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Door installation in Lantana runs between $1,400 and $6,800 for most homes, with impact-rated entry doors landing on the higher end. The ranges move based on product selection, the condition of your existing rough opening, and whether your home sits directly on Lake Worth Lagoon or a few blocks inland. We schedule Lantana jobs every week, and our crews know the block-by-block differences between Lantana Heights, Hypoluxo Island, and the waterfront streets off Ocean Avenue. Call (561) 349-4826 for a written quote on your door project.
What Lantana homeowners are really buying is a door that can stand up to salt air and wind code. Not every door can. We’ll show you which product lines actually meet Palm Beach County’s wind-borne debris requirements, put the numbers in writing, and install it square. That’s the whole job.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Lantana’s Preferred Door Installation Company
TruePane has been doing Door Installation across South Florida since Dale Kessler founded the company in 2008, building on a family trade that goes back many years. Lantana homeowners call us because the work holds up, and because we answer the phone when they call back. The Done Right Promise is in writing on every job. If the install is not dead true, we make it right without making you argue for it.
Lantana has its own character. Homes here are mostly CBS construction from the fifties, sixties, and early seventies. Rough openings are seldom square, thresholds have been sanded and patched more than once, and salt from the lagoon works on hardware year-round. A crew from a franchise playbook can misread an old Lantana jamb and wind up three days deep before they figure out the opening needs steel shims. Our background-checked, uniformed technicians have handled enough of these openings to know what they’re looking at before they pull the old frame.
The Keystone Standard applies to every Lantana job: both manufacturer warranty layers are registered in writing with durations stated, and the workmanship is guaranteed for 90 days. No fine print that covers neither. We serve Lantana homes with the same crew discipline we bring to high-end waterfront work, because the standard doesn’t change with the zip code.
Our Door Installation Services in Lantana
Entry & Swing Doors
Entry doors in Lantana are code-critical in a way inland homeowners never think about. Every exterior door in this town must be impact-rated or protected, and because Lantana sits inside the wind-borne debris region, the inspector will check the NOA before closing out the permit. We install Impact Windows & Doors - Lantana from Andersen, PGT, and Marvin, with marine-grade stainless hinges and multi-point locks as standard on waterfront and water-adjacent lots. A properly hung Lantana entry door closes with a soft thud, keeps the afternoon heat off the lagoon out of your foyer, and takes a named storm without flexing at the strike plate.
Double & French Doors
Sliding & Patio Doors in Lantana are big moving panels, and in Lantana they get hammered by two things at once: wind pressure and salt. An out-of-true double door binds in July and lets in water during an August squall. We set reveals consistently on both panels, use adjustable astragals where the manufacturer allows them, and flash the sill pan correctly so that standing water from a hard rain never reaches the threshold. If you’re near Lake Worth Lagoon, we’ll talk you through marine-grade hardware options before you spend a dollar on decorative hinges that will be corroding by year three.
Bifold & Folding Doors
Bifold and folding door systems change how a Lantana home connects to its lanai or backyard. But a folding door on a 1960s CBS wall means the header needs engineering, not guesswork. We work with the permit office, pull engineering with wind-load calculations, and set the track dead level before the panels ever go in. Manufacturers like ES Windows and ECO Window Systems make folding doors that handle both coastal wind code and daily salt exposure. The hardware matters as much as the glass. We spec marine-grade finishes on rollers, hinges, and handles because the lagoon doesn’t care what the door cost.
Arched & Custom Doors
Arched and custom doors are where Lantana projects get interesting. A lot of the ranch and mid-century CBS homes on West Pine Street, Broadway, and the blocks around Lantana Community Park have openings that are not standard rectangles. Custom arched doors require a template, an engineer, and a manufacturer who will cut the frame to match the radius. Lead times on custom work run long, which we’ll cover honestly below. The benefit: a door that actually fits the opening, instead of a standard jamb shoved into an arched hole and covered with trim that never looks right.
What happens when you call
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Lantana
We’re an authorized installer for, PGT, and more than a dozen other lines, including ES Windows, ECO Window Systems. What that means for Lantana homeowners: we quote these brands side by side on paper, so you see what each product costs and what each warranty covers, in writing, before you pick. We also stock common replacement parts and hardware finishes suited to coastal environments, so a service call to your Lantana home doesn’t stall waiting on a hinge or a threshold that was ordered from a catalog.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Lantana Homes
- Wind-load paperwork missing. Contractors hang a non-impact door on an exterior opening, the inspector flags it, and now the homeowner is paying for a tear-out plus a reorder with a 10-week lead. We pull engineering and NOA documentation before the install, not after the red tag.
- Out-of-square CBS rough openings. The older block homes off Dixie Highway and Federal Highway rarely have square door openings. A standard jamb won’t seat, and shimming it with cedar scraps is not a fix. We use custom steel shims and backer rod, and we shoulder the frame for wind load.
- Salt-air corrosion on hardware. Lake Worth Lagoon’s daily salt spray eats powder-coated aluminum thresholds and hardware in two seasons. We spec marine-grade conversion coatings and stainless hardware so the door doesn’t drag at the sweep or bind at the strike plate by year two.
- Jalousie door replacements treated like simple retrofits. When the old jamb gets pulled from a 1950s or 1960s CBS wall, the opening often crumbles and needs floor-to-header reinforcement to meet current wind-load calcs. That’s a multi-day adjustment a lot of quotes never included. We price it honestly from the start.
