Your numbers
What should exterior door cost?
ZIP, the quantities you can actually measure, and a few named modifiers. The range is a CostAnswer estimate, not a market quantile.Each door is priced as 20 sq ft of a 36-inch by 80-inch prehung fiberglass leaf.
Common questions
Before you call a contractor
How much does an exterior door replacement cost?
Enter your ZIP and scope on this page for a CostAnswer estimated range built from BLS trade wages, ECEC labor loading, and named material or equipment lines.
It is a planning figure, not a contractor bid. Incomplete ranges mean a critical material still has no sourced price.
What is included in this exterior door estimate?
Count prehung exterior doors of similar size. Each door is modeled as a 36-inch by 80-inch (20 sq ft) leaf.
Trade: Carpentry. Modifiers on the form change crew time or materials; they do not invent a market average for your city.
Why is this not the same as a contractor quote?
A quote prices your house, your access, your permit office, and that company’s backlog. This engine prices a named recipe at published wage and cost proxies.
Use Check a quote on the same engine to see whether a written bid sits low, mid, or high against that recipe.
Why does exterior door cost differ in Washington?
Materials use the same national sourced baselines everywhere. Crew wages come from BLS OEWS for Washington, so labor-heavy jobs move more than material-heavy ones.
Trade wages here run about 22% above the national crew wage bill for this recipe.
Engine notes
- Unit. Count prehung exterior doors of similar size. Each door is modeled as a 36-inch by 80-inch (20 sq ft) leaf.
- Geography. Washington wages from BLS OEWS. ZIP is an approximate ZIP/ZCTA match to county.
- Why this state page exists. It opens only when this state’s crew wage bill differs from the national bill by more than the recipe’s confidence band. Materials do not change by state in this engine.