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Door installation in Pembroke Park runs $900 to $3,400 for a standard entry door, and $2,500 to $5,500 when you step up to a hurricane-rated unit engineered for Broward County’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Most jobs in Pembroke Park are completed in a single day once your door arrives from the manufacturer. That’s the honest range, and we’re one of the few local crews that will hand it to you straight before we even see your door.
Ed Winslow’s team does not work out of a call center in another state. When you call (850) 998-3090, a live person picks up, day or night. We coordinate scheduling from our Miami office and send background-checked, uniformed technicians to Pembroke Park every week. You’ll know exactly who’s coming to your door before the truck pulls up.
And in Pembroke Park, unlike most of Broward County, the type of home you live in changes the entire door job. More on that below, because it’s the single biggest thing people get wrong when they price this work.
Why Pembroke Park Door Jobs Are Different From Hollywood or Dania Beach
Pembroke Park’s residential streets are dominated by mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities. Lake Forest, Park Lake Estates, and the communities along Hallandale Beach Boulevard west of I-95 are not filled with concrete block ranch houses. They’re filled with HUD-code manufactured homes. That single fact changes everything about how a door gets installed here.
Manufactured home doors use HUD-standard rough openings. A standard residential impact door, the kind you’d order for a house in Hollywood or Miramar, will not seat properly in that opening. We see it all the time: a homeowner or a handyman buys a stock door off a big-box shelf, the hinges bind, the jamb flexes, and within two hurricane seasons the door is leaking air and water around the frame. In Pembroke Park, we order manufactured-home-rated impact doors with the exact rough-opening dimensions, not nominal sizes that are “close enough.” Close enough doesn’t pass a Miami-Dade NOA inspection.
Then add the salt air. Pembroke Park sits close enough to the Atlantic that marine humidity travels miles inland, and it settles on every aluminum track, hinge, and jamb. Doors that would last 20 years in West Kendall corrode here in eight. We specify stainless hinges, marine-grade finishes, and fully sealed jambs on every exterior door we install in Pembroke Park, because we know what the salt does.
This is also where our Door Installation crew’s experience with both manufactured housing and HVHZ code makes the difference. It’s not a niche we dabble in. It’s most of what we do here.
Our Door Installation Services in Pembroke Park
Entry Doors
A new entry door in Pembroke Park changes how your home looks from the street, but more importantly, it’s the first line of defense against intruders and hurricane wind. We install fiberglass, steel, and wood entry doors sized to your exact rough opening. For manufactured homes, that means HUD-standard dimensions. For the older concrete block houses along Southwest 30th Avenue and the streets north of Pembroke Road, it means anchoring into masonry, not wood framing. Each building type gets a different installation approach.
Hurricane-Proof Front & Entry Doors
Every exterior door in Pembroke Park technically needs to meet HVHZ requirements, but a true hurricane-proof door is a different animal. These units carry a Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval for large-missile impact, meaning the door slab, frame, and glass (if any) are tested to take a 2×4 shot at design pressure without breaching. In the mobile home parks especially, anchoring matters as much as the door itself. We anchor through the wall system into the home’s steel chassis, not just into the jamb. Some installers skip that step. We won’t.
French & Double Doors
French doors face real punishment in Pembroke Park because of the salt and the wind. Both leaves need active threshold seals, interlocking astragals at the meeting stile, and multi-point locking hardware rated for the wind zone. We install Therma-Tru and PGT double door systems, built to order with the exact wall thickness and rough opening you have, not shimmed and caulked to hide a bad fit.
