Door Installation in Hollywood - Written Price Before Anything Is Ordered

Fast, Reliable Door Installation Across Hollywood

Door installation in Hollywood runs $1,200 to $4,800 for most entry and replacement doors, depending on whether the opening is standard or the pre-1940s arched type that requires a custom jamb. For hurricane-rated front doors with fire-rated glazing assemblies, expect $3,500 to $7,500 installed. Call Sightline Windows & Doors at (509) 265-6387 for a written price before any work starts.

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Hollywood is two different housing markets stacked on top of each other. Down in the flats, you’ll find 1920s and 1930s Spanish Colonial Revival cottages and Craftsman bungalows with arched entries, steel casements, and rough openings that haven’t been square since Truman was in office. Up in the hills, the post-and-beam mid-centuries carry floor-to-ceiling glass and wide sliders that need impact-rated replacements. Our crews serve both. We measure once, price it in writing, and document every opening with photos when the job is done.

Why Sightline Windows & Doors Is Hollywood’s Preferred Door Installation Company

We work under a written standard called Haven, and Clause 1 is simple: the measured survey and the final invoice are the same document. That means the price you approve before we order materials is the price you pay after the last screw is set. No change orders, no “unforeseen conditions” upcharges. If we find rotted framing or missing flashing when we pull the old door, we write the scope change, you approve it in writing, and only then do we proceed.

Since 2012, Sightline has installed more than 18,000 windows and doors, every one with a written price before work started and a documented photo record when it finished. Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and arrive with license numbers on the record. In Hollywood specifically, that matters because the person at your door on a HPOZ-protected 1920s bungalow needs to understand preservation board requirements, not just how to swing a level. Sonia Raman leads our team and reviews every Hollywood estimate personally before it goes out.

Our Door Installation Services in Hollywood

Entry Doors

A new entry door in Hollywood has to do three jobs: hold a seal against Santa Ana wind, match the architectural language of your house, and pass whatever review your street triggers. On the flats, a 1920s original often sits in an out-of-square rough opening with wood sash that’s been painted shut for decades. We measure the actual opening, not the nominal size, and order to the measurement. Standard entry door replacement in Hollywood runs $1,200 to $3,200 installed.

Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors

This is where Hollywood gets complicated. If your address falls inside the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone in the hills, LAFD review will require SFM-listed fire-rated glazing in the door assembly. That’s a specialty order with weeks of lead time, and crews who mostly work the flats rarely see it coming. We check the VHFHSZ trigger before we quote, so the price you get already includes what the permit will demand. Impact-rated front door installations in Hollywood typically run $3,500 to $7,500 depending on glazing rating and design pressure requirements.

French & Double Doors

French doors on a Hollywood hillside mid-century are usually the weakest thermal point in the house. The original 1960s sliders and double doors have lost their seals, the hardware is worn, and the frames flex under wind load. We replace them with impact-rated units from PGT or CGI, matched to the wind zone your parcel sits in. For the flats, French doors on a Spanish Revival need a custom radius head if the opening is arched, which adds 20 to 30 percent to material cost. Budget $4,000 to $9,000 for French or double door replacement in Hollywood.

Replacement Doors

Replacing an old door in Hollywood is rarely a one-for-one swap. The 1950s post-and-beams in the hills have settled, leaving jambs out of square by a half inch or more. The 1920s flats have rough openings framed with lumber that isn’t dimensional-standard by modern code. We shim, square, and seal properly rather than hiding gaps behind trim. Count on $1,500 to $4,200 for a standard replacement door, more if we’re correcting framing as part of the install.

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Trusted Brands We Service in Hollywood

We specify from eight manufacturer lines and service all of them under warranty. For Hollywood, the ones that come up most are PGT for impact-rated entry systems, CGI for heavy-wind-zone doors on hillside exposures, and Therma-Tru for fiberglass doors that hold a finish and a seal in the flats. We also work with ES Windows for custom glazing in mid-century openings. Parts lead times for Hollywood are typically 3 to 5 business days for stock units; custom fabrication runs 4 to 6 weeks.

Common Door Installation Problems We See in Hollywood Homes

These are the issues we flag when we walk a Hollywood door opening. Some are visible during the estimate. Some only show up once the old door is out of the wall.

