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Most door replacement jobs in San Antonio run between $800 for a simple slab swap and $4,500 for a full pre-hung entry system with impact-rated glazing, and the work usually takes one day once the unit is on site. We schedule San Antonio jobs on a fixed date, not a window, and our crew arrives with the door, the flashing, the shims, and the permit paperwork already sorted. Call (754) 238-2201 and we’ll walk you through what your specific opening needs before we ever quote a price.
We know the difference between a 1920s farmhouse off Blanton Road and a 2005 rancher near Lake Jovita. That matters because San Antonio’s older openings were built to dimensions that no longer exist in a manufacturer catalog, and a crew that doesn’t know that will either shim a door into a frame that will bind by August or start cutting rough openings without telling you why the price just changed.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is San Antonio’s Preferred Door Installation Company
TruePane was founded by second-generation glazier Dale Kessler in 2008, and the company carries years of craft heritage into every framing, flashing, and finish detail. We’re an authorized installer for, PGT, and CGI, and we quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper so you see exactly what each dollar buys. No other installer in the San Antonio area registers both warranty layers in writing before the truck leaves your driveway. That’s The Keystone Standard, and it’s on every job we run here.
Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, and they measure every opening twice before ordering a single unit. San Antonio’s older homes punish crews that measure once and trust the builder’s nominal dimensions. We’ve pulled original doors on Michigan Avenue that were supposedly 36 by 80 and found the actual opening 1½ inches out of square with a rotted sole plate underneath. The customer had been quoted a simple door swap by another company. We reframed the opening, replaced the sill, and installed a true-to-size entry door that swings clean in every season. That’s the difference between quoting a door and doing the job.
A live person answers our phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not a voicemail tree. If you call at 6 a.m. because a storm blew your storm door off its hinges and the rain is coming in, you’ll talk to a person who can tell you what we’ll do about it. We sponsor county fairs and church roof funds in Pasco County because this is the community we plan to be serving in thirty years, not a market we’re passing through.
Our Door Installation Services in San Antonio
San Antonio’s housing stock demands more than a catalog door and a caulk gun. The oldest blocks around the historic town center were built by Belgian immigrant families starting in the 1880s, and those wood-frame openings were framed by hand, not by a plan wizard. The newer parcels south toward the county line mix 1980s manufactured homes with repurposed agricultural buildings and pole barns converted to workshops. Each of these needs a different approach, and we scope every job before we quote it. Here’s what we handle in San Antonio:
Entry & Swing Doors
An entry door in San Antonio is doing more than keeping out the weather. It’s holding back the humidity that never really leaves inland Pasco County, and it’s expected to swing true through soil movement that settles and shifts with every irrigation cycle. We install pre-hung steel and fiberglass entry systems with proper pan flashing, jamb shims, and threshold sealing. On the older farmhouses near the old Belgian church, we plan for rough-opening work before the unit is ordered, so you’re not surprised by a reframe on install day.
Double & French Doors
French doors on a San Antonio ranch or farmhouse make sense: they open to the porch, the pasture, the garden. But they fail fast when the header sags or the threshold isn’t sloped away from the house. We set double and French units with reinforced headers where the framing has settled, and we account for Pasco County’s wind-load requirements so your doors pass inspection the first time. A pair of French doors in San Antonio typically runs $2,800 to $6,500 installed, depending on width, glazing, and what we find inside the rough opening.
Bifold & Folding Doors
Bifold and folding door systems are popular on San Antonio’s acreage properties, where a workshop or an ADU opens to a covered workspace. These doors ride on tracks that must stay dead level across a concrete slab, and Central Florida’s afternoon sun will warp an undersized track within two summers. We install folding door systems with reinforced track support, and we check the slab’s flatness before we order so the doors don’t bind at the center post. Expect to spend $3,500 to $9,000 on a folding door system in the San Antonio area, depending on panel count and glazing.
Pivot Doors
A pivot door on a slab-home entry makes a statement, but it’s a statement that depends on a perfectly plumb jamb and a subfloor that isn’t wicking moisture from the slab edge. Our team installs pivot doors with full flashing tape and weep screed details that keep Central Florida humidity out of the subfloor. On San Antonio homes where the slab has settled, we build the pivot mount to the actual conditions, not the spec sheet. Pivot door installation here runs $4,000 to $10,000 for most residential openings, and we’ll scope it before you commit.
What happens when you call
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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 San Antonio
We stock and install doors from Andersen, Jeld-Wen, PGT, ES Windows, and CGI, and we can order custom units from ECO Window Systems when the opening demands it. Because San Antonio is a drive from most suppliers, we keep the common parts on our trucks: threshold gaskets, hinge shims, storm-door closers, and impact-rated glazing beads. You won’t wait a week for a $4 hinge part because a different crew didn’t pack it. We quote the manufacturer lines you’re considering, side by side, with the warranty terms written out. No fine print, no pressure.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in San Antonio Homes
- Settled jambs from soil movement: In San Antonio’s sandy, fast-draining soil, watering a lawn for two seasons will shift a slab edge or a pier-and-beam perimeter by enough to make a door bind against the latch side. The hinge screws slowly work loose, the frame splits at the corners, and the door starts grabbing at the top jamb. We see this on nearly every pre-1990 home in the San Antonio area.