Replacement Doors
Replacing a corroded, warped, or jalousie-style door is one of the fastest ways to stop air and water intrusion in an older Pembroke Park home. We pull the old unit, inspect the framing for rot or corrosion, repair it if needed, and set the new door in a fully sealed, properly anchored opening. Most single-door replacements are finished the same day.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Pembroke Park
We install exterior doors from Therma-Tru, PGT, CGI. Therma-Tru fiberglass doors hold up well against Pembroke Park humidity and don’t warp like wood. PGT and CGI manufacture impact-rated doors built specifically for Florida wind zones and the Miami-Dade product approval process. ViewLux gives you a modern look with narrow sightlines if that is the style you are after. Because we stock parts and hardware with local suppliers who serve the manufactured home parks, we can often get replacements moving faster than a contractor who only orders from a national catalog. When a hinge fails or a threshold cracks, you don’t want to wait two weeks for a replacement part to ship from Ohio.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in Pembroke Park Homes
- HUD rough openings mis-sized by standard doors. A stock 36-inch door does not fit the 38-by-76 rough opening common in older manufactured homes without extensive shimming, which creates flex and eventually jamb failure under wind load.
- Salt-air corrosion on hinges and hardware. We open doors in Pembroke Park where the hinges have literal rust blooms and the latch barely engages because salt-laden humidity ate the internals. Stainless and marine-grade hardware solves this permanently.
- Jalousie doors still in service. Jalousie louvered doors move air but stop nothing: no seal, no impact rating, and no real security. Before the panel installers go on, we switch the opening to a solid, rated door.
- Inadequate anchoring in mobile home wall systems. An impact door is only as strong as what it is anchored to. We see doors that look great from the outside but are screwed only into 2×2 wall framing. Under design pressure, the whole assembly pulls loose. We anchor through to the steel chassis.
What Door Installation Costs in Pembroke Park
Entry door replacement in Pembroke Park runs between $900 and $3,400 installed, depending on material and whether the unit is standard or impact-rated. A hurricane-rated entry door with a Miami-Dade NOA typically starts around $2,500 and can reach $5,500 for oversized or custom openings with side lites. Double or French doors run $3,000 to $7,500 because you’re paying for two slabs, more hardware, and more anchoring work.
What moves the price in Pembroke Park specifically is the manufactured home factor. A HUD-standard impact door costs more than a stock residential unit because it’s a specialty SKU, not a big-box item. You also pay for the anchoring upgrade into the steel chassis, which takes longer and uses more engineered connectors. That is not an upsell: it’s the difference between a door that passes inspection and one that fails when the wind blows.
For the older concrete block homes, masonry anchoring and occasionally reframing a corroded jamb add some cost. We give a written line-item quote before the first cut, so there is no surprise stacked on at the end. Call (850) 998-3090 to schedule your free in-home measure and written estimate. The measure is free and exact. No rough numbers from a photo.
Florida Pays You Back
Florida’s incentives stack, but only if your door and windows carry the right paperwork. The My Safe Florida Home program offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades including impact-rated doors. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax, which knocks 6 to 7 percent off the bill at purchase. On the federal side, the 25C energy credit allows up to $600 per year for qualifying efficient door units. And after a wind-mitigation inspection, which runs about $75 to $150 in our market, many carriers will reduce the windstorm portion of your premium. Some Pembroke Park homeowners report savings around 25 percent on that line item. We will hand you the Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval numbers for your exact door configuration so you can file for what you are owed. Your carrier sets the final credit, not us, but we make sure the paperwork is real.
Crew Notes From the Field: The Lake Forest Door
In the Lake Forest mobile home park, our crew pulled a front entry door where the original aluminum jamb had corroded so deeply you could see daylight through the threshold corner. The hinges were seized, and the deadbolt had stripped the jamb backing. Salt air had been working on that door for years, and the final hurricane season finished it. We specified a PGT impact-rated door with stainless steel hinges and a marine-grade finish. We anchored it through the wall system into the manufactured home’s steel chassis to meet Miami-Dade NOA design pressure for large-missile impact, then sealed every joint against driven rain. That door will outlast the siding around it.
That vignette is not a one-off either. We see it in Lake Forest, in Park Lake Estates, and along the mobile home communities west of US 441. The pattern is always the same: cheap hardware plus unsealed joints plus salt air equals premature failure. We replace those doors with the marine-grade, HVHZ-rated combination from the start.
