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Door installation in Westgate runs roughly $850 to $4,200 depending on whether you’re replacing a single entry door or reframing a CBS block opening for an impact-rated unit. Most jobs in this part of Palm Beach County involve concrete block construction, which means core-drilling, masonry anchoring, and a different standard of flashing than wood-framed homes elsewhere in Florida. TruePane Windows & Doors has navigated these conditions for years, and our crews work throughout Westgate every week, including the neighborhoods along Okeechobee Boulevard and the side streets off Haverhill Road and Military Trail. Call (386) 251-6745 and you’ll get a live person who can talk through your door, your block walls, and your wind-mitigation report without reading from a script.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Westgate’s Preferred Door Installation Company
Westgate is its own kind of job site. The housing stock here runs older than most of Palm Beach County: single-story CBS ranchers from the 1950s through the early 1970s, many still holding their original jalousie windows and aluminum slider frames. That matters because door installation in these homes is rarely a swap-and-go. The block is hard, the openings are out of square after sixty years of settling, and the original wood jambs have been swelling and shrinking through fifty humid summers. We send background-checked, uniformed technicians who measure every opening twice and know what a Westgate CBS wall does to a standard anchor kit.
Dale Kessler founded this company in 2008 on a rule that’s still taped to the workshop board: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That applies as much to a door slab that binds in August as it does to a louvered glass slat. Our Door Installation team treats every Westgate opening as a structural question first and a hardware question second. Dispatch and scheduling for our local crews are coordinated from our Miami office, and the person who answers your call at (386) 251-6745 is not reading from a call center script. They’re someone who can tell you what a corner-sealed flashing detail looks like on a CBS threshold.
We stand behind it. Every job carries the Done Right Promise and The Keystone Standard: both manufacturer warranty layers registered in writing, durations stated, before the truck leaves your driveway. No paperwork fights on a jammed door, no arguing about who covers what when a threshold leaks in a Westgate downpour. If it’s not done right, we make it right.
Our Door Installation Services in Westgate
Entry & Swing Doors
Entry doors in Westgate take more abuse than most people register: salt-laced humidity off the Atlantic, afternoon convective storms, and sixty-year-old CBS openings that have settled out of square. We install steel and fiberglass entry doors with hot-dip galvanized anchors into the block, not wood screws into a rotting jamb. A new impact-rated entry door on a Westgate rancher typically runs $1,200 to $3,000 installed, depending on slab type, hardware grade, and whether the jamb needs full replacement.
Storm Doors
Storm doors make particular sense in Westgate, where the original front door is often a hollow-core wood unit that soaks up humidity all year and binds against the threshold by August. A quality storm door adds an air gap that keeps that old door from swelling, and when properly flashed and sealed at the corners, it stops wind-driven rain from reaching the main door frame. Storm door installation in Westgate runs $500 to $1,200, and we specify marine-grade seals on every threshold because the standard foam tape fails inside three humid seasons.
Arched & Custom Doors
Some Westgate homes from the late 1950s still have their original arched entryways, and the big-box stores won’t touch those openings. We measure, template, and order custom arched doors built to the exact radius of your block opening, then set them in composite-reinforced frames so they don’t rack as the block settles. Custom arched door work starts around $2,500 and climbs with glass options, finish grade, and whether the opening needs structural remediation.
Bifold & Folding Doors
Bifold and folding patio doors are a growing request in Westgate as homeowners look to open their back rooms to screened patios and carports. The older CBS homes here don’t have wide framed openings, so this work almost always involves cutting and header-installing into block, not just hanging panels. These start around $3,000 for a four-panel unit and we always tie the header into the block with epoxy-set anchors, never lag bolts.
We also install double and French doors, pivot doors, and a range of manufacturer lines, but the three above are what we quote most often in Westgate, because they match the homes that are actually here.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Westgate
TruePane is an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, including, PGT, CGI, and ES Windows. For Westgate specifically, we find ourselves quoting ES Windows and CWS frequently, because both build the impact-rated, corrosion-resistant doors that hold up to Palm Beach County’s humidity without pitting hardware and clouding glass. We also spec ECO Window Systems on custom work. Because our crews are in Westgate every week, we can pull manufacturer parts and schedule warranty service faster than a company that dispatches from a warehouse an hour away.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Westgate Homes
- Corroded masonry anchors on CBS block. Salt air and humidity eat standard zinc anchors within a few years, and the door frame starts pulling off the wall. We specify hot-dip galvanized or stainless anchors and seal every fastener hole with polyurethane caulk before the frame goes in.