- Non-standard rough openings on pre-war homes: The houses near the historic town center were framed before dimensional lumber came standardized, and their door openings are often 1 to 3 inches off from a modern 36-by-80 rough opening. A replacement door can’t just slide in. We modify the rough opening to a true size, then set the new unit so it closes without a shim stack two inches thick on one side.
- Septic and well setbacks on acreage: On San Antonio’s rural parcels, a detached workshop door or an ADU entry installed closer than 10 feet from a septic drain field fails a Pasco County inspection. We pull the county permit, check your septic and well drawings, and locate the setbacks before we dig a single post or cut a single opening. It changes where a door can go, and sometimes it changes the whole plan.
- Afternoon warp on 1980s slabs: A 1980s slab door in San Antonio will often feel fine in the morning and bind by 4 p.m. The sun heats the south-facing wall, the slab expands, and the frame shifts just enough to grab the strike plate. The fix is not a new door. It’s a properly set jamb with room for thermal cycling and weatherstripping that doesn’t compress into a wedge by late afternoon.
Pricing for Door Installation in San Antonio, FL
Entry door replacement in San Antonio runs $800 to $2,400 for a slab swap where the existing frame is square and the threshold is sound. A full pre-hung entry system with impact-rated glazing runs $2,500 to $4,500. French doors, as mentioned, run $2,800 to $6,500. Storm doors run $500 to $1,200 installed, including the closer and the sweep. Arched and custom doors run $3,000 to $7,500 and up, depending on the radius, the species, and whether the rough opening needs rebuilding. Every quote we write in San Antonio includes the line items for flashing, shims, threshold, trim, and disposal. No round-number “package” pricing, no add-ons at the end. When the permit comes back approved and the door closes clean, the bill matches the quote. Call (754) 238-2201 for a free estimate, and we’ll measure on site before we name a price.
We Also Serve Cities Near San Antonio
If you’re just down the road in Wesley Chapel, Dade City, Trilby, or Lacoochee, our Door Installation in San Antonio team already runs that route. We schedule trips up the Bellamy Brothers corridor and around Lake Iola every week, and we plan the jobs so you’re not waiting through a supply chain delay on a door sitting in a warehouse 50 miles south.
Serving San Antonio, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the San Antonio 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 San Antonio
Yes, and the requirement comes from Pasco County, not the City of San Antonio, because San Antonio is unincorporated and falls under county permitting. A like-for-like slab swap on an existing frame is often a simple permit, but a pre-hung replacement on an older farmhouse where we’re opening the rough frame to accept a modern unit needs a building permit with the wind-load and fenestration forms. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection, and make the corrections if the inspector tags something. Call (754) 238-2201 and we’ll check your specific property before we write the quote.
Not necessarily, but it might, because Pasco County’s wind speed zone applies whether or not you’re on the Gulf coast. Inland homes in San Antonio still fall under the Florida Building Code’s wind-load requirements for exterior openings, which means either impact-rated glazing or an approved shutter or protection system gets you to final inspection. We walk you through both options on paper before you order. Often the impact-rated door costs a few hundred more and passes inspection without the extra shutter expense.
In many cases yes, but only if the door opening sits at least 10 feet from the drain field’s edge, which is a Pasco County setback requirement. We’ve had San Antonio jobs where the shop door had to move 6 feet to the left because the septic drawing showed the drain field running under where the owner planned the opening. We pull the county permit, check the site plan, and tell you before we cut. Call (754) 238-2201 with your property address and the APN, and we’ll run it down.
Because the San Antonio sun is heating the wall and the slab at different rates, and a 1980s frame with thin shims and short screws is flexing under the thermal load. The slab expands, the jamb shifts a few thousandths, and the door binds at the latch or the top corner. By morning it releases. The fix is a properly shimmed frame with longer screws into the framing and weatherstripping that compresses evenly. It’s a one-day correction most of the time, not a full door replacement. Give us a call at (754) 238-2201 and we’ll tell you if your slab is actually warped or just poorly set.
You should choose a manufacturer whose glazing carries a long written seal-failure warranty and register it in writing on install day, because San Antonio’s year-round humidity and daily thermal cycling test seals harder than the manufacturer’s lab. We register both warranty layers, the glass unit’s and the door structure’s, before our truck leaves your driveway. If a seal fails down the road, you have the paperwork, the policy number, and the installer who answers the phone. That’s The Keystone Standard on every door we hang in San Antonio. For an exact quote on your opening, call (754) 238-2201.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving San Antonio and all of Pasco County with door installation done right since 2008.
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.