Door Installation Philadelphia & Trim Work

Doors price per opening, which makes them one of the easier jobs to compare quotes on — as long as you are comparing the same thing. An interior prehung door in a square opening is straightforward. An exterior door, or an opening in an older rowhome where the frame has racked and has to be rebuilt, is more work before the door ever goes in. We measure every opening at the walkthrough and price them individually, so you can see which doors are driving the total.

Doors and trim are the fastest service we run, which is exactly why they are worth adding to a project already on the calendar rather than booking as a separate visit. What extends the timeline is not the hanging, it is the openings that turn out to be out of square and need shimming or a rebuilt frame, plus paint and finish time afterwards if you want them finished. You get the schedule in writing before we start.

Yes, both. Interior doors — prehung, slab, closet, pocket and French — and exterior entry, back and patio doors in steel, fiberglass or wood. The two jobs are not the same: an interior door has to swing and latch cleanly, while an exterior door also has to seal against weather at four points and carry the security hardware. We fit each accordingly rather than treating a door as a door.

Yes, interior and exterior. French doors are less forgiving than a single door because two leaves have to meet cleanly along their full height — which means the opening has to be genuinely square and plumb, not close enough. In an older Philadelphia home that usually means correcting or rebuilding the opening first. We check the opening before quoting and tell you upfront if that work is needed, so the price does not move after we start.

Yes — door casing, window casing, baseboards, shoe moulding, chair rail and crown moulding. In older Philadelphia homes matching an existing profile matters as much as the installation, because new trim beside original trim in a different profile reads wrong immediately even to someone who cannot say why. We match profiles where you are extending existing work and scribe to the wall where plaster has moved, which is most walls in a house of that age.

Yes. We prime, fill, caulk and paint or stain the doors and trim as part of the same job, using our own painting crew. That matters more than it sounds: caulking the gap between casing and wall and filling the nail holes is what makes new trim look built-in instead of nailed on, and it is the step most often skipped when the carpenter and the painter are two different contractors on two different schedules.

It can, but only if the installation seals the whole opening. An old exterior door leaks air at four places: the threshold, both jambs, the head, and the door itself if the core has failed. Replacing the slab alone fixes the look and none of the draft. We air-seal the rough opening, set the threshold properly to the sill and adjust the weatherstripping under compression — the parts of the job you never see and always feel in February.