Door Replacement Cost in Berks County: Front, Storm, Patio

Most homeowners pay $547 to $2,375 for a new front or other exterior door installed, $187 to $683 for a storm door, and $1,550 to $6,250 for a patio door, sliding or French, going by the national guides. Berks installers quote after they've seen your opening, so your own number comes from a visit, and the county windows and doors page is where you pick who to call.

These are one national cost guide's "most homeowners pay" ranges for each kind of door, installed, as of 2026.

Door	What most homeowners pay, installed	Average
Front or other exterior door	$547 to $2,375	$1,457
Storm door	$187 to $683	$435
Patio door, sliding or French	$1,550 to $6,250	$2,500

What does a new front door cost installed, and what does the door itself cost?

Labor is about 30 to 35 percent of an installed price, and installers charge $30 to $90 an hour for it. A new door frame is $130 to $380 and hardware is $10 to $200 a door. Sidelights, the narrow fixed windows beside a front door, add $1,600 to $4,600.

Another of the guides puts a single entry door at $975 to $1,773 installed, a job of three to seven hours. Replacing an old door costs a few hundred dollars more than you'd pay if you were just installing a new door, because the old one has to come out and get hauled away. And a single door is generally about half the price of a double or French door in the same material.

Door only, not installed, the four common materials run like this:

• Steel, $150 to $1,400. Starts at the same $150 as fiberglass.
• Fiberglass, $150 to $3,000. Made to look like wood without wood's upkeep.
• Wood, $500 to $3,000. Starts higher than steel or fiberglass.
• Wrought iron, $1,500 to $13,000. A custom price class.

A slab is the door alone, no frame. A prehung door comes already hung on its hinges in a new frame with the threshold, and a new frame comes with the job when the new door is a different size from the old one. A sticking front door can be the door, the hinges or the frame, and the quote visit settles which.

What does a storm door cost?

The price moves with how much glass the door has and whether the screen is built in. By type, a mid-view storm door, glass on the top half or so, is $160 to $300. A full-view storm door, glass from top to bottom, is $200 to $525. A retractable-screen door, where the screen rolls away into the frame, is $250 to $600, and a double storm door is $600 to $1,100.

What does a patio or sliding door cost?

With installation, a sliding door is $1,000 to $3,000, French doors are $400 to $4,000, a telescoping door, a multi-panel slider, is $1,500 to $5,000, and folding glass doors are $3,000 to $10,000. Labor alone is $400 to $1,400.

If your slider just won't slide, the FAQ below covers the smaller fixes.

Is there a tax credit or utility rebate for a new door?

The federal tax credit that paid up to $250 per exterior door, $500 total, is over. It isn't allowed for any property placed in service, meaning installed, after December 31, 2025, so a door that goes in this year earns no federal credit.

The ENERGY STAR label still tells you how tight a door is, credit or no credit. The number behind it is the U-factor on the sticker, which says how fast heat passes through the door; lower is tighter. How low it has to be to carry the ENERGY STAR label depends on how much glass the door has: a door with no glass has to be certified at 0.17 or lower, a door with up to half glass at 0.23 or lower, and a door with more than half glass at 0.26 or lower.

What about the utilities? PPL's rebate list covers insulation and air sealing, not doors, and UGI's covers furnaces, boilers, water heaters and thermostats, not doors. Met-Ed names door repair or replacement and storm doors only in the weatherization program it runs for income-qualified households, as work it installs rather than a rebate you apply for. So if your household qualifies by income, ask Met-Ed about that program; everyone else, check your utility's page when you buy.

Do you need a permit, and what belongs in the contract?

Swapping a door in its existing opening needs no state building permit. The state building code doesn't apply to "alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress", the ways out of the house, and it says "a structural change does not include a minor framing change needed to replace existing windows or doors". Your township or borough can still require its own permit, and whether you need a permit in your town walks through that. Widening the opening or cutting a new one is a different job.

Pennsylvania's home improvement contractor law covers any job over $500 and lists "doors and windows" by name, so its rules apply to your door. Your installer has to be registered with the state; the registration number starts with PA and goes in the contract along with the law's required terms; how to verify a contractor's registration takes about a minute. On a job over $5,000 the deposit can't be more than one-third of the price, plus the cost of any special-order materials the contract lists separately. And you get three business days to cancel after signing, wherever you signed; Pennsylvania's deposit and three-day rules has the details. The quote should list:

• Which door (entry, storm, patio or sliding) and its size.
• Slab or prehung.
• Material and how much glass.
• Sidelights or not.
• Lockset, hardware, threshold and weatherstripping.
• Finish or paint.
• Removal and disposal of the old door.
• The warranty, split into the manufacturer's part and the installer's part.
• The contractor's PA registration number.
• The deposit, capped at a third on a job over $5,000.

Who installs doors in Berks County, and how do you pick?

Install America in Mohnton has been in business since 1955 and installs fiberglass, steel and glass entry doors, along with patio doors. It backs its entry doors and the installation with a transferable lifetime warranty on the door slab, and offers free estimates and financing at 0 percent interest for 12 months.

Hahn Exteriors in Laureldale has served Berks County since 1994 and fits fiberglass and steel entry door systems and sliding and French patio doors, with free estimates across Berks County. It quotes after a visit.

AJ Window and Door Solutions in Shoemakersville has served Berks County since 2009 and installs steel entry doors, fiberglass doors, French doors, sliding patio doors and storm doors, with no-obligation free quotes that it says are good for a year.

Here's what I'd do tonight. Write one paragraph describing the door you want, or what the one you have does wrong: which door, material, how much glass, sidelights or not. Send it to three installers from the county windows and doors page, then line the quotes up item by item the way how to compare contractor quotes shows. Call tomorrow; the first cold night won't wait.

