I'd like to find a less expensive alternative. What would you pay for a new door, hardware and frame? I can't do it myself and the handyman got old. --71.104.xx.xxx

Pay for my hotel and I'll drive out there and do it for half including material. And maybe a home cooked meal. --70.44.xxx.xx

I would consider it full price to have a door installed for $2K less. --70.160.xxx.xxx

Thanks for the offer NE but I would rather someone local. You think I am crazy anyway. --71.104.xx.xxx

Of course, if the house is very expensive, Class A or a mansion, prices of doors and labor can be much higher. No one puts a $600 door on a million dollar plus house. --24.180.xx.xx

If you pay anywhere near that price, it'll be official that you're crazy. --70.44.xxx.xx

Thank you Richard. I just looked at Jeld Wen fiberglass door online from HD and it's 5K just for the door. So the house really does not need a fiberglass door and there is only an 11 year warranty. I don't like what happens to fiberglass cars or pool slides in the sun so I probably would not like what happens to a south facing fiberglass door either. It's between Class B and C. It's two story stucco but I keep it nice and next door homes are the same and more c than b. I didn't start out looking for fiberglass. The problem is a bashed up frame. The current door is fine. Prehung would solve the draft problem. Metal dents so easily so I guess I am really looking for another wood door. --71.104.xx.xxx

If the current door is good then you can buy the frame separate. Is the weatherstrip good on the bottom of the door? You can buy it separate as well. --73.120.xx.xxx

Look at the Jen-Weld Craftsman style steel pre-hung door at Lowes, $299. Adding a storm door and labor should be around $1000 total. --64.130.xx.xxx

Find a new handymen,actually Home Depot or Lowes would install it for way less than that,actually i assume that they would. --72.231.xxx.xxx

I had Lowe's come out to do a quote, about a year ago, on a rear exterior door (no storm door). The quote was $1200. It seemed high to me and I just left the door in place because it is still useable. --72.188.xxx.xxx

I had Lowe's come out to do a quote, about a year ago, on a rear exterior door (no storm door). The quote was $1200. It seemed high to me and I just left the door in place because it is still useable. --72.188.xxx.xxx

I asked the garage door people about their doors because they are a DOOR company, all kinds of doors. Seems like they only sell this one. I turned down their quote so I will see if they come up with a price for a normal wood door installed. --71.104.xx.xxx

Our previous next door neighbors bought just a plexiglass storm door for $2000! --75.11.xx.xx

So your total cost will run between $600 to $1200, and not $2,575...depending on your choices... --47.155.xx.xxx

Get more quotes. I ran into my heating person and we were chatting about business. He is so busy and didn’t want the work but instead of saying no he tripled his price giving a quote of 17K for a job and they said yes. Now he has to do the job. Too much work, not enough workforce, rates are high because they can. --73.17.xx.xxx

Wow 17 K for a heater! When a person is cold in NH I guess they will pay anything. Heating people make the mistake of not hiring unskilled people to carry the heater etc into the building. They hurt themselves and then can't work and quit and that leaves the young partially trained people to do the intricate work. I have seen this for 25 years and told the owners of the companies and of course no one listens. --71.104.xx.xxx

Does your quote include a house payment too? --24.101.xxx.xx

Is this a custom size door or do you need to retrieve the door because the standard size door is smaller than a custom size door would be? --70.16.xxx.xx

It's a normal size door. No problems. --71.104.xx.xxx

Better to get a stock Home Depot or Lowe’s door anyway. Anything ordered is taking a very long time. Sometimes going into the local store is good, I have found higher end doors there for cheaper then stock because they were ones that somebody ordered but cancelled. Also, Habitat for Humanity sometimes has new doors in standard sizes. --75.133.xxx.xx

thanks RentsDue, you had snow. I saw it on the weather this morning. I remember an October in 1970 when it snowed and the darn stuff never melted until May up there where you are. --71.104.xx.xxx

Lowe's pulls a permit when they do a door here, and they told me they couldn't do a wood exterior door because code won't allow it anymore here. So that drove up the price estimate. So it may be cheaper to use a handyman than Lowe's. --72.188.xxx.xxx

Lowe's pulls a permit when they do a door here, and they told me they couldn't do a wood exterior door because code won't allow it anymore here. So that drove up the price estimate. So it may be cheaper to use a handyman than Lowe's. --72.188.xxx.xxx

Lowe's pulls a permit when they do a door here, and they told me they couldn't do a wood exterior door because code won't allow it anymore here. So that drove up the price estimate. So it may be cheaper to use a handyman than Lowe's. --72.188.xxx.xxx

Lowe's pulls a permit when they do a door here, and they told me they couldn't do a wood exterior door because code won't allow it anymore here. So that drove up the price estimate. So it may be cheaper to use a handyman than Lowe's. --72.188.xxx.xxx

Ugh, sorry about the multiple posts. --72.188.xxx.xxx

A picture tells a thousand words --66.97.xxx.xxx

I like the one with the 6 panel window facade. --66.97.xxx.xxx

on, there is actually a Facebook page. But it's a small thing so not to worry. Maybe tomorrow I will post it there. --71.104.xx.xxx

I can see what your problem is and help you --66.97.xxx.xxx

IMO at the end of the day if you have the money & are satisfied with the contractor & their installation, it really doesn't matter how much any of your "imaginary internet axe murdering" fellow LLs think it should cost. --71.174.xxx.xx

Thank you Steve and all others. Definitely need new wood around the door as it has been bashed by furniture over the years. I remember one contractor telling me that something about the opening makes it impossible to do that. But maybe he didn't want the job. I have a cabinet maker/carpenter coming on Monday. I will see what he says. What bothers me about him is that he installed a new interior door for me and did not measure the opening in three places so it was out of square and he had to do a lot of extra cutting. I told him that houses made in the 50s never have square openings. Lots of good carpenters must have died in WWII. I will ask him to measure and watch him and maybe he can get a prehung door to fit but it has to end up the same size so furniture, can be brought in. --71.104.xx.xxx

And it is not the total what ever you want to call judy mistake --66.97.xxx.xxx

And it is not the total what ever you want to call judy mistake --66.97.xxx.xxx

And it is not the total what ever you want to call judy mistake --66.97.xxx.xxx

And it is not the total what ever you want to call judy mistake --66.97.xxx.xxx

And it is not the total what ever you want to call judy mistake --66.97.xxx.xxx

Miss Alicia,If I we’re you I’d take up the lad in Pennsylvania‘a offer,it sounds better than getting ripped off,I think they must have seen you coming,Are you wearing a sign round your neck,if I. Was 30 years younger, I’d drive down on 95 to Newark myself and give you a decent quote..charlie --32.214.xxx.xx

What’s this world coming too ............charlie --32.214.xxx.xx

It’s really sad????? --32.214.xxx.xx