• VHFHSZ permit surprise. A hillside quote gets written for a standard pre-hung door, then the permit triggers LAFD review and suddenly the door needs fire-rated glazing. Lead time adds weeks. We check this before quoting.
• Arched openings shimmed with plywood. On 1920s flats, we find stock rectangular units dropped into radius openings and hidden behind trim. The first Santa Ana wind finds every unsealed gap.
• Out-of-square jambs from settlement. Hillside post-and-beam homes flex under wind load, and a new slab that isn’t installed with that flex in mind binds within a season.
• Rotted framing with no flashing. Original construction on pre-war Hollywood homes often has no sill flashing, so decades of sideways rain have rotted the rough opening. We won’t set a new door on rotted wood.

Pricing for Door Installation in Hollywood, FL

What Door Installation Costs in Hollywood

For a full picture across the house, impact windows in Hollywood run $800 to $1,500 per unit installed, single-hung impact units $900 to $1,800, and large or custom openings $2,500 to $5,000. Whole-home packages of windows and doors typically land between $8,000 and $25,000 or more depending on the glazing spec and how many openings we’re pulling. Every Hollywood estimate is free, includes the in-home measure, and comes with the written quote in hand before you decide anything.

Impact windows versus hurricane shutters: shutters protect against wind-borne debris but you have to be home to hang them, they take a half hour per opening in a storm warning, and they do nothing for UV fade or thermal performance the rest of the year. Impact-rated windows and doors are permanent protection, they’re already in place when the storm hits, and they earn windstorm-premium credits. We don’t install shutters.

Florida Pays You Back

Florida’s incentive stack matters on a Hollywood door replacement. My Safe Florida Home offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, which includes impact-rated door and window assemblies. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax. The federal 25C energy credit can return 30 percent of product cost, up to $600 per year, on qualifying units. And after a wind-mitigation inspection, which runs $75 to $150, windstorm-premium credits average around 25 percent on the windstorm portion of your policy. Final numbers come from your carrier and the state program, not from us, but we document the installation so the inspection has something to verify.

Rough Opening Surprises: The Real Cost of Remodeling an Old Hollywood Home

This is the thing nobody tells you before the door comes out. On a 1926 Spanish Colonial Revival bungalow in the Whitley Heights HPOZ, our crew pulled the original arched front entry and found undersized, dry-rotted framing and no flashing at all. The permit triggered a structural review once the wall was open. We wrote the upgrade into the allowance: new king studs, a Therma-Tru fiberglass door in a custom radius jamb, hidden surface-mount weatherstripping, and the original tile threshold reset. The homeowner approved every line item in writing before we reframed, sealed, and closed it up. That’s how we handle surprises: inspection first, allowances written into the contract, and any change priced and approved in writing before a tool touches the work.

This is the single biggest reason a Hollywood door quote moves after it’s signed. Old wiring behind the jamb, undersized or rotted framing, failed waterproofing, code upgrades triggered by the open wall. The flats and the hills have different failure modes, but the same lesson: what you can’t see controls the final price. We structure every Hollywood estimate with a written allowance for framing and waterproofing repairs, so the number you approve already anticipates what the open wall will show.

Field Notes: What the Street-to-Street Split Actually Means

Hollywood is bisected between two radically different door markets. The hillside homes inside the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone are subject to CBC Chapter R327 and LAFD ember-resistance requirements, meaning the glazing in your door assembly must be SFM-listed and fire-rated. The 1920s to 1940s Spanish Colonial Revival and Craftsman bungalows in the flats sit inside Historic Preservation Overlay Zones that reject off-the-shelf replacement units for the wrong sightline or material. A door installation here can be rejected by LAFD for missing ember-resistant glazing or by a preservation board for the wrong jamb profile, sometimes on the same street-to-street basis. No neighboring city, not Burbank or Culver City or anywhere else in the basin, combines both constraints at this density. That’s the page you’re reading: how door installation in Hollywood handles the two-way punch of VHFHSZ fire-code review and HPOZ preservation rules, so you don’t get a permit surprise or a board rejection after the wall is open.

Learn more about our full Door Installation process, or read about how we serve Door Installation in Hollywood specifically.

We Also Serve Cities Near Hollywood

Beyond Hollywood, our crews cover North Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Gardens, and Plantation. Scheduling and dispatch run from our Miami office, but the measuring team and install crews serve Hollywood locally. Same written pricing, same documentation, same Haven Standard.

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