Entry Door Replacement in Eden Prairie, MN
The bottom six inches of your Eden Prairie front door have bubbled and rusted through, and the wood beside it is soft.
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Entry door replacement in Eden Prairie MN is often a steel front door on a 1980s–2000s production two-story, rusted through along the bottom where salt and splash off an open stoop ate the skin and the jamb feet. JMB Builders measures the opening, orders a fiberglass prehung unit with rot-proof jamb bottoms, repairs the sill, and sets it in a sill pan. Priced per door. Send photos and we reply within one business day, or book a free in-home estimate.
- Priced per door, prehung unit included
- Fiberglass slab and rot-proof jamb bottoms at the stoop
- Sill and subfloor repaired as found
Eden Prairie's production two-stories from the late 1970s through the 2000s mostly came with a steel six-panel or half-lite front door on a small concrete stoop, often with no roof over it. Snow drifts against the door, the stoop and walk get salted, and melt splashes the bottom rail every thaw. Steel doors rust from the bottom edge where the skin wraps the wood core, the paint bubbles, and by the time the rust shows through the jamb feet and the threshold behind them have been wet for years.
Replacing the slab alone does not fix it, because the frame is what has rotted. We replace the prehung unit. A fiberglass slab does not rust and does not dent, and the frame can be ordered with composite or rot-proof jamb bottoms so the first few inches above the sill never take water again. Smooth fiberglass paints like the steel did; woodgrain fiberglass stains if you want the look of wood on a west-facing entry that would wreck a real wood door.
The old unit comes out, the subfloor and rim at the sill are checked and the soft wood replaced, a sill pan goes down with flashing tape up the sides and across the head, and the new unit is shimmed plumb, screwed through the hinge jamb into framing, foamed and sealed. The threshold is set tight to the slab and the sweep adjusted. Eden Prairie is a scheduled full-day trip from Zimmerman, so a front door often goes with a patio door or windows. Our job records show one install in Eden Prairie, Sep 2026. Painting is quoted as a separate line — or leave it primed and caulked and paint it yourself.
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
- Door style, material, glass and color
- Hardware finish, or your own handleset and deadbolt
- Photos of the door from the walk, from inside, and a close-up of the rusted bottom and the threshold
What JMB supplies
- Measurement and the prehung order, with options such as Therma-Tru, ProVia or Masonite
- Composite or rot-proof jamb bottoms where the stoop splashes the frame
- Old door, frame and threshold removed and hauled away
- Sill, subfloor and rim rot repaired as found
- Sill pan, flashing tape, low-expansion foam and exterior sealant
- Unit set plumb, screwed into framing, threshold and sweep adjusted
- Brickmould outside, casing inside, 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:
- Smooth or woodgrain fiberglass vs. steel, and the finish
- Single door vs. a unit with a sidelite
- Composite jamb bottoms and a composite brickmould at the stoop
- Rot in the sill, subfloor and rim once the old unit is out
- Exterior trim against vinyl, lap or stone veneer
- Handleset, deadbolt or smart lock
- Painting or staining, quoted as a separate line
Send a photo of the door from the walk showing the stoop, one from inside, and a close-up of the rusted bottom edge and the threshold. Push on the jamb at the floor and tell us if it is soft.
How long it takes
One front door in a sound opening: about a day on site. Subfloor or rim repair at the sill adds a few hours. Lead time depends on the door 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.
Entry Door Replacement in Eden Prairie, MN: questions, answered
Why is my steel front door rusting at the bottom?
The steel skin wraps a wood or foam core and meets at the bottom edge, which sits in melt and salt all winter on an open stoop. Once the paint breaks there, water gets under the skin and rusts it from inside out. Snow piled against the door and salt tracked onto the threshold speed it up. Fiberglass has no skin to rust.
Can I just replace the door slab and keep the frame?
Only if the frame is dry and square, and on a door that has rusted through at the bottom it rarely is. The same water that rusted the slab has been sitting against the jamb feet and threshold. We replace the whole prehung unit so the sill and frame are new, with jamb bottoms that cannot rot.
What are composite jamb bottoms and do I need them?
The bottom several inches of each side jamb are made of a composite that does not absorb water instead of finger-jointed pine. On an entry with no roof and a salted walk they are worth having, because that is exactly where the old frame failed. They paint like wood and you cannot tell from the walk.
Is a permit needed to replace a front door in Eden Prairie?
The City of Eden Prairie building department sets that rule. Changing the size of the opening is the usual trigger in most cities; a same-size swap is often handled differently. We check for your address and pull the permit when one is needed.
Should I add a roof or storm door to protect the new one?
A storm door keeps snow and splash off the slab and is a reasonable add, as long as the entry does not face south or west, where heat builds between the two doors. A small roof over the stoop is a bigger job and a separate quote. A fiberglass door with a sill pan and composite jamb bottoms does not need either to last.
Can the front door go on the same trip as my windows or patio door?
Yes. Eden Prairie is a scheduled full-day trip from Zimmerman, so the door goes on the same order as a patio door or windows in a matching color and is installed during the same visit.
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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