Common Door Problems Pembroke Park Homeowners Ask About
Do manufactured home doors in Pembroke Park need Miami-Dade NOA approval if they’re only 40 inches wide?
Yes. Miami-Dade NOA applies to the entire opening, not a threshold width. A 40-inch manufactured home exterior door still must carry a current Florida Product Approval or Miami-Dade NOA for the design pressure at your location in Pembroke Park’s wind zone. The width does not exempt it. Call (850) 998-3090 if you want us to pull the exact NOA for your opening size.
Why do door hinges corrode faster in Pembroke Park than in inland Broward County?
Pembroke Park sits close enough to the Atlantic that salt-laden humidity travels miles inland and deposits on exposed metal. Uncoated steel hinges and hardware oxidize within a few hurricane seasons. We see it on almost every original door in the older mobile home communities. The fix is stainless steel hinges and marine-grade hardware, which we specify on every exterior door we install in Pembroke Park.
Can I replace a jalousie door with a hurricane impact door without changing the rough opening?
Usually no. Jalousie doors have narrow, louvered openings that do not match modern impact door slabs, and the framing around them is often thin. You will likely need the rough opening reframed and resized. We handle that reframing as part of the installation, and we pull any permit that applies. It is not a swap. It is a real installation.
What is the difference between a standard Therma-Tru door and one rated for HVHZ in Pembroke Park?
A standard Therma-Tru door is built for typical residential use. An HVHZ-rated unit adds impact-rated glass (if the door has glass), heavier reinforcement in the slab and frame, and a Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval showing it passed large-missile impact and cyclic wind testing. In Pembroke Park’s wind zone, that rating is not optional for permitted exterior door work.
Will replacing my mobile home’s front door with an impact rated unit reduce my windstorm insurance premium?
Possibly, but only your carrier can set the final number. After a wind-mitigation inspection, many insurers offer premium credits on the windstorm portion. The door must carry the right NOA or Florida Product Approval, and the anchoring must be documented. We provide the approval documents and photos of the anchoring once the job is done so you can submit them to your insurer. Call (850) 998-3090 for a free inspection to see what your current door is actually rated for.
We Also Serve Cities Near Pembroke Park
Our Pembroke Park door installation crews also work throughout North Dade and South Broward. If you live in Hialeah, Miami, Miami Beach, or Pembroke Pines, we can schedule your door measure and install on the same routes we run to Pembroke Park every week. You get the same live 24/7 phone answer, the same written quote, and the same Ed Winslow standard, whether you’re off Hallandale Beach Boulevard or across the county line.
Serving Pembroke Park, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Pembroke Park 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 Pembroke Park
We schedule Pembroke Park jobs every week, and once your door arrives from the manufacturer, most single-door installations are finished in one day. Custom-fabricated doors run four to six weeks from order to install. If you are in Pembroke Park and need a measure, call (850) 998-3090 and we will get you on the schedule.
Yes. We install in Lake Forest, Park Lake Estates, the communities along Hallandale Beach Boulevard and Pembroke Road, and the older single-family streets throughout Pembroke Park. The manufactured home angle is not a problem for us. It’s the bulk of what we do in this town.
Yes. If a break-in, a storm, or corrosion has left your door unusable, call (850) 998-3090 and a live person answers any hour. We can secure the opening and order the replacement. Emergency board-up and temporary securing is something we handle directly.
Labor rates are comparable across South Broward and North Dade. The difference in Pembroke Park is the manufactured home factor: HUD-standard impact doors are specialty units and often cost slightly more than stock residential doors. But anchoring and sealing properly the first time is cheaper than a door that fails and rots the rough opening over five years. We price honest from the start.
Every door we install in Pembroke Park carries our Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we come back and make it right. No expiration date games. On top of that, the manufacturers carry their own warranties on the door slab and glass. We walk you through what is covered before you sign anything.
Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving Pembroke Park and South Florida with door installation, impact windows, and roofing since 2011.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose Winslow 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.