sliders
  • Photos of the finished doors in your job folder
  • Painting or staining primed doors and casing as its own line on the quote

How it is priced: per door

Quoted in writing from your photos, with a reply within one business day. What moves the number:

  • Door type: a steel or fiberglass entry unit vs. an interior prehung vs. a French pair or patio slider
  • Rot at the sill or bottom of the jambs, common on exterior and garage service doors
  • Jamb extensions when the ordered jamb does not reach the drywall
  • Whether the opening fits the stock size or has to be reframed
  • Painting or staining primed units, quoted as its own line
  • Number of doors in the same trip; a whole-house interior set is priced far below single doors

Send a photo of the Mastercraft label on the unit, photos of the opening from both sides, and a tape across the old slab or frame.

How long it takes

One Mastercraft entry door: about half a day. Interior prehungs: four to eight a day. A French pair or a patio slider: most of a day.

How your project works

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    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

Mastercraft steel and fiberglass entry doors

Prehung exterior units with a factory sill and weatherstrip. Set on a pan, hinge jamb plumbed, long screws into the stud, foamed, sealed, lock hardware hung and cased. A fiberglass skin that comes primed gets paint or stain as a separate line.

Mastercraft interior prehungs, primed or prefinished

Molded panel and flat-panel hollow-core or solid-core prehungs. Set with even reveals, shimmed at every hinge and the strike, cased both sides. Prefinished units stay in the wrap until they are hung; primed units get painted as a separate line.

Mastercraft French door pairs

Interior or exterior pairs with an astragal on the inactive door. Both jambs plumbed, the pair hung so the meeting edges line up, flush bolts set top and bottom, and the active door latched to the astragal.

Mastercraft vinyl patio sliders

Two-panel sliding doors with a nailing fin. Old slider out, subfloor checked, sill pan formed, frame set level, fin taped, panels and screen hung and the rollers adjusted so it glides and locks.

Mastercraft Door Installation, Labor Only — Menards Prehung Doors: questions, answered

Who installs Mastercraft doors?

JMB Builders installs Mastercraft doors homeowners have bought at Menards, labor only, across the Twin Cities metro. We are an independent licensed Minnesota contractor, not a Menards installer and not tied to the brand. Entry, interior, French and patio doors: we check the label against your opening, remove the old door, set the new one, seal it if it is exterior, hang your hardware and case it. Priced per door, quoted from photos, with a reply within one business day.

Do Mastercraft interior doors come prefinished?

Some do. Menards sells Mastercraft interior prehungs both primed and prefinished, and the order line or the tag says which. Primed doors need paint after they are hung, which we quote as its own line or you do yourself. Prefinished doors are done when hung, and we leave the wrap on until the unit is set so the finish is not marked during install.

Can you install a Mastercraft French door or patio door?

Yes. A French pair takes longer than a single door because both jambs have to be plumb and the two doors have to meet evenly at the astragal, with flush bolts set on the inactive door. A patio slider is a heavier two-person set on a sill pan with the frame dead level so the panel rolls straight. Either one is most of a day and we quote it from photos of the opening.

What should I check on a Mastercraft door at Menards pickup?

Before it goes in the truck: the handing on the label matches what you ordered, the jamb width matches your wall, the hinge edge and skin have no dents, the sill and weatherstrip are on the unit, and brickmould is there if it was supposed to be. Take a photo of the label and send it to us. A stock door with the wrap intact exchanges easily; a special order is yours once it leaves the store.

Can you install a Mastercraft door in a thick wall?

Yes. Mastercraft units can be ordered with a wider jamb to match a thicker wall, which is the clean way to do it. If the door already came home with the standard jamb and the wall is thicker, we add a jamb extension on the inside so the casing sits flat on the drywall. It is a small extra on the quote and it looks fine painted. Send a photo with a tape across the wall at the old jamb and we tell you which way to go.

What do I need to buy besides the Mastercraft door?

Lock hardware: a lockset and deadbolt for an entry door, a knob or lever for each interior door, a handle set for a patio slider if you want something other than the stock one. Mastercraft units do not include them. Interior casing, sill pan, flashing, foam and shims are not in the box either; we bring all of that. If we are painting, pick the color before install day.

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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