What It Costs
We won't put a number on your job until someone looks at the opening, because the range on a new install is wide. A single door on a house from the 1980s or 90s stock that makes up most of Daphne's 14 named areas usually needs a straightforward swap onto the existing track width. A double door, an insulated panel upgrade, or a new opener with rolling code and battery backup all move the number. Framing repair adds more if the old jamb has shifted, which shows up more often on houses from the earlier end of our 1963-2007 build range.
We quote in person or from clear photos of the opening, header, and track, not over the phone from a description. That's not us stalling - a guess that's wrong by a few hundred dollars helps nobody. What we can tell you up front is that replacing a door outright, rather than patching a 25-30 year old one panel by panel, is usually the better spend once the original springs, rollers, and track are all near the end of their life at the same time.
How It Shows Up
Most calls for a full install come from one of two directions. Either the door itself is original to a house built in that 1963-2007 window and everything on it - springs, cables, rollers, the panels themselves - is worn out at once, or the homeowner is doing a garage conversion or opener upgrade that the old door and track can't support.
On the older end of Daphne's housing, doors from the 60s through the 80s were sized and hung for openers that don't exist anymore, so a straight swap sometimes means new track and new header hardware too, not just a new door bolted to the old rails. On houses from the 90s and 2000s, the door itself is often fine structurally but the insulation is thin and the panels have taken enough sun and minor impact that they're not worth patching. Either way, the tell is usually a door that still opens and closes but rattles, sags at the corners, or won't seal at the bottom anymore.
How Long It Takes
A single-door install on an opening that doesn't need framing work is usually a same-day job once the door and hardware are on the truck. Double doors, custom sizes, or anything needing header or track modification takes longer, mostly because of what has to be measured and fitted, not because the work itself is slow.
The part that's out of our hands is lead time on the door itself. If you want a specific panel style, color, or insulation package that isn't a stock size, that has to be ordered, and we won't promise a delivery date we don't control. If you need the opening usable again right away, we'll tell you honestly whether a stock door gets you there faster than the one you had in mind, rather than let you wait on a special order with an open garage in the meantime.