- Swollen, racked wood door jambs. Westgate’s wet summers make original 1960s wood jambs soak up water, swell, and twist until the door won’t latch. If the jamb has rot or more than 3/8-inch racking, we replace it with a composite or reinforced unit rather than trying to shim a new door into a failed frame.
- Threshold flashing that lets wind-driven rain into the wall cavity. Most installers skip bottom-corner sealing because it’s invisible once the trim goes on. In Westgate’s afternoon downpours, that leak shows up within one season. We always lap the flashing and seal the bottom corners with marine-grade sealant.
- Impact doors set into jalousie-era openings without reframing. The original fenestration on these houses was never designed for a 150 mph wind rating. We frequently find brand-new impact doors screwed into old aluminum channels, which defeats the rating and fails inspection. The right fix is a full frame-out, not a panel swap.
Pricing for Door Installation in Westgate, FL
A typical entry door replacement in Westgate runs $1,200 to $3,000 for a standard impact-rated steel or fiberglass unit set into an existing CBS opening. Storm doors land between $500 and $1,200. Bifold or folding patio doors start around $3,000 and go up from there, while fully custom arched doors begin near $2,500. The difference between a mid-range quote and a high one here usually comes down to three things: whether the jamb needs full replacement, whether the block opening requires core-drilling and epoxy anchors, and whether the project must tie into a wind-mitigation retrofit for insurance purposes. Those are not optional upsells. They are what the house and the Florida Building Code require. Call (386) 251-6745 for a free, written line-item estimate. We put the numbers on paper and you keep the copy.
We Also Serve Cities Near Westgate
We work throughout the neighboring communities in Palm Beach County, including Royal Palm Beach, Loxahatchee Groves, Westlake, and Palm Springs. Many of our Westgate customers find us because work on a neighbor’s home in one of these areas sent them looking for the same crew. Same standards, same Door Installation in Westgate level of care, same warranty on every job.
Serving Westgate, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Westgate 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 Westgate
You can, but most homeowners in Westgate choose not to once they understand what the wind-mitigation inspector sees. Those original jalousie windows fail Palm Beach County’s 140-150 mph wind-load requirements, which is why many local policyholders are getting non-renewal notices. We routinely flag the jalousie openings during a door quote and document them for the wind-mitigation report, because bundling the door replacement with a window retrofit is often the difference between keeping your insurance and losing it. If you want to phase the work, the door can be done first, but we’ll note the jalousies on the report so you’re not surprised later. Call (386) 251-6745 and we’ll walk your property before you sign anything.
Yes, in most cases. Spalling is common on older CBS walls because the original builders used carbon-steel reinforcement too close to the surface, and once salt air gets in, the rust expands and pops the face of the block. We remove the loose concrete, treat the exposed steel with a rust converter, patch with a polymer-modified repair mortar, and then set the new door with galvanized anchors embedded in epoxy. The repair adds a few hundred dollars to the job, but skipping it means the new door frame is anchored into crumbling substrate. The estimate will show that line item clearly.
Not for impact protection, no. A properly installed impact-rated entry door meets the wind-load code on its own. But in Westgate, a storm door still earns its keep for two reasons: it shields the primary door from direct rain and salt-laced sun, and it provides cross-ventilation when the main door is open, which matters in a 1950s rancher without central air. Whether it makes sense in your home depends on the exposure and the condition of your primary door. We’ll give you an honest answer, even if the answer is “you don’t need it.”
It’s both, usually. In Westgate’s humidity, the original pine jambs from the 1960s absorb moisture, swell against the block opening, and throw the strike plate out of alignment. The slab itself may be fine. If the jamb has less than about 1/4-inch of movement, we can reset the hinges, plane the frame slightly, and reinstall the weatherstripping. More than that, or any visible rot at the base, means a jamb replacement. We typically replace with a composite jamb that doesn’t absorb moisture the way wood does. The price difference between a latch adjustment and a full jamb replacement is significant, so we’ll show you both options and the condition of the existing wood before you commit.
In Westgate, the coastal-spec door runs 20 to 40 percent more than an inland-spec job, and the gap is not about showroom price. It’s about what you don’t see: hot-dip galvanized or stainless anchors instead of zinc, marine-grade flashing and corner seals instead of builder tape, composite or reinforced jambs instead of raw wood, and sometimes epoxy-set lags into the block. The cheap spec looks fine on day one. Within a decade in this climate, the zinc anchors are crusted, the jamb has swelled and racked, and the threshold is leaking into the wall cavity. You pay the difference twice. We quote both options on paper and tell you which one we’d put in our own mother’s house. For a line-item estimate in Westgate, call (386) 251-6745. Estimates are free, and a live person answers the phone every time.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Westgate and surrounding Palm Beach County communities.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose TruePane 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.