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

Fast, Reliable Door Installation Across Kendall

Door installation in Kendall comes with a set of rules you won’t find anywhere else in the country. Because Kendall sits entirely inside Miami-Dade County’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone, every replacement door we install must carry an active Miami-Dade County Notice of Acceptance (NOA) and be anchored to wind-load specs that exceed Florida’s statewide code. We know that process cold because we live here. Call Winslow Windows & Doors at (727) 620-6983 and you’ll reach a live person who can walk you through what your specific Kendall home actually needs, from the first measure to the final county inspection.

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

Ed Winslow put his name on this business in 2011, and that name rides on every truck we send into Kendall. We’re not a franchise with a ticket number. We’re an owner-operated shop with a published address, a real license number, and technicians who arrive in uniform with background checks already on file. When a Kendall homeowner calls at 2 a.m. before a storm, someone picks up. No voicemail loop, no call center.

Our Door Installation team has worked on homes from Kendale Lakes to Kendall West to the subdivisions off SW 88th Street. We know what the 1970s CBS ranch on your block looks like behind the drywall because we’ve opened enough of them. That experience means our quotes account for what we will actually find, not the best-case scenario a big-box installer might assume.

The Done Right Promise applies on every door we hang in Kendall. If it’s not done right, we make it right. That’s a lasting standard, and it’s why homeowners across Kendall call us first when they’re ready to stop patching old doors and start replacing them properly.

Our Door Installation Services in Kendall

Entry Doors

Your front door takes the brunt of Kendall’s afternoon sun and every storm that tracks across the Everglades. We install solid-core and steel entry doors built to hold an HVHZ anchor pattern, with frames we order to match your jamb depth rather than shimming what’s already there. We also offer Kendall Custom & Geometric Windows to complement your new entry system. A new entry door on a Kendall CBS home usually means pulling the old buck frame and starting the rough opening fresh, especially if the original door dates to the 1980s or earlier.

Entry door replacement in Kendall typically runs $1,800 to $4,500 installed, depending on the door slab, sidelites, and whether we’re dealing with a standard single or a double opening.

Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors

This is the service Kendall homeowners ask about most. An impact-rated front door isn’t the same as a standard exterior door with a storm panel bolted on the outside. The entire system, slab, frame, hinges, and anchoring, must be approved as a unit under a Miami-Dade NOA. We install impact doors from PGT and Therma-Tru, both of which maintain active NOAs for multiple configurations, including outswing and inswing models. County inspectors in unincorporated Kendall will check the NOA number and edition date on-site. We hand you the paperwork before they ask for it.

French & Double Doors

French doors look great on a Kendall ranch, but they are also the largest unprotected opening on the rear elevation of most homes. Replacing them means addressing the structural header that spans the opening. On older Kendall homes, that header is frequently undersized or compromised by decades of moisture intrusion. We inspect it on every French door job, and we write an allowance into the contract so you know the number before we open anything. Expect a quality French door replacement in Kendall to land between $3,500 and $7,500 depending on width and impact rating.

Replacement Doors

Most Kendall replacement door work happens because the original door has failed, not because someone is remodeling for aesthetics. Warped slabs, rotted jambs, failed weatherstripping, and hinges pulling out of the block are the normal findings. We remove everything down to the rough opening, correct what we find, and set the new door to current HVHZ anchoring requirements. You get a written line-item quote before work starts, and the price doesn’t move unless we both sign off on a change.

Trusted Brands We Service in Kendall

We install doors from Therma-Tru, PGT, CGI, all with active Miami-Dade NOAs we trust for Kendall’s wind zone. Because we stock common hardware and replacement components locally, a damaged threshold or failing hinge on a door we installed can often be addressed the same week without waiting on a factory shipment. If someone put in a Mr-Glass or ECO Window Systems door years ago and it’s now off-square or drafty, we service those too, and we’ll tell you honestly whether repair or replacement makes more financial sense.

