New windows and doors improve comfort, cut energy bills and add long-term value to your home. Hale Windows San Antonio pairs proven product lines with our own installing crews for lasting performance - and a price we put in writing.
Choose your installer
The unit is half the job - the install is the other half. Our own background-checked crews measure, set, seal and insulate every opening, and they know the lines we quote inside and out because they install them every week.
Select the right products
Compare styles, materials and glass packages side by side until the fit is right for your rooms, your budget and your goals. The product-line comparison below is the place to start.
Prepare your home for install
Before install day we walk you through a short checklist - furniture pulled back, treatments down, a clear path to each opening - so install day is watch-it-happen, not scramble.
Compare the Lines We Quote
Every project is priced on the same lines, side by side - the price indicators below are relative, and your consultant shows exact numbers on your actual openings.
PGTThe line homeowners arrive naming - the most impact certifications in the industry$$$
- More impact certifications than any other line we quote
- WinGuard, EnergyVue and ClassicVue Max systems built for every wind zone
- 99% on-time delivery keeps your install date on the calendar
CGIThe heavyweight impact line$$$$$
- Large-missile impact ratings for the strictest wind zones
- Architectural-grade aluminum with commercial-depth frames
- The line we quote when protection is the whole point
CWSThe value pick$$
- Vinyl systems built to strict wind codes
- Strong energy packages at the friendliest price point
- The smart start for whole-home replacements on a budget
ESWSlim lines, big glass$$$$
- Narrow-sightline aluminum for modern elevations
- Oversized openings and floor-to-ceiling glass
- Impact-rated without the bunker look
ECOThe aluminum impact workhorse$$$
- Factory-built aluminum impact systems
- A strong price-to-protection ratio for coastal homes
- Proven inventory lines with short lead times
Fast, Reliable Front Door Replacement Across San Antonio
A front door replacement in San Antonio typically costs between $1,800 and $4,200 for a mid-grade steel or fiberglass door installed, and takes one to two days once the old door comes out. We serve the entire San Antonio metro, from King William to Stone Oak to Alamo Ranch, with crews that know the city’s housing stock cold. If you live in San Antonio and your front door is sticking, warping, or letting in the July heat, call (361) 348-8929 for a free, written estimate before any work begins.
Why Hale Windows San Antonio Is San Antonio’s Preferred Front Door Replacement Company
We’re independently owned and operated, part of the Threshold Group family of home-service brands, and we’ve been doing doors and windows since 2009. Spencer Odell leads the San Antonio team, and he holds every installer to the Threshold Standard: background-checked, identity-verified, uniformed, photo-badged, and pre-announced to you by name and photo before the visit. You’ll know exactly who is walking up your sidewalk before you open the door.
San Antonio homeowners consistently tell us the same thing after we finish a front door replacement: they were surprised how much time we spent getting the rough opening square before the new door went in. That’s not an accident. In this city, with its expansive clay soils and shifting foundations, a door that drops into a standard opening without custom shims will bind within a season or two. We’d rather spend an extra hour on the jamb than give you a door that sticks shut in August.
We don’t do bait-and-switch pricing. The written price we hand you before work starts is the price you pay. If the work isn’t done right, our 365-Day Done Right Promise means we make it right, no argument. And when you call (361) 348-8929, a live person answers. Every time.
Entry Door Replacement in San Antonio
Entry Door Replacement in San Antonio means swapping out the front-facing door that guests, delivery drivers, and you pass through every single day. The front door is the first line of defense for security, the first thing people see from the street, and in San Antonio specifically, it’s the number one place exterior heat finds its way in. A quality entry door replacement here runs $2,800 to $4,200 on average, depending on whether you choose steel, fiberglass, or a wood-look composite from a line like Therma-Tru. That price includes tear-out, disposal, frame and jamb work, new weatherstripping, and a properly flashed sill pan.
