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CGI Door Installation: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide

CGI door installation in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $350 – $1,150 installed for most hinge, roller, weatherstripping, and threshold replacements, with full door slab swaps starting around $1,800 depending on size and glass package. We stock CGI-compatible parts on the truck and can usually complete the replacement within one visit once we’ve verified your door’s series and dimensions. Most homeowners discover the problem when the door starts dragging across the threshold, a corner of the frame starts letting daylight through, or the locking hardware won’t catch cleanly anymore. In Fort Lauderdale’s salt air and hurricane-season humidity, these failures show up faster than inland, and they rarely fix themselves.

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Which CGI Models This Applies To

CGI impact doors in Fort Lauderdale fall into a few main product families, and the part you need often depends on which one you have. The CGI Estate Collection and Sentry Series are the two lines we see most often in Broward County, and they do not share all hardware. Estate doors use a heavier hinge with a wider leaf pattern than Sentry, and the threshold profiles are different enough that a Sentry threshold will not seat correctly under an Estate door without modifying the subfloor, which we won’t do to force a fit.

Check the inside edge of your door panel near the bottom corner for a small metallic sticker with the CGI series name and a manufacturing code. If the sticker is gone, measure the door slab thickness. Older CGI doors run 1¾ inches thick; newer models are often 2 inches. That measurement alone eliminates half the guesswork. When it comes to replacement parts, we install genuine CGI OEM where the part is structural or weather-sealing, because the warranty and the water-rating depend on the factory tolerance. For non-structural items like handle sets and sweep gaskets, we stock quality aftermarket equivalents that match the CGI spec at a lower material cost, and we’ll tell you the difference before you pay for anything.

Signs Your CGI Door Installation Is Failing

• The door scrapes or catches on the threshold. This usually means the hinge screws have loosened against the frame or the bottom sweep has swollen from repeated exposure to Fort Lauderdale rain. If it is the sweep, the fix is a ten-minute replacement; if the hinges have torn out of the jamb, the jamb itself may need a filler-and-remount before a new door can seat properly.
• You can see daylight through the top or side of the door when it’s closed. The weatherstripping has compressed or torn. On CGI doors, the side weatherstrip sits in a kerf cut into the jamb, and when it fails, salt air gets into the hardware channel and starts corroding the strike plate and lock body from the inside.
• Water pools inside on the floor after a hard rain. Fort Lauderdale gets the kind of wind-driven rain that a worn threshold cap cannot shed. The cap is a sacrificial part; once its drainage channels are clogged or cracked, water wicks under the door and into the subfloor. That subfloor damage is a far larger bill than a new threshold.
• The lock works hard or the bolt only half-throws. CGI impact doors flex less than standard doors, so a misaligned strike plate is almost always a sign the hinge side has settled. Tightening the hinges sometimes works; more often the frame needs to be squared back into place before the door will lock like it used to.
• The door feels heavy or the panel has come out of alignment after a storm. This points to hinge bearing wear or frame racking. Hinges on impact-rated doors carry more weight than standard hinges and wear out in predictable increments. A bent hinge pin that goes unattended will eventually damage the jamb, and at that point a simple hardware swap becomes a full re-hang.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Here’s what CGI door installation and part replacement actually costs in Fort Lauderdale, based on the jobs we’ve done across Broward County in the last twelve months:

• Hinge set replacement (3 hinges): $95 – $185 installed
• Weatherstripping and sweep gasket: $120 – $240 installed, depending on door size and whether it needs a full perimeter reseal
• Threshold cap replacement: $210 – $385 installed, including removal of the old cap, cleanup of the subthreshold channel, and resealing
• Strike plate realignment with lock body service: $140 – $310, which includes lubing, adjusting, and if needed replacing the deadbolt tailpiece
• Full door panel replacement with existing frame: $1,800 – $3,400, depending on glass package, door size, and whether the hinge side of the jamb needs reinforcement
• Full frame-and-panel replacement: $3,200 – $5,800 for a standard single impact door in a concrete-block wall, with the higher end covering wide stile doors and custom stains

The range depends mostly on whether we are rebuilding an existing frame or only replacing the part, plus access and the condition of the subfloor under the threshold. You’ll get a written line-item price before we start, and that price won’t revise itself at the door. Our workmanship warranty covers the installation for a full year, and if a repair fails within that window, we return and fix it at no charge under our 365-Day Done Right Promise. That’s in writing, not in a sales pitch.

DIY or Call Us?

Some of this you can absolutely handle yourself. Replacing a bottom sweep takes a screwdriver, a pair of tin snips, and about fifteen minutes, and we are happy to tell you the exact sweep profile to buy so you don’t come home with the wrong one. Hinge tightening falls into the same category, provided the screws still bite.

But if the hinge screws spin without grabbing, or the threshold is lifted at the corners, or you’ve got water staining around the door frame, stop and call us at (754) 354-5397. A CGI impact door is load-bearing in ways standard doors are not; it has to hold a frame together during a storm and resist hundreds of pounds of pressure. There is a real safety difference between a door that looks straight and a door that’s anchored straight, and in Fort Lauderdale, that difference is the thing holding your house together in September. You won’t have to pull the whole door to find out. We’ll tell you what the house actually needs after one look.

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