Pricing for Door Installation in Lantana, FL
Entry and swing door installation on a standard Lantana CBS home typically runs $1,400 to $3,200 for a good impact-rated unit, fully installed and flashed. Double and French doors start around $2,600 and can hit $6,800 with decorative glass and marine-grade hardware. Bifold and folding doors are the big swing item: $4,000 on the low end and $12,000 or more for a multi-panel system with engineering and header work on an older home. Arched and custom doors follow the material and template cost, usually $2,800 to $7,500.
What moves the number: the condition of the rough opening, which product line you choose, hardware finish, and whether the opening needs engineering for wind load. We write fixed pricing with no change orders. Call (561) 349-4826 to schedule a free estimate. The quote you get is the number on the invoice.
We Also Serve Cities Near Lantana
Our crews run local to Door Installation jobs across southern Palm Beach County, including Wellington, Belle Glade, Loxahatchee Groves, and Westlake. Dispatch and scheduling come through the South Florida office, but the technicians on your job are from the area and know these roads. If you’re outside Lantana, call anyway and we’ll tell you straight whether we can get to you this week.
Serving Lantana, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lantana 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 Lantana
Because Lantana sits inside Palm Beach County’s wind-borne debris region. The code requires every exterior door to be impact-rated or protected, and the permit office wants engineer-signed wind-load calculations before they’ll sign off. Matching the old opening size doesn’t remove that requirement. We handle the engineering and NOA documentation as part of the job, so the permit doesn’t stall halfway through your install. Call (561) 349-4826 and we’ll walk you through what applies to your specific street.
Uncoated or lightly-coated aluminum hardware on the lagoon can show visible corrosion within two to three years. We spec marine-grade conversion coatings and stainless hinges and locks on any Lantana home within a few blocks of the water. Inland communities like Greenacres never have to think about that. It’s a standard conversation we have with every waterfront homeowner before ordering.
Replacing an exterior door in Lantana requires a permit, period. It’s not a gray area. A jalousie replacement also pulls the old jamb out of a CBS opening that’s often deteriorated, and that’s done correctly with wind-load engineering and proper anchoring. A contractor who says otherwise is setting you up for a stop-work order. Our team pulls the permit, gets the engineering, and installs it to pass inspection the first time.
Figure 8 to 12 weeks for most custom arched doors, depending on the manufacturer and the glass package. The template and shop drawings happen first, then production. If a contractor quotes you one week on a custom arched door, they’re cutting corners. We order everything in writing with a confirmed production date, and we tell you the lead time before you sign. It’s long because it’s made to your opening, not pulled from a distributor’s shelf.
No, it means the sealed unit has failed and moisture has worked its way into the air space. Salt air accelerates that failure because it corrodes the edge seal and the frame’s weep system. Lantana homes near the lagoon see this sooner than inland homes. The fix is a new insulated glass unit, and depending on the frame condition, sometimes a full door replacement. Call (561) 349-4826 and we’ll tell you which one you’re looking at before we quote anything.
What Lantana Homeowners Need to Know Before They Order a Door
Here’s the local truth that doesn’t show up on a manufacturer’s brochure. Lantana sits directly on Lake Worth Lagoon, and nearly the whole town falls inside the wind-borne debris region. That’s a one-two punch: the door must be impact-rated to pass code, and the hardware must be marine-grade to survive the salt that comes off the water every day. Inland towns like Greenacres never think about the second part. A “standard” impact door with generic hardware will pass inspection and look fine for eighteen months, while Energy-Efficient Windows - Lantana options with proper coatings perform far longer. Then the threshold starts to pit, the strike plate binds, the sweep drags, and by year three you’re calling someone to fix a door that should have lasted twenty. We spec marine-grade stainless hinges, multi-point locks, and conversion coatings even on modest CBS homes, because the lagoon is the lagoon, whether your house cost $300,000 or $3 million.
The second thing to know is that older Lantana openings are rarely square. Fifty, sixty, seventy years of settling, plus the crumble in CBS rough openings, means a stock jamb won’t seat without custom steel shims, backer rod, and flashing work. We saw it on West Pine Street recently: a 1962 jalousie side-entry door pulled out, and the threshold underneath had rotted through from decades of floodwater wicking. The homeowner only caught it because the new impact-rated door wouldn’t seal on the uneven sill. Our crew cut out the old marble threshold, packed the cavity with closed-cell backer rod, and installed a composite sill pan with flashing tape up both jambs. We hung a Marvin Ultimate swinging French door with SDL bars, shouldered the opening with custom hickory shims because it was 5/8″ out of square side to side, and set the sash reveal to a consistent 3/16″ gap. That door closes with a soft thud now, and the argon-filled double glazing cuts the afternoon heat off the lagoon. That’s the standard on every Lantana install.
Key Takeaways for Lantana Door Installation
- Every exterior door in Lantana must meet wind-borne debris code, and the inspector will ask for the NOA.
- Salt air from Lake Worth Lagoon accelerates corrosion on hardware; marine-grade finishes are not optional within a few blocks of the water.
- Older Lantana homes have out-of-square CBS openings that need custom shimming and proper flashing to hold a modern door.
- Custom arched and bifold doors run 8 to 12 weeks for production; anyone promising faster is not telling you the truth.
- TruePane fixes the price in writing before ordering, registers both warranty layers, and backs the install with the Done Right Promise.
Get a Written Quote for Door Installation in Lantana
A door is a big purchase, and in Lantana it’s also a code-regulated one. Get a line-item quote from a company that knows this town, knows the lagoon, and knows what the inspector will look for. Call (561) 349-4826 to schedule your free estimate. We’ll bring product specs, warranty paperwork, and straight answers.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors. Dale founded TruePane in 2008 and leads a team of glaziers serving South Florida, including Lantana, with years of craft heritage in the trade.
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.