What pushes that number up in San Antonio is the condition of the opening itself. Homes built before 1980 often have rough openings that are out of square, sometimes by half an inch or more. We custom-shim every jamb, and we won’t install a door over a rotted sill plate. If we find one, we price the repair in writing and get your approval before picking up a single tool.
Front Door Materials and Trim Packages
Most San Antonio homeowners choose fiberglass for the front door because it won’t warp in the humidity and holds a factory finish for years. Steel remains the budget-conscious workhorse, starting around $1,800 installed. If you’re in a historic district like Monte Vista or King William, we can source wood and wood-clad doors through the brands we carry, but expect the preservation review to influence material and color choices. We walk you through that process rather than leaving you to decode the city’s paperwork alone.
Glass and Sidelight Installations
Plenty of San Antonio homes have front entryways with one or two sidelights flanking the door. If those sidelights are original single-pane glass from the 1960s or 1970s, they are a solar oven during a San Antonio summer. We often replace the door and sidelights together, using low-E glass (a thin coating that blocks heat while letting light through). For homes with full west-facing front exposure, we recommend impact-rated glazing from PGT or CGI, not because you’re in a hurricane evacuation zone, but because San Antonio hail and afternoon sun are hard on ordinary glass.
Exterior Door Replacement in San Antonio
Exterior Door Replacement in San Antonio covers any outward-facing door that isn’t the main entry: think back doors, garage access doors, and patio doors. These get less decorative attention but equal abuse from the elements. A basic exterior door replacement in San Antonio ranges from $1,200 to $2,800 installed, with fiberglass and steel again dominating the market. The job means removing the old door, inspecting the jamb and sill for rot or termite damage, shimming the new door true, and sealing the threshold properly against both rain and the local clay soil’s seasonal movement.
What most people don’t think about with a back door in San Antonio is ventilation and air sealing. The back door is the one that gets propped open or slammed shut most often, and in a humid climate like ours, a worn-out jamb on the back of the house means moisture is moving into the wall cavity every time it rains. We fix that at the root.
Back and Garage Door Replacements
Garage access doors are a frequent project for us in San Antonio. They usually face an unconditioned garage, so the door itself matters less for thermal performance and more for structure. But if your garage access door is on the south or west side of the house, the afternoon sun will bake a hollow-core wood door until it looks like a potato chip. We’ll steer you toward fiberglass or an insulated steel core, and we’ll talk about the threshold rise needed to keep water out during San Antonio’s heaviest downpours.
Patio Door Frame Repair and Replacement
Sometimes the issue isn’t the door slab at all; it’s the frame that the patio door hangs on. Clay soil movement over decades leaves the frame racked, and no new door will sit right until that frame is corrected. We handle frame repair and full replacement on exterior patio doors throughout San Antonio, and we always check that the header above the opening hasn’t sagged before we commit to installing the new unit.
Trusted Brands We Service in San Antonio
We install and service front doors and exterior doors from eight professional-grade lines, but around San Antonio we most often specify Therma-Tru for fiberglass entry systems, ViewLux for high-end modern door packages, and PGT or CGI for impact-rated glass and door units. Because we stock parts and hardware locally for San Antonio customers, a missing hinge pin, a failed multipoint lock, or a scratched door slab doesn’t mean waiting two weeks on a factory order. It usually means we’re back at your house within a few days, repair done. That’s the difference between working with a specialist and a general contractor who subs out every piece of the job.
Common Front Door Replacement Problems We See in San Antonio Homes
- Doors out of square due to clay soil movement. San Antonio’s expansive clay soils expand when wet and shrink when dry, and over 50 or 60 years that movement racks door frames out of square by a quarter inch or more. A generic drop-in door will bind in the frame; we custom-shim every jamb before hanging the new slab.
- Rotted sill plates and threshold water intrusion. Older San Antonio homes, especially wood-frame houses from the 1920s and 1930s, often have sill plates that have been quietly rotting for decades. When we pull the old door, we inspect the full length of the sill, replace what’s bad, and install a properly flashed sill pan before the new door goes in.
- UV-degraded weatherstripping and seal failure. The sun in San Antonio eats through standard weatherstripping fast. Doors on west-facing exposures lose their seal in as little as three or four years, which is why we use compression seals rated for high-UV environments and check the alignment every time we service a door.
- Undersized headers over old openings. If your home predates the mid-1980s, there’s a real chance the original header over the front door is undersized by today’s code. When that’s the case and we’re permitted to open the wall, we price the structural fix in writing and get your approval before touching it. No surprises, no vague change orders.
Pricing for Front Door Replacement in San Antonio, TX
Here’s what you can expect to pay in the San Antonio market for a front door replacement, including labor, materials, and standard framing work:
- Basic steel front door, slab only, standard size: $1,800 – $2,600
- Fiberglass front door with factory finish and standard trim: $2,800 – $4,200
- Premium entry system with sidelights and decorative glass: $4,500 – $8,000+
- Exterior side or back door replacement: $1,200 – $2,800
- Rotted sill or jamb repair (if discovered during install): $350 – $900 added to base price
- Permit fees and HOA or historic review costs: passed through at cost, itemized on your written estimate
What moves the price is the condition of the opening, not a salesman’s mood. We inspect, we write the full price down, and you approve it before we start. Call (361) 348-8929 for a free, no-pressure estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near San Antonio
Beyond San Antonio proper, our crews regularly work in Universal City, Cibolo, Bulverde, and Boerne. Some of those towns sit on limestone rather than clay, which actually makes the framing work simpler; San Antonio’s soil conditions are their own animal. If you’re searching for Front Door Replacement in San Antonio or just need a door replaced in a neighboring community, we cover it.
Serving San Antonio, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the San Antonio 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 About Front Door Replacement in San Antonio
Yes, it will. Monte Vista, King William, and several other San Antonio historic districts require city review before a front door replacement, and the review covers material, color, and sometimes the door’s profile. We handle the paperwork, and we’ll steer you toward options that pass the first time. Call (361) 348-8929 and we’ll tell you exactly what your district requires before you sign anything.
In most San Antonio ranch homes it’s both. The clay soil under the slab expands in wet months and contracts in dry ones, which moves the door frame slightly. That movement plus an original door jamb that was never perfectly square means you get a door that sticks in summer and swings loose in winter. The fix is custom shimming and jamb adjustment during replacement, which is standard on every door we install in San Antonio. We’d rather correct the opening than force a new door into a frame that’s working against it.
No, you don’t need it for hurricane code compliance. But if your front door has glass and it faces west or southwest, impact-rated glazing from PGT or CGI is worth considering. San Antonio hail can crack standard decorative glass, and the afternoon sun here is brutal on door finishes and seals. The impact-rated glass also improves security and sound dampening. We’ll show you the cost difference on a written line-item estimate and let you decide.
Limestone homes in neighborhoods like King William and Alta Vista hold moisture differently than wood-frame houses, so the flashing details matter more. We remove the old threshold and inspect the masonry sill underneath. Then we install a modern sill pan with upturned ends and backdamp, bedded properly against the limestone, before the new door frame goes in. If the stone itself is spalled or cracked, we price that repair separately and in writing. Water damage is the one thing you don’t want to find years after a new door goes in.
That heat is radiant energy from the San Antonio sun being absorbed by a dark factory finish on the door skin. The door is doing its job; it’s the finish color and sometimes the lack of a storm or screen door that makes it feel like a radiator. We can replace the slab with a lighter-toned finish, add a UV-protective clear coat, or install an awning or storm door to shade the entry. Call (361) 348-8929 and we’ll come look at your specific exposure, at no cost to you.
Written by Spencer Odell, Owner at Hale Windows San Antonio, serving San Antonio since 2009 with doors and windows built for Texas heat and clay soil.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose Hale Windows San Antonio
Laminated glass and reinforced frames hold up to wind-driven rain, hail and flying debris, so your openings stay sealed when the weather turns.
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.
Tighter seals and insulated glass even out hot and cold rooms and stop the drafts at the frame.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.