When your door is past repair, rusted bottom from a flood, splitting wood from the humidity, hurricane-warped frame, we install new from Clopay, Wayne Dalton, Amarr, and Haas. Insulated steel, hurricane-rated options, custom carriage styles. We will walk you through panel style, wind-rating, insulation, and opener pairing so the new door fits the house and the budget.
New door installation pricing: Standard 16-foot insulated steel door installed runs $1,600 to $2,800. A 9-foot single is $1,000 to $1,700. Custom wood or full-view aluminum is $3,200 to $5,800+. Hurricane-rated (Wind Code Texas / IBHS FORTIFIED) adds $400 to $900. Includes door, tracks, rollers, weatherstripping, and haul-away. Free in-home measurement and quote.
The garage door is the largest opening on most Houston homes and the single most common structural failure point in a hurricane. When a garage door blows inward under wind load, the house pressurizes from the inside, and that pressure can push the roof off, most catastrophic hurricane home losses start at the garage door. Wind Code Texas and IBHS FORTIFIED ratings certify a door to withstand specific wind-pressure loads (usually 130-150 mph design wind speed for the Houston region). Some post-Harvey HOA covenants in Friendswood, Pearland, Sugar Land, and parts of Katy now require a rated door on any new install. Even where it is optional, the $400 to $900 premium frequently pays back through a homeowners-insurance windstorm-mitigation discount. We carry the wind-load certification paperwork your insurer will want.
Up north, garage door insulation is about keeping heat in. In Houston it is the reverse, keeping the brutal summer heat out of the conditioned space. An R-12 to R-18 insulated door on a west-facing attached garage can drop the adjacent room temperature by 8-12 degrees in August and meaningfully cut the AC load. For an attached garage with a bedroom or living space next to or above it, insulation pays for itself in cooling savings. For a detached workshop with no climate concern, save the $200 to $400 and go non-insulated.
It starts with a free in-home measurement, door opening width and height, headroom, side room, and whether your opener will pair with the new door. We bring sample panels and color chips so you can see the options against your house in daylight. Once you pick, we order (5-10 business days for stock, 2-4 weeks for custom or hurricane-rated). On install day we remove the old door and tracks, install the new tracks and hardware, hang the panels, fit the weatherstripping (we warm the rubber so it seats cleanly in Houston heat), wind the springs to match the new door's weight, balance it, pair the opener, and haul away the old door. Standard single-door installs finish in 3-4 hours; we always work in daylight and never leave an opening exposed overnight.
A standard 16-foot insulated steel door installed, with old door hauled away, usually runs $1,600 to $2,800. A 9-foot single is $1,000 to $1,700. Custom wood or full-view aluminum jumps to $3,200 to $5,800 or higher depending on glass and hardware. Hurricane-rated (Wind Code Texas) doors add roughly $400 to $900 over the equivalent standard model. Those numbers include the door, tracks, new rollers, weatherstripping, and disposal. They do not include a new opener.
It depends on where you live and your HOA covenants. The garage door is the largest opening on most homes and the most common failure point in a hurricane, if it blows in, wind pressurizes the house and can lift the roof. Some post-Harvey HOA covenants in Friendswood, Pearland, Sugar Land, and parts of Katy now require Wind Code Texas or IBHS FORTIFIED-rated doors on new installs. Even where not required, a wind-rated door is worth the $400 to $900 premium if you are in a flood/wind zone, and it often earns a homeowners-insurance discount that pays back the upgrade in a few years. We know which subdivisions require what.
For an attached garage with living space above or beside it, R-12 to R-18 is the sweet spot in Houston. The point is not winter heat retention (like up north), it is keeping the August attic-and-garage heat from radiating into the conditioned space and overworking your AC. A well-insulated door in a west-facing Houston garage can drop the adjacent room temperature by 8-12 degrees in summer. For a detached garage or workshop with no climate concern, a non-insulated door saves $200 to $400 and is fine.
A standard single-door swap (remove old, install new, new tracks and hardware, balance, test) runs 3-4 hours. A double-door or two-door job runs most of a day. Custom wood and carriage-style installs with specialty hardware can run a full day. We schedule installs for the morning so we finish in daylight, and we never leave a garage opening exposed overnight. During an active named storm in the Gulf, we suspend installs, an open garage during a storm is the wrong move.
Clopay, Wayne Dalton, Amarr, and Haas, in that rough order of what we install most in Houston. Clopay is the volume leader (widest color and style range, strong wind-rated lineup). Amarr's Classica and Heritage carriage lines are popular in The Woodlands and Sugar Land's higher-end neighborhoods. Haas 920 is common in newer Katy and Cross Creek Ranch construction. Wayne Dalton's fiberglass 9700 resists the Gulf humidity well and does not rust, which makes it a strong pick for Pearland and Bay-coastal homes.
Often, yes. Texas homeowners insurers commonly offer a windstorm-mitigation discount for IBHS FORTIFIED or Wind Code Texas-rated garage doors in coastal and near-coastal counties (which includes most of Harris, Fort Bend, Galveston, and Brazoria). The discount varies by carrier but usually runs 5-15% off the wind portion of the premium. We provide the manufacturer's wind-load certification document you submit to your carrier. Over the life of the door, the discount frequently covers the $400 to $900 rating premium.
