What a new garage door costs

Wood, aluminum, composite and glass doors are priced too, but only one of the cost guides we read prices them installed, so there's no range here. Ask each company to quote the door you want, installed.

Taking away the old door and getting a permit can be priced on their own: HomeGuide and Angi both list them separately from the door.^{1, 3} If you want a new opener too, what a garage door opener costs has that range.

Whether a new garage door needs a permit depends on your state and your city or county. Two examples:

• New Jersey. Replacing a garage door in the same opening, without changing the opening's size or framing, is ordinary maintenance that needs no permit, unless the opening is in a fire-rated wall.⁶
• California. The state's residential code doesn't list a garage door replacement among the jobs that skip a permit, and your city or county building department issues it.⁷ State law also says a replacement door can't be hooked up to an existing opener that fails the reversing test or has no battery backup.^8-9

Some coastal states have wind rules that reach garage doors:

• Florida. Garage doors have to be tested for wind pressure, and each one has to carry the maker's permanent label with its design pressure rating and, where it has one, its Florida or Miami-Dade product approval number.¹⁰
• Texas. In the state's coastal catastrophe area, a home needs a Texas Department of Insurance certificate of compliance to be insured through the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, and the department says most alterations need a windstorm inspection.^11-12

Your state's rules page on this site has its permit and wind rules, with their sources.

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• Wood, aluminum, composite and glass doors, installed. Only one cost guide prices them that way.
• An insulated double door. Only one cost guide prices it.
• Commercial overhead doors. Only one cost guide prices them, and the public contracts we found pay by the hour or by the project.

• Whether the price includes the tracks, hardware and taking away the old door.
• Who gets the permit, if your town needs one.
• Whether the door's insulated, and for a coastal home, its wind rating.
• Whether your opener will work with the new door, or needs replacing.

Each company on this site is listed with its phone number where it has one, so you can call two or three and compare. You can also send a request through the request form.