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Door installation in South Palm Beach runs $900 to $5,000 for most condo and single-family projects, depending on whether you’re replacing a standard entry, upgrading to impact-rated glass, or swapping a corroded slider in one of the town’s oceanfront towers. We’re Winslow Windows & Doors, and we’ve spent years working the condo boards, architectural committees, and barrier-island buildings along South Military Trail and Lantana Road. Ed Winslow’s name is on the door, and on every job we do. Call (561) 782-7525 for a free in-home measure and a written line-item quote.
Why Winslow Windows & Doors Is South Palm Beach’s Preferred Door Installation Company
South Palm Beach is different from everywhere else in the county. It’s a narrow Atlantic barrier island with the ocean on one side and the Intracoastal on the other, which means every door we install here faces salt spray from two directions at once. Standard aluminum frames and plated hardware that survive fine in West Palm Beach will show pitting and seizure here within two to three years. We know that, because we’ve pulled failed hardware out of doors in this town that were installed elsewhere by companies that didn’t know the difference.
Homeowners and condo boards in South Palm Beach have called us because we answer the phone at any hour, not a voicemail loop. A live person picks up, every time. We’re locally owned and owner-operated, founded in 2011, with a published address and license number. Every technician who arrives at your building is background-checked and in uniform. Before we ever pull a frame, we’ve already handled the Door Installation details that stop most jobs in this town cold: impact-glazing compliance, Florida Product Approval paperwork, and condo association architectural review.
Our South Palm Beach customers keep us around because we don’t hand you a ticket number. We hand you Ed’s word: the Done Right Promise. If it isn’t done right, we make it right.
Our Door Installation Services in South Palm Beach
Entry Doors
A new entry door in South Palm Beach starts around $1,200 and runs to $3,500 installed, depending on material and impact rating. Most of the buildings here along Lake Worth Road and the ocean side were built between 1960 and 1985, so we’re usually pulling originals with paper-thin insulation and weatherstripping that crumbled a decade ago. We specify powder-coated steel or fiberglass with stainless hinges, because the salt air will eat a standard hinge finish in under three years.
Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors
Here’s the thing about South Palm Beach: nearly every job we quote here needs impact-rated glass and a rated frame. The town sits squarely inside Palm Beach County’s wind-borne debris region, and the dual salt exposure means the frame, hinges, and threshold all need marine-grade or stainless components. A hurricane-proof front door in South Palm Beach typically runs $2,500 to $5,000, including the Florida Product Approval documentation your condo board will demand. We handle that paperwork before the old door is pulled.
French & Double Doors
French and double door replacements in South Palm Beach run $2,800 to $5,000 for a standard opening, more if the opening is oversized or the threshold needs to be re-sealed against wind-driven rain. In mid-rise condos here, we often see original sliders and single-pane French doors that leak air and let salt mist into the unit every time the sea breeze picks up. We replace them with PGT, CGI, or CWS impact-rated units with stainless steel rollers and fully sealed threshold pans.
Replacement Doors
Replacement door work in South Palm Beach is more than a swap. In the 1960s and 1970s towers, the jambs are frequently pitted from forty years of Atlantic spray on one side and Intracoastal air on the other. A simple replacement door can become a jamb rebuild if the structure has been compromised. Entry or exterior replacement doors generally run $900 to $2,200 in South Palm Beach when the jamb is sound. Once we inspect, you get a written quote with the line items spelled out, so there are no surprises on the invoice.
Storm & Exterior Doors
Storm doors in South Palm Beach do double duty: they shed the daily salt mist and add a layer of wind resistance during tropical weather. They run $700 to $1,800 installed. We fit storm and exterior doors with stainless or powder-coated hardware only, because standard plated hardware seizes shut on this island faster than anywhere else on our route. If your building’s architectural committee requires a specific finish, we bring samples to the board before you commit.
