Door Installation in Kendall - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Door Installation Across Kendall

Door installation in Kendall, FL typically runs between $1,200 and $4,800 depending on whether you’re swapping a standard entry door or installing a full Miami-Dade NOA-certified impact system. Most replacements take one to two days once the slab or pre-hung unit arrives, and we coordinate the required permit and inspection so the job closes clean. If you’re in Kendall and need a straight answer on what your door will cost and what the inspector will flag, call (850) 930-1813 and Ed Winslow’s team will walk you through it.

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We know Kendall because we work here constantly. The aging CBS tract homes, the salt-laden air pushing inland from Biscayne Bay, and Miami-Dade’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone all shape what a door replacement actually involves here. This is not a market where you can order any off-the-shelf door and call it done.

Why Winslow Windows & Doors Is Kendall’s Preferred Door Installation Company

Ed Winslow founded this company in 2011, and his name is on every job we complete in Kendall. That’s not marketing language. When you call our office at (850) 930-1813, a live person picks up, day or night. You won’t reach a call center, and you won’t sit through a voicemail loop. You’ll speak with someone who knows the difference between what a door needs to pass inspection in Kendall versus what it takes just a few miles north in Broward.

Our Kendall customers consistently point to two things in their feedback: the written line-item quote they received before signing anything, and the fact that our technicians arrived in uniform, background-checked, and on schedule. Every technician who walks up to a Kendall front door is an employee we’ve vetted, not a subcontractor you’ve never heard of.

For readers looking at Door Installation across the Miami metro, know this: we don’t send a salesperson with a binder of glossy brochures. We send a trained installer who looks at your rough opening, your existing flashing, your jamb condition, and the wind zone your specific Kendall block sits in. Then we price it. Once. Upfront.

We’re authorized installers for PGT, CGI, Therma-Tru, CWS, ES Windows, and Mr-Glass, among others. That matters in Kendall because many of the doors we install are manufactured to order for a specific opening size and a specific design pressure rating. There is no warehouse of generic doors that fits every home in this part of Miami-Dade.

Our Door Installation Services in Kendall

Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors

Every hurricane-proof entry door we quote in Kendall carries a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, because that is what the building code in this county demands. A door with only Florida Product Approval will not pass a Kendall inspection. We’ve had to redo jobs for homeowners who originally hired contractors from outside Miami-Dade and got red-tagged for exactly this reason. We size the door, we pull the permit, and we schedule the inspection.

Replacement Doors

Replacing a 30-year-old door in a Kendall CBS home usually means more than unscrewing hinges. The original jamb anchors have spent decades in salt-laden air, and we regularly find corroded fasteners that would fail under a serious wind event. On pre-1992 homes especially, we check the header, the jamb, and the rough opening before we install anything. A new impact door in an undersized or corroded opening is not an upgrade. It’s a future failure.

French & Double Doors

French and double doors in Kendall come with a specific set of code requirements because each active leaf is treated as its own opening in wind-mitigation terms. The hinges, the astragal, the flush bolts on the inactive leaf, the multi-point locking system. All of it has to work together and carry a Miami-Dade NOA as a complete assembly. We’ve installed these across The Hammocks, Country Walk, and West Kendall, and the installation approach changes depending on whether the opening faces east into prevailing wind or sits protected behind a courtyard.

Storm & Exterior Doors

A storm door in Kendall is a second layer, not a substitute for an impact-rated primary door. Some homeowners install a decorative storm door over a non-rated entry and believe they’ve improved wind protection. They haven’t. The inspector won’t credit it, and the insurance company won’t either. We’ll tell you plainly what a storm door will and won’t do for your house before you spend a dollar.

Trusted Brands We Service in Kendall

We install a select range of products we know will hold up in Kendall’s environment. PGT and CGI impact doors are the backbone of what we put into Miami-Dade HVHZ openings because their NOA paperwork is complete and their hardware holds up to salt air better than cheap imports. Therma-Tru gives us solid options for non-HVHZ interior and rear applications. CWS, ES Windows, and Mr-Glass come into play when a homeowner wants wider stile profiles or specific glass packages. We don’t install every brand on the market because we’ve learned the hard way which ones generate warranty headaches in this climate. We stock replacement hardware and weatherstripping for the brands we carry, which means Kendall homeowners wait days for parts, not weeks.