Frequently asked questions about door replacement in Berks County.

Can a sliding door that won't slide be repaired instead of replaced?

Often, yes. A sticking slider can be the rollers and track rather than the door, and the installer who comes to quote tells you which; ask for a repair quote and a replacement quote, both in writing. If the door does have to go, replacing it in its existing opening runs $700 to $2,400, with removal of the old door and any frame work extra, and replacing a single glass panel $400 to $700.

Is a sticking screen door the same job?

No. A patio screen door that sticks or a storm-door screen that's torn is a screen repair, not a door replacement. Window Screen Repair PA is a mobile service that covers all of Berks County and prints its prices: a hinged screen door repair is $95 to $145, a sliding patio screen door is $125 to $185 (rollers extra if needed) and a retractable screen door is $580 to $650, plus a $150 mobile service fee, with labor and standard mesh included, so the smallest job comes to about $245 all in.

Does a front door in one of Reading's historic districts need extra approval?

The Historical Architectural Review Board reviews "all proposed exterior alterations ... visible from a public right-of-way", anything you can see from the street or alley, in the Callowhill, Centre Park, Penn's Common and Prince historic districts and the Heights Conservation District. So a street-facing front door there needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, which you apply for at the Historic Preservation Office; the office can approve certain in-kind work itself, and the rest goes to the board at its monthly meeting. The office is at City Hall, 815 Washington Street, (610) 655-6414; the board meets the third Tuesday, and the application goes to the office ten working days before the meeting. Call the office before you sign anything.

Can you still claim the old tax credit for a door you already installed?

If the door met the ENERGY STAR test and was placed in service in 2025, yes, with one more condition for that year: no credit is allowed unless the item was produced by a qualified manufacturer and you report its Qualified Manufacturer Identification Number on the return, and the credit was for your main home, not a rental. You can still put it on an amended 2025 return, generally within three years of filing the original. The credit covered the door, never the labor.

Sources

• HomeAdvisor, "How Much Does Exterior Door Installation Cost?" (updated June 20, 2026): the $547 to $2,375 range and $1,457 average, the door-only material ranges, the frame, labor, sidelight and hardware figures.
• HomeAdvisor, "How Much Does a Storm Door Cost?" (updated June 19, 2026): the $187 to $683 range and $435 average, the $100 to $1,800 spread, the materials and labor split and the prices by type.
• HomeAdvisor, "How Much Does Patio Door Replacement Cost?" (updated June 17, 2026): the $1,550 to $6,250 range and $2,500 average, the with-installation ranges by type and material, and the labor figure.
• HomeAdvisor, "How Much Does It Cost to Install a Door?" (updated June 20, 2026): prehung versus slab.
• Fixr, "How Much Does It Cost to Install an Entry Door?" (updated January 31, 2025): the $975 to $1,773 range and $1,353 average for a single entry door, the labor and hours, and the single-versus-double door comparison.
• Fixr, "How Much Does It Cost to Install a Sliding Patio Door?" (updated January 31, 2025): replacing an existing sliding door $700 to $2,400, a panel $400 to $700, a new opening $1,500 to $5,000.
• Install America, Entry Doors: entry and patio doors, the transferable lifetime warranty, free estimates; financing (0 percent for 12 months) from its About and home pages, since 1955 from its About page.
• AJ Window and Door Solutions, Exterior Doors: steel, fiberglass, French, sliding patio and storm doors, Berks County since 2009, free quotes good for a year.
• Hahn Exteriors, Door Installation: fiberglass and steel entry door systems, sliding and French patio doors, free estimates, since 1994.
• Window Screen Repair PA, Pricing: the screen door repair prices (read 2026-10-12) and the $150 mobile service fee.
• EPA ENERGY STAR, Residential Windows, Doors and Skylights Eligibility Criteria, Version 7.0 (effective October 23, 2023): the door U-factor thresholds by amount of glass.
• IRS, FS-2025-05, FAQs for modification of sections 25C and others under Public Law 119-21 (August 21, 2025): "The credit will not be allowed for any property placed in service after December 31, 2025."
• IRS, "Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit" (last reviewed April 28, 2026): the $250 per door and $500 total limits, the 2025 qualified-manufacturer condition, the main-home rule and the exclusion of labor.
• IRS, Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit FAQ, Timing of credits: the amended-return window.
• PPL Electric Utilities rebate catalog: no door rebate.
• UGI, Rebates for Home: no door rebate.
• FirstEnergy Pennsylvania (Met-Ed), Phase V Energy Efficiency and Conservation Plan, June 2026 to May 2031 (revised April 15, 2026), Table 9: "Door Repair or Replacement" and "Storm Windows & Doors" among the income-qualified WARM measures.
• 34 Pa. Code § 403.1(b)(8), Uniform Construction Code scope: "a structural change does not include a minor framing change needed to replace existing windows or doors."
• Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act FAQ: "doors and windows" in the law's definition, the $500 threshold, registration, the deposit cap and the three-day right to cancel.
• City of Reading, Historical Preservation (live page): the Historic Preservation office, the HARB process, Certificates of Appropriateness and the office phone.
• City of Reading, Historical Architectural Review Board page (archived November 2019): the review of exterior alterations visible from a public right-of-way in the four historic districts and the conservation district.
• City of Reading, Certificate of Appropriateness application (revised 2024, archived 2025): the Historic Preservation Office address, phone, third-Tuesday meetings and ten-working-day deadline; the officer's approval of certain in-kind work is from the archived 2016 FAQ.