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Trusted Brands We Service in South Palm Beach
We install impact-rated doors from PGT, CGI, CWS, and several other premium manufacturers. We’re direct authorized installers, not resellers working through a middleman, which means we can get replacement rollers, thresholds, and seals for South Palm Beach customers fast, often without a return trip. When we specify a PGT door for a condo on the ocean side, we match it with stainless hardware and a marine-grade finish. That is the difference between a door that lasts fifteen years on this barrier island and one that needs a hardware replacement in three.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in South Palm Beach Homes
- Dual salt-air corrosion on aluminum frames and hardware. South Palm Beach is one of the only municipalities in Palm Beach County where a door fights Atlantic spray on one side and brackish Intracoastal air on the other. Any jamb, hinge, or threshold that isn’t stainless or marine-grade will show pitting within two to three years. We see this constantly in the 1960s towers along the ocean. The fix is a full frame replacement with a powder-coated or marine-grade unit, not a hardware-only patch.
- Seized or snapped door hardware. Plated hinges and locksets fail early here because the salt air gets into the plating and corrodes the base metal underneath. A lock that turns fine today can snap a key off inside the cylinder in eighteen months. We fit stainless steel latching hardware on every exterior door in South Palm Beach, no exceptions.
- Condo association rejections over paperwork. South Palm Beach’s condo boards routinely require Florida Product Approval numbers, color samples, and product specs before any door swap can start. Contractors who show up without that packet get turned away. We prepare the architectural review submission before the old door is pulled. It is the only way to work efficiently in an all-condo town like this.
- Non-compliant original sliders and single-panes. Most buildings here went up between 1960 and 1985, and a lot of the original single-pane aluminum sliders are still in the openings. They don’t meet current wind-borne debris standards, and they leak salt mist into the unit. We replace them with impact-rated PGT or CGI sliders that pass wind load ratings for the exact floor and exposure of your unit.
Pricing for Door Installation in South Palm Beach, FL
Entry door installation in South Palm Beach generally falls between $1,200 and $3,500. Storm doors run $700 to $1,800. Impact-rated hurricane doors with rated frames and marine-grade hardware run $2,500 to $5,000, and oversized French or double door projects top out around $5,000. The price moves on four things: the number of openings, the wind zone and floor height of your unit, the frame material, and whether the original jamb has to be rebuilt. Call (561) 782-7525 for a free in-home measure and a written, line-item quote. No change orders. No vague estimates.
What Door Installation Costs in South Palm Beach
For a clearer picture: impact-rated sliding glass doors in South Palm Beach condos run $2,500 to $5,000 per opening. A high-quality impact entry door with stainless hardware is typically $2,500 to $4,000 installed and permitted. Large or custom openings go to $5,000. Whole-unit or multi-door condo packages in the town’s towers run $8,000 to $25,000 or more depending on the number of openings and the floor height. Custom fabrication for unusual openings runs four to six weeks. Standard units can be installed in as fast as a single day once your units arrive. The free measure and written quote costs you nothing and locks in the number.
Florida Pays You Back
A door replacement in South Palm Beach can qualify for real money back. The My Safe Florida Home program offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, which commonly cover doors and other impact-rated openings in the wind-borne debris region. Florida also offers a sales-tax exemption on impact-resistant doors and windows. At the federal level, the 25C energy credit covers 30% of product cost on qualifying energy-efficient units, up to $600 per year. And after a wind-mitigation inspection, which usually costs $75 to $150, many carriers credit roughly 25% on the windstorm portion of your premium for impact-rated openings. Every carrier and program sets its own final numbers, so we’ll walk you through the paperwork but we won’t invent a check amount for you.
One comparison worth making: impact-rated doors versus hurricane shutters. Shutters protect the opening during a storm, but you have to haul them out, mount them, and store them. In a South Palm Beach condo with a narrow balcony or no storage, that is a genuine problem. An impact-rated door is permanent protection. It is always in place. You don’t do anything when the watch goes up, and it passes the HOA’s architectural review once as a finished product, not every storm season.
Why Salt Air Decides Your Door Materials, Not Your Schedule
South Palm Beach sits on a narrow Atlantic barrier island with ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west. That means window and door installations face aggressive salt-spray corrosion from both sides simultaneously. This dual-exposure condition accelerates frame oxidation and hardware failure far faster than any mainland Palm Beach County community. The result: a door specified for inland Florida will show pitting on its aluminum frame within two to three years on this island. Hinges squeak, then seize. Thresholds corrode. Locks snap. The cheap spec costs more within a decade, because you pay for the door twice.
What we specify instead: stainless or hot-dip galvanized hardware, marine-grade finishes, powder-coated frames, and fully sealed threshold pans. The price gap between a coastal-spec door and an inland-spec door is typically $300 to $800 per opening in South Palm Beach. That is real money. But when a standard hinge seizes and snaps a key off in the lock at 11 p.m. during a rain squall, the coastal-spec door starts to look like the cheaper one. Nearly every job here is inside a 1960s to 1980s high-rise condo, so every replacement also requires condo association architectural approval and compliance with Florida Product Approval impact-glazing standards before a single frame is pulled.
We replaced a corroded original slider on Lake Avenue in a 1970s condo where the aluminum jamb had become so pitted from the dual salt exposure that the sash would no longer seat squarely. Our crew specified a PGT impact-rated door with stainless steel rollers and a powder-coated frame, plus a fully sealed threshold pan. We also handled the condo association review by submitting Florida Product Approval numbers before the old frame was even pulled. That’s how the work gets done in South Palm Beach: paperwork first, pull the frame second.
We Also Serve Cities Near South Palm Beach
Our crews serve South Palm Beach locally and also work throughout the surrounding area, including Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, and Royal Palm Beach. If you live across the bridge on the mainland, the same marine-grade, impact-rated specifications apply wherever salt air and wind load demand it.
Serving South Palm Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the South Palm Beach area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Door Installation in South Palm Beach
A South Palm Beach door needs a marine-grade finish because the town sits on a narrow barrier island with Atlantic spray on one side and brackish Intracoastal air on the other, so the frame and hardware face salt corrosion from two directions at once. Mainland cities across Lake Worth get one-sided exposure at most. We fit stainless or powder-coated hardware, marine finishes, and sealed threshold pans on every exterior door in South Palm Beach to keep that dual-salt environment from destroying the opening in under three years. Call (561) 782-7525 and we’ll spec your door for the island, not for the county average.
Yes. South Palm Beach is almost entirely mid-rise and high-rise condominium buildings, and those associations’ architectural committees routinely require product specs, color samples, and Florida Product Approval numbers before any door swap starts. Skipping that step gets the project rejected and your deposit held up. We prepare the architectural review package before the old door is pulled, so your board gets what it needs the first time. Call (561) 782-7525 and we’ll handle the paperwork with you.
The most common failure we see is pitting on original aluminum frames and seizure of plated hardware from decades of dual salt exposure. Frames are often so corroded that the sash no longer seats squarely, and locks snap keys off inside the cylinder. We fix it by replacing the entire unit with an impact-rated, marine-grade door with stainless hardware, not by patching a corroded jamb. Call (561) 782-7525 and we’ll inspect your opening for free.
In many cases yes, depending on your association’s governing documents and whether the door is classified as a common element. Florida statute and most condo declarations assign responsibility for exterior openings, including doors, to the association or to the owner based on the building’s specific governing documents. We’ve worked with boards all over South Palm Beach and can help you determine what your association is obligated to cover before you sign anything. Call (561) 782-7525 and we’ll walk you through it.
Usually not. In South Palm Beach’s barrier-island condos, the existing frames are often aluminum with decades of salt corrosion. Impact-rated glazing requires a rated frame that carries a Florida Product Approval number, and a pitted 1970s jamb will not pass a wind load inspection. We replace the frame and jamb together as a rated system, which is the only compliant way to install impact glazing in this town. Call (561) 782-7525 for a free measure and we’ll tell you exactly what your opening needs.
Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving South Palm Beach since 2011.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose Winslow Windows & Doors
Impact systems engineered to design pressures up to +/-100, matched to your wind zone - your openings hold when the storm arrives.
Low-E insulated impact glass from our manufacturer lines commonly cuts monthly cooling bills 20-30%.
Laminated impact glass shuts out up to 40% of outside noise - traffic, neighbors, weather.
Monitoring services run $30-90 a month. Laminated impact glass resists forced entry around the clock, with no subscription.
Florida homeowners average around 25% savings on the windstorm portion of their policy after protecting every opening - some homes qualify for more.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.