Common Door Installation Problems We See in Kendall Homes

• Miami-Dade NOA gaps: Contractors from Broward County routinely quote doors with Florida Product Approval and then discover the Kendall inspector won’t accept them. We see this at least monthly. If your quote doesn’t specify a Miami-Dade NOA product, assume the job won’t pass.
• Corroded jamb anchors in CBS walls: Salt air travels miles inland from Biscayne Bay and Florida Bay. On pre-1992 homes, the original galvanized anchors at the jamb are frequently rusted through. A new impact door bolted to rotten anchors pulls loose under load.
• Undersized headers on original openings: Homes built before the post-Andrew code overhaul often have headers sized for a non-rated hollow-core door. An impact-rated entry system is considerably heavier, and it requires a properly sized header. Skipping this step leads to sag and cracked stucco above the door within a few years.
• Jalousie doors and side panels: Some Kendall homes still have original louvered jalousie doors or sidelights. These cannot be retrofitted to meet NOA impact standards under any circumstance. When an insurer flags them on a wind-mitigation inspection, the fix is full removal and replacement, not repair.

Pricing for Door Installation in Kendall, FL

What Door Installation Costs in Kendall

Here’s the honest math. Impact windows in Kendall generally run $800 to $1,500 per window installed. A single impact door with NOA lands in the $2,500 to $5,500 range. Large or custom openings, including French doors with sidelights, sit between $4,000 and $9,000. Whole-home door and window packages across a typical three-bedroom Kendall CBS house frequently land between $8,000 and $25,000 or more depending on opening count and product selection. The variables that move your price are the number of openings, the wind zone your block sits in, the floor height, and what the original framing looks like once we remove the trim. That last one is the wild card. We write allowances into every Kendall contract so you’re not surprised.

Florida Pays You Back

There is real money available to Kendall homeowners who upgrade to impact-rated doors and windows, but the programs are not automatic rebates. The My Safe Florida Home program offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, and Kendall’s HVHZ homes typically score well in the initial inspection. Florida currently exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax. At the federal level, the 25C energy credit allows 30% of product cost, up to $600 per year, on qualifying exterior door units. And after a wind-mitigation inspection, which costs between $75 and $150, many Kendall homeowners see their windstorm premium drop by a meaningful margin, often around 25% on the windstorm portion. Your insurer sets the final number, not us. We’ll point you to the programs and let your carrier confirm the savings.

We Also Serve Cities Near Kendall

Our Kendall crews regularly work in South Miami, Doral, and Hialeah, and we extend into Miami proper as needed. The code requirements change once you cross the Broward line, so we keep our Kendall team focused on Miami-Dade projects where the NOA standard applies. If you’re in any of these nearby communities, the same phone number reaches the same live person: (850) 930-1813.

What a Kendall Door Replacement Permit Will Uncover

Here’s the part nobody tells you before you open up a pre-1992 Kendall wall. The permit process for a door replacement in Miami-Dade triggers code review, and the inspector will look at what’s behind the trim. On homes built between roughly 1968 and 1992, we routinely find three things: degraded wiring that no longer meets current insulation standards, undersized headers that were acceptable under the old code but aren’t now, and failed waterproofing that has allowed decades of humid, salty air to corrode the rough opening. This is the single biggest reason a Kendall door replacement quote moves once work begins.

How we handle it: inspection first. Before we bid, we look at the opening, we look at what’s visible, and we write allowances into the contract for the things we can reasonably anticipate: jamb rebuild, header replacement, reflashing, and rewiring behind the trim. Then, if we open the wall and find something beyond the allowance, we stop. You get a written change order with a specific price. You approve it in writing. Then we touch the frame. No surprise invoices. No “while we’re in there” add-ons. Ed’s name is on the contract, and Ed doesn’t do vague pricing.

Kendall sits entirely within the HVHZ, which means every door we install here must carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance. This is a more stringent certification than Florida Product Approval, and it applies even to non-impact doors in some applications because the county treats every opening in the building envelope as part of the wind-resistance system. Your cousin in Broward might have replaced a door with a Florida Product Approval unit and passed inspection. That same door gets red-tagged here. Before you sign any contract for door installation in Kendall, confirm the product carries a Miami-Dade NOA for your specific configuration. We will show you the paperwork before we order the slab.

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Call Ed’s Team in Kendall

You will get a live person on the phone when you call (850) 930-1813. You’ll get a written quote, a published license number, and Ed Winslow’s name on the contract. You get a Done Right Promise, which means if we didn’t do it right, we make it right. That promise has no expiration date because Ed plans to be accountable for every door we hang in Kendall for the rest of his life. If you’re replacing one door or every opening in your home, start with a phone call. It costs you nothing, and you’ll know exactly what you’re dealing with before anyone touches your wall.

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Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving Kendall since 2011.