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Therma-Tru Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing in Royal Palm Beach: What to Know First

Therma-Tru shingle, tile, and metal roofing replacement in Royal Palm Beach runs $14,500 to $38,000 depending on roof complexity, pitch, and material selection. Most full replacements take 5 to 9 working days once materials land. We are an independent Therma-Tru service provider, not a manufacturer-authorized dealer, which means we recommend the right material for your roof rather than whatever carries the biggest margin.

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This page is written for Royal Palm Beach homeowners who own a Therma-Tru entry door or exterior product and are now dealing with a roof that needs shingle, tile, or metal work. If your Therma-Tru door is performing fine but your roof is not, that roof still has to come off and go back on around the door framing. That intersection matters more than most people realize. Call (386) 251-6745 for a free estimate.

How Therma-Tru Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

Therma-Tru builds entry doors, not roofing. So the failure modes we see on Royal Palm Beach homes are not about the roofing material itself. They are about what a bad roof install or long-neglected roof does to the Therma-Tru door below it. Here is what we run into most often:

• Therma-Tru Classic-Craft and Fiber-Classic doors with water intrusion from failed roof flashing. The door slab itself is fiberglass and will not rot the way wood does. But the rough opening around it will. When a shingle roof is torn off and re-flashed by a roofer who does not reset the door pan flashing, water tracks down the jamb and into the subfloor. The homeowner sees a door that binds in July and blames the door. We pull the interior trim, inspect the sill pan, and reset the flashing at the door-roof intersection. In Royal Palm Beach, a west-facing wall with direct afternoon storm exposure and a roof above it is a standing invitation for this exact problem.
• Therma-Tru Smooth-Star doors with warp at the bottom rail after a tile roof replacement. Tile roofs are heavy. The tear-off and re-set changes the load path above door openings, and on some Royal Palm Beach homes with truss uplift, the header settles a fraction of an inch. A Smooth-Star slab will telegraph that movement as a gap at the latch side top corner, or a bottom rail that catches the sweep. The door gets blamed. The roof settlement is the root cause. We shim, reset hinges, and re-square the jamb before we touch anything cosmetic.
• Therma-Tru Slim-Line frames with corroded bottom hinge screws after metal roof installation. Metal roofs near the coast pick up salt in the air, and Royal Palm Beach gets enough marine influence that dissimilar metal contact becomes a problem. When a metal roof is installed with exposed fasteners near a door opening, runoff carries fine metal particulate down onto the hinge hardware. We see rust at the bottom hinge pin before anywhere else. The fix is replacing the hinge leaves with stainless and adding a drip edge diverter at the roof eave above the door. Therma-Tru will not tell you this because they do not inspect what the roof does to their door. We do.
• Weatherstripping compression on Therma-Tru doors after shingle reroof shifts the head jamb. On older Royal Palm Beach homes with original framing, a full shingle reroof means walking crews, loaded ridge vents, and thousands of pounds of material staged on the roof deck. The header above a Therma-Tru door can deflect a quarter inch under that load. That is enough to flatten the weatherstrip at the top and open an air gap. The door looks fine. It does not seal. Homeowners notice the AC bill first. We re-align the head jamb in place and replace the compression seal with a fresh OEM piece so the door actually stops air again.
• Paint and finish failure on Therma-Tru door edges where roof flashing was never re-painted or re-sealed after a tile job. Tile crews cut tile near door openings and the dust coats everything. If the flashing above the door frame is not re-primed and painted after roofing, the exposed metal sweats and streaks the door jamb with rust-colored runoff. The Therma-Tru warranty does not cover environmental contamination, so this falls to the homeowner. We clean, re-prime, and repaint the affected surfaces, then re-caulk the flashing seam so it does not happen again.

Our Therma-Tru Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing Process

Dale Kessler grew up off Crestwood Boulevard in Royal Palm Beach and has spent roughly three decades measuring, setting, and sealing windows and doors across Palm Beach County. He learned the trade at Palm Beach State College, where the building construction program drilled framing tolerances and Florida building code into him, and he still references those habits on every job. When a Royal Palm Beach homeowner calls us about a Therma-Tru door and the roof above it, here is how the work goes:

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   We inspect the door first, then the roof. The door tells us whether the problem is flashing, header movement, or seal failure. We measure the door slab, check reveal gaps, and run a moisture meter along the jamb interior before we walk up the ladder.
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   We document the roof-to-door intersection. Photos, measurements, and notes about flashing condition, step flashing count, and counterflashing depth. If the roof is tile, we note whether the tile over the door opening is cracked or shifted.
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   We discuss parts options with you in plain language. OEM Therma-Tru weatherstrip, hinge hardware, and threshold components where it matters for fit and warranty. Quality aftermarket flashing and sealants where OEM does not offer a better product. We tell you which is which and why, on paper, before we order anything.
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   The roof work gets done first when the roof is the root cause. Shingle replacement, tile re-setting, or metal panel repair goes in before we touch the door. We re-flash the roof-to-wall junction and install a drip diverter if the roof pitch sends water toward the door opening.
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   Then the door gets set right. Re-squaring the jamb, resetting the sill pan, replacing the seals, adjusting hinges, and re-anchoring hardware as needed. Every opening gets measured twice. Dale’s rule from the whiteboard governs the whole thing: if the pane is not true, the job is not done.
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   We test under load and register what we can. We run water over the flashing with a hose, cycle the door a dozen times, and confirm the seal compresses evenly across the top rail. Both manufacturer warranty layers are registered in writing before the truck leaves the driveway, per The Keystone Standard.

What Therma-Tru Shingle, Tile & Metal Roofing Costs in Royal Palm Beach

Honest numbers, because pricing that hides is pricing that hurts later. In Royal Palm Beach, here is what we typically see:

• Full shingle roof replacement around a Therma-Tru door opening: $14,500 to $22,000 for an average single-story home, depending on square footage and tear-off conditions.
• Tile roof re-set and re-flash above a Therma-Tru door: $2,800 to $6,400 when the roof structure is sound but the tile and flashing need work.
• Metal roof panel replacement or repair above a door: $1,900 to $4,600 for panel replacement, flashing rework, and drip edge correction.
• Therma-Tru door re-set and full weatherseal replacement after roofing work: $850 to $1,900 including the moisture inspection, jamb re-squaring, and OEM weatherstrip.

What moves the price is roof pitch, number of roof-to-wall intersections, whether the decking needs replacement, and whether the Therma-Tru door has pre-existing frame damage from water. We give fixed, line-item quotes before we start, and the number on the quote is the number on the bill. Call (386) 251-6745 for a free estimate, and we will put the numbers in writing.

Why Royal Palm Beach Homeowners Call TruePane Windows & Doors for Therma-Tru Work

We have served Royal Palm Beach and the surrounding communities since 2008, and we are still here because we do what we say we will do. The Done Right Promise means that if something is not right after the job, we come back and make it right with no paperwork fight and no fine print. The Keystone Standard goes further: both manufacturer warranty layers are registered in writing, with durations stated, before the truck leaves your driveway. If the pane is not true, the job is not done.

Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and trained to work in your home the way they would work in their own mother’s house. When a Therma-Tru door needs work alongside a roof repair, we handle the door, the flashing, and the integration. And if the opening calls for something different, we are authorized installers for more than a dozen lines including PGT, CGI, CWS, and ES Windows, so we can quote you side by side on paper with no sales pressure.

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