CGI Door Installation Nationwide

CGI Door Installation: The Orlando Owner’s Guide

CGI door installation in Orlando typically runs $1,450 to $3,600 installed, depending on the door series, size, and whether we’re replacing the slab, the frame, or the entire assembly. We stock CGI-compatible hardware, weatherstripping, and threshold components on our trucks, so most repairs happen in a single visit. Owners usually discover the problem the hard way: a door that suddenly won’t latch after a storm, daylight seeping through the corners, or a lock that fights back every time they turn the key.

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If your CGI door is dragging, binding, or letting water through the bottom, you’re not imagining it. Florida’s humidity and daily thermal cycling work against every weatherstrip and hinge on the door. The good news is that most failures are repairable without replacing the whole unit, and we’ll tell you straight whether a $120 part swap fixes it or whether the slab itself has worn past the point of rescue.

Key takeaways:

• Installed pricing starts around $1,450 for a clean slab swap, up to $3,600+ for full-frame replacement on larger openings.
• Most CGI door failures in Orlando are hardware or weatherseal problems, not structural panel failures.
• We carry OEM and quality aftermarket parts that fit CGI’s Classic, Estate, and Sentry lines.
• Every job gets a written price before we turn a screw, backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise.

Which CGI Models This Applies To

CGI’s residential impact-rated door lines break into three families you’ll see across Orlando: the Classic Series (the workhorse, smooth panel face, most common