Common Door Installation Problems We See in Kendall Homes

• Contractor used only a Florida Product Approval, not a Miami-Dade NOA. Kendall sits under county jurisdiction, and the inspector will reject a door that doesn’t carry an active NOA for the specific opening. The homeowner is left with an unpermitted opening and a door that may not be re-sellable with the house.
• Original 1970s or 1980s jamb reused under an impact door. Old CBS jamb anchors were never designed for current HVHZ pullout loads. We’ve seen frames fail at the hinge points during the first serious tropical storm because someone saved a few hundred dollars by not replacing the buck.
• Hidden rot and outdated wiring behind the rough opening. Kendall’s humidity and the age of the housing stock mean a door job sometimes turns up wet framing, failed waterproofing, or even aluminum wiring running through a header. If the contractor proceeds without a written change order, the permit can go sideways and you’re stuck with a stop-work tag.
• Doors surfaced rather than replaced on an older jamb. Some crews will hang a new slab on an old jamb and call it a day. That door will never sit square, never seal against Kendall’s humidity, and never meet the anchoring spec the county requires. It’s a waste of money, and we end up pulling it out and doing the job correctly.

Pricing for Door Installation in Kendall, FL

What Door Installation Costs in Kendall

For an impact-rated single door, Kendall prices typically run $1,800 to $4,500 installed. Add sidelites or an unusual rough opening and the number climbs to $5,000 or more. Custom and oversized openings, common on 1990s two-story homes in the Country Walk area, can land in the $6,000 to $10,000 range once structural work and finishing are counted. Whole-home door packages on a four-bedroom Kendall home, front entry, rear French doors, garage service door, and laundry side door, typically fall between $10,000 and $20,000. We can also bundle in Impact Garage Doors - Kendall for complete storm protection. What moves the number in Kendall: the wind zone, the floor height of the opening, whether the existing jamb is reusable (usually not), the impact rating you select, and what we find once walls are opened. We always complete a free in-home measure and give you a written quote on the spot. Call (727) 620-6983 to schedule it.

Florida Pays You Back

Kendall homeowners have real money on the table when they upgrade to impact-rated doors. The My Safe Florida Home program offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation improvements, and impact windows and doors are exactly the kind of upgrade the program was built for. Florida currently exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax, which is a meaningful saving on a $4,000 door package. On the federal side, the 25C energy credit returns 30% of product cost, up to $600 per year on qualifying units, when the door meets energy performance standards. And most carriers apply a windstorm-premium credit, often around 25% on the windstorm portion of your policy, after a wind-mitigation inspection that runs $75 to $150. We don’t set program terms and we won’t guarantee your exact numbers. But we will give you the documentation your inspector, insurer, and accountant need to file for every credit that applies.

One more thing worth knowing. When you compare impact doors to hurricane shutters, you’re comparing permanent protection to a system that only works if someone is home and has time to hang panels before the storm. Impact doors protect with zero action required, and they carry the NOA paperwork your insurance company actually wants to see.

We Also Serve Cities Near Kendall

Our crews work throughout the surrounding area, including Door Installation for homeowners in Fountainebleau, Miami, Hialeah, and Doral. If you live just outside Kendall, call us anyway. We’ll let you know on the first call whether we can schedule you, and we treat every quote with the same line-item detail, no trip charge inside the home county.

FAQs - Door Installation in Kendall

What Opening Up an Older Kendall Home Actually Turns Up

This is the part nobody tells you before you sign a door contract. Kendall’s housing stock leans hard toward 1970s through 1990s CBS construction. When we remove an old door, we are not just pulling a slab off its hinges. We’re opening the rough opening, and that’s where the surprises live. Undersized headers. Rotted bucks. Failed waterproofing at the threshold. Outdated aluminum wiring running through the jamb. Corroded anchors that were never meant to hold an impact-rated assembly.

We handle it the same way on every Kendall job. Inspection first, before we quote. We look at the rough opening, the header condition, the floor level at the threshold, and the existing anchoring. Then we write allowances into the contract for concealed damage, with real dollar bands rather than open-ended contingencies. If we find something behind the wall, you get a written change order with a firm price and you approve it before we touch the next screw. No surprise invoices. No stop-work orders. No permit complications because we tried to hide what we found.

The permit itself is part of this. Because Kendall is unincorporated Miami-Dade County, the inspector verifies the NOA number, edition date, and anchor pattern on-site. An out-of-county contractor who only knows the Florida Product Approval sticker system used in Broward will fail this inspection. We don’t. We live in the HVHZ and we install to its full substrate-specific specs every single time.

Your door is the security boundary between your family and the next storm. In Kendall, that’s not a metaphor. It’s a code requirement. Get it done by someone who already answers to the county inspector.

Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving Kendall and the surrounding South Florida communities since 2011.