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Door installation Toronto: hung true, sealed tight, done in a day
You know the feeling. The front door sticks every morning. Cold air slips under it all winter. The lock only catches if you lift the handle just right. Every time you leave the house, a small part of you wonders if that door would stop anyone at all.
A new door fixes all of that in one day. It closes with a solid click. It seals out the cold. It makes the whole front of your house look 10 years newer. And it starts working for you the moment the crew drives away.
Our team reaches out with pricing, usually within 1 business day.
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$2M liability insurance
Current and verifiable, on every crew that installs with us.
WSIB coverage
For every crew member who sets foot on your property.
Written workmanship warranty
On the installation itself, separate from the manufacturer's.
Free written quotes
No cost, no obligation, and no sales theatre. Ever.
How it works
Three steps between you and a door that just works
Anyone can list “doors” on a website. What you actually want is the crew that shows up on time, measures twice, and stands behind the work. That is the only kind of crew that installs a Drafty project.
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Tell us about your door
Entry door, patio door, or interior doors. Replacement or brand new opening. It takes about 60 seconds on our quote form. No credit card, no commitment, no cost to you.
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We measure and price it
Your opening gets measured in person and you get one written quote, priced against the honest 2026 ranges on this page. Every crew behind a Drafty quote has already shown proof of licensing, insurance, and a written workmanship warranty.
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You decide, we install
You get your questions answered and a real number in writing. If the price or the fit is wrong, you walk away and it costs you nothing. If it is right, install day gets booked.
That is the whole process. No 3 hour sales presentations, no “today only” pricing, and no gambling on a search for “door installation near me” and hoping.
The honest checklist
Signs it is time to replace a door
Doors rarely fail all at once. They fade slowly, and you adapt without noticing. Here is the honest checklist. If 2 or more of these sound like your house, the door is past saving:
You feel a draft near the door in winter. Hold a hand near the edges on a cold day. Moving air means failed seals.
You see daylight around the frame. Light gets through, so cold and bugs do too.
The door sticks, drags, or needs a shove. The slab or frame has warped or shifted.
The lock does not catch unless you lift or pull. That is a security problem, not a quirk.
There is rot, rust, or peeling at the bottom. Water has been getting in for a while.
Condensation forms between glass panes. The sealed unit has failed and will not recover.
Your entry hallway is noticeably colder than the rest of the house.
The door is original to a home built before 1990. Even if it works, it wastes heat every day.
Weatherstripping and a fresh coat of paint can buy a tired door a year or two. They cannot fix a warped slab, a rotted frame, or a dead glass seal.
At that point, repair money is rent. Replacement money is equity.
Entry doors
Front door installation
Your front door is the handshake of your house. Guests judge the whole home by it. Buyers do too. And you use it more than any other door you own, thousands of times a year.
Front door installation in Toronto usually means replacing an entry door that is 20 to 40 years old. The old unit leaks air, the finish is faded, and the frame may be soft at the bottom corners. A proper replacement swaps the door, the frame, and the weatherstripping as one sealed system.
You have 3 main material choices
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Steel entry doors
Steel is the workhorse. It resists forced entry, insulates well, and costs the least of the 3 options. A supplied and installed steel entry door in Toronto typically runs $1,500 to $3,500. The trade-off: steel can dent, and deep scratches need touch-ups to prevent rust.
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Fiberglass entry doors
Fiberglass is the sweet spot for most Toronto homeowners. It handles our freeze-thaw winters without warping, never rusts, and can mimic a wood grain finish so well most people cannot tell. Expect roughly $2,500 to $6,000 supplied and installed, depending on the glass inserts and hardware.
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Wood entry doors
Solid wood looks and feels the most premium, and nothing else swings quite like it. It also demands the most care. Toronto humidity swings make wood move, so it needs refinishing every few years. Budget $4,000 and up for a quality wood entry door, installed.
Configurations: single doors, sidelights, and double doors
The opening you have (or want) shapes the price as much as the material does:
Single front doors fit the standard 36 inch opening in most Toronto homes. This is the most affordable route.
Single doors with sidelights add narrow glass panels on one or both sides. You get more daylight in the hallway and a wider, grander look. Sidelights typically add $800 to $2,500.
Double front doors suit wider openings and larger homes. Two operating slabs, more hardware, more sealing. Most double door projects land between $5,000 and $12,000 installed.
Not sure which fits your opening? That is exactly what the free measure is for.
Request a quote and your rough opening size gets confirmed before you spend a dollar.
Cold, water, and time
Exterior door installation in Toronto
Every exterior door in this city fights the same 3 enemies: cold, water, and time. Exterior door installation done right is less about the door and more about the seal around it.
Skip any of those steps and you feel it by January. Drafts, frost on the inside of the frame, and heating dollars leaking into the street.
A good installer in Toronto will
Square and shim the frame so the door swings true, even in a 100 year old house where nothing is level
Insulate the gap between frame and rough opening with low expansion foam
Flash and caulk the exterior so melting snow never reaches your framing
Adjust the threshold and sweep so you cannot see daylight at the bottom
Test the lock, deadbolt, and weatherstripping before leaving
Exterior door installation cost in Toronto breaks into two parts: the door itself and the labour. Labour alone for a straightforward exterior swap typically runs $500 to $1,500. The door adds $800 to $4,000 or more depending on material and glass. Rot repair, resizing an opening, or replacing a rotted subsill adds to that. A written quote after an in-home measure is the only number worth trusting, and that quote is free through our quote form.
One more thing worth knowing: an Energy Star certified exterior door cuts heat loss compared to an older uninsulated slab. If your current door is original to a 1960s or 1970s house, the comfort difference is not subtle.
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Where summer happens
Patio door installation
The back of your house is where summer happens. A smooth patio door turns the backyard into an extra room. A bad one becomes the door everyone avoids, the one that takes two hands and a shoulder to open. There are 3 common patio door types:
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Sliding patio doors
Sliders are the default for a reason. They take zero swing space, so your furniture layout stays free. Modern vinyl sliding doors glide on better rollers and seal far tighter than the aluminum sliders from the 1980s. Typical installed range in Toronto: $1,800 to $5,000.
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Swinging or French patio doors
French doors swing like entry doors and give you a full clear opening, which is great for moving furniture and hosting. They read as more traditional and elegant. Because they have two operating panels with full perimeter sealing, they cost more: roughly $2,500 to $7,000 installed.
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Bi-fold and accordion patio doors
Bi-fold doors stack panel against panel and open up nearly the entire wall. They are the showpiece option for renovations and additions. They are also the most complex to install and the priciest, often $8,000 and well beyond, depending on the span.
Patio door projects punish sloppy installation more than any other door type. The unit is wide, heavy, and glass. If the frame is even slightly out of level, the door drags forever. This is not the job for the cheapest quote you can find.
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Install day, honestly
minutes is all it takes a professional crew to remove your old door and frame. The rest of the day goes where it matters: shimming the new unit true, sealing it tight, and testing every lock before they leave.
The fastest refresh
Interior door installation
Interior doors are the fastest way to make an older Toronto house feel renovated. Fresh doors, matching hardware, clean casing. Visitors cannot name what changed, but the whole home reads newer.
Interior door installation in Toronto comes in two flavours:
Slab replacement
A slab is just the door itself, no frame. If your existing frames are square and solid, an installer can hang new slabs on the old frames. The installer trims each slab to fit, mortises the hinges, and drills for the handle. Labour typically runs $100 to $250 per door, plus the slab.
Prehung interior doors
Prehung interior doors arrive already hinged inside a new frame. The installer removes the old frame, sets the new unit plumb, and cases it out. Prehung is the better route when your old frames are beat up, painted shut, or out of square, which describes a lot of Toronto’s older housing stock. Labour typically runs $150 to $400 per door, plus the unit.
On materials, hollow core doors are light and affordable, at roughly $50 to $150 per slab. Solid core doors cost more, around $150 to $400, but they block sound and feel substantial when they close. For bedrooms and bathrooms, solid core is the upgrade people never regret.
Custom interior doors, in oversized openings, arches, or special wood species, are their own category. If you can dream it, a Toronto millwork shop can build it, and the right installer can hang it. Prices vary too widely to summarize honestly, so get a measured quote.
Doing one door rarely makes sense on labour. Most homeowners batch 5 to 12 interior doors in one visit and get a much better per-door rate. Mention the full count on your quote request so the estimate reflects that.
Scope check
Door replacement vs. cutting a new opening
Replacement
Most projects in this city are replacements: a new door in an existing opening. Same size hole, new unit, done in a few hours to a day.
A new opening
Cutting a brand new opening is a different animal. That means removing brick or siding, adding a structural header, framing, and often a building permit. Budget $1,500 to $4,000 on top of the door for a straightforward new opening, and more if the wall is load bearing or the exterior is solid masonry.
Neither is a DIY weekend in a Toronto home. Older houses hide surprises behind the casing: shifted foundations, knob and tube wiring, framing that was “close enough” in 1955. An experienced installer has seen all of it and quotes accordingly, instead of discovering it halfway through your wall.
2026 price ranges
What door installation costs in Toronto
Numbers first, caveats second. Here are typical installed ranges Toronto homeowners see in 2026. Every home differs, so treat these as planning figures, not promises:
| Project | Typical installed range |
|---|---|
Interior slab swap (per door, labour only) | $100 to $250 |
Prehung interior door (per door, labour only) | $150 to $400 |
Interior door with materials (per door) | $300 to $900 |
Steel entry door, supplied and installed | $1,500 to $3,500 |
Fiberglass entry door, supplied and installed | $2,500 to $6,000 |
Wood entry door, supplied and installed | $4,000 and up |
Entry door with sidelights | add $800 to $2,500 |
Double front doors | $5,000 to $12,000 |
Sliding patio door | $1,800 to $5,000 |
French patio doors | $2,500 to $7,000 |
New opening (structural work, before the door) | $1,500 to $4,000+ |
Two honest notes on these numbers. First, they come from published Toronto market pricing, not from us; your written quote sets the actual price. Second, the low end of every range assumes a clean opening with no rot, no resizing, and easy access. Toronto’s housing stock is old enough that surprises are common, which is why written quotes beat internet averages every time.
The variables
What moves the price up or down
Two identical doors can cost very different amounts to install. Here is what actually drives the number:
The condition of the opening. Rot in the subsill or frame is the most common surprise in Toronto. Fixing it properly can add $200 to $800.
Size changes. Widening or shrinking an opening means carpentry, and in brick homes, masonry work.
The wall itself. Doors in solid brick or double brick walls (common in older Toronto neighbourhoods) take longer than doors in framed walls.
Glass. More glass, more money. Decorative inserts, sidelights, and transoms all add cost, and they add it fast.
Hardware. A basic handleset is $50. A multi-point locking handleset can be $400 or more.
Storeys and access. A balcony door on the third floor costs more to install than the same unit at grade.
Disposal. Hauling away the old unit is usually cheap, but confirm it is in the quote.
Season. Installers get slammed from spring through fall. Late fall and winter installs are absolutely doable (crews seal the opening as they work), and you often get faster scheduling.
The pattern here is simple: the door is the predictable part, and the opening is the variable. That is why every serious quote starts with a measure.
The honest comparison
Buying the door at Home Depot or Rona vs. supply and install
Plenty of homeowners price doors at Home Depot or Rona first, and that is a smart way to learn the market. Big box stores sell decent stock doors at fair prices, and both offer installation programs. Here is the honest comparison:
The big box route
You pick from stock or special order, pay a set installation fee, and the store subcontracts a local crew. It works well for standard sizes in good openings. It gets clumsy when your opening needs repair, resizing, or anything custom, because change orders go through the store, not the person in your hallway. Cheap exterior doors from a Canadian big box shelf can also be builder grade, meaning thinner cores and basic weatherstripping.
The supply and install route
A dedicated door installer quotes the door and the labour as one job, owns the whole outcome, and handles surprises on the spot. Mid-market and premium door lines also tend to be dealer-only, so you see options the store shelf never shows you.
Neither route is wrong. If your project is one standard door in a clean opening, the store program is fine. If your project involves an older home, multiple doors, sizing changes, or you simply want one accountable company, supply and install usually wins on both outcome and total cost. Request a quote and you get the supply and install route, from a crew whose insurance and warranty have already been checked.
1890s Victorians to new infill
Toronto homes are their own challenge
Door installation in Toronto is not the same trade as door installation in a new subdivision. This city’s housing runs from 1890s Victorians to 1950s bungalows to brand new infill, often on the same street. That mix means:
Nothing is square.
Century homes settle. A great installer shims and adjusts until the door operates perfectly in an imperfect opening.
Brick is everywhere.
Cutting, patching, or sealing against brick and stone takes different tools and different flashing details than siding.
Non-standard sizes are normal.
Plenty of older Toronto doorways were framed before standard sizing existed. Custom-sized units solve it, and a good installer measures for them correctly the first time.
Winter is real.
Proper insulation and sealing around the frame is the difference between a warm hallway and a cold one for the next 25 years.
This is exactly why our standard is local experience, not just a license. A crew that works Toronto and GTA homes every week has already solved your house’s weird problem in someone else’s house.
Comfort that pays back
Energy efficiency and rebates
An old exterior door leaks heat in two ways: through the slab itself and around it, through failed weatherstripping and uninsulated gaps. A modern insulated door installed with proper foam and sealing attacks both.
Look for the Energy Star mark when comparing doors sold in Canada. It certifies the unit meets efficiency standards for our climate zone. Beyond comfort, efficiency can put money back in your pocket: federal and Ontario energy rebate and financing programs come and go, and Energy Star certified doors are typically the qualifying kind when a program is open. Ask what is claimable right now during your free estimate; crews deal with the paperwork weekly and know the current rules better than any static web page.
One scope note while we are being precise: garage door installation is a separate trade with its own springs, tracks, and openers. We focus on entry, patio, and interior doors. If you need a garage door, hire a garage door company.
Service areas
Where we install doors
We cover Toronto proper and the surrounding GTA. That includes the downtown core, East York, North York, and York, plus:
You can browse every area we serve on the service areas page. If you are near Toronto but not listed, submit the quote form anyway; coverage keeps growing, and if we do not cover your area yet, we tell you straight.
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One renovation, not three
Replacing windows too? Bundle the project
Doors and windows age on the same clock. If your entry door is original, your windows probably are too, and the same crews often handle both.
Bundling matters for one simple reason: money. Mobilizing a crew once for 10 openings costs far less per opening than 3 separate small jobs. Homeowners who combine door and window replacement routinely negotiate better per-unit pricing, and they live through one renovation instead of three.
If windows are on your list, read our window installation Toronto page, then mention both on your quote request. One form covers the whole project.
Installation day
What happens on installation day
Knowing the sequence takes the stress out of it. A typical exterior door replacement runs like this:
Your part is small. Clear a path on both sides of the door. Move anything fragile off nearby walls, because there will be some banging. Keep pets in another room. Plan to be home, or have someone there who can make decisions if the opening hides a surprise.
01The crew arrives and lays down floor protection from the entry to their work zone.
02They remove the old door and frame. This is louder than you expect and over in 20 minutes.
03They inspect the opening. Any rot or damage gets flagged and priced before work continues, not after.
04They set the new unit, check it with a level in every direction, and shim it tight.
05They foam the gaps, flash the exterior, and caulk the perimeter.
06They install and test the hardware. Handle, deadbolt, sweep, weatherstripping.
07They clean up, haul the old door away, and walk you through the work.
The quote conversation
5 questions to ask before you hire anyone
The quote conversation tells you a lot. Ask these of anyone who quotes your door, us included:
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Are you insured, and can I see proof?
Any real company says yes without flinching.
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Who actually does the install, your crew or a subcontractor?
Either answer can be fine. A vague answer is not.
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What does the labour warranty cover, and for how long?
Get it in writing.
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What happens if you find rot in the opening?
You want a process, not a shrug.
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Is haul away and cleanup included in this price?
Small item, common surprise.
Good installers like these questions. They separate the pros from the truck-and-a-ladder crowd, and the pros know it.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers on cost, labour, permits, and timelines for door installation in Toronto.
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Here is where this ends up: a door that closes with one hand and a click. A front hallway that stays warm in February. A house that looks cared for from the curb, because it is.
Getting there takes one step today. Fill out the free quote form with what you are replacing. Your opening gets measured in person, you get one written quote, you ask your questions, and you decide with zero pressure. If the fit is not right, you owe nothing and nobody chases you.
You have opened that sticky door for the last winter you need to. Start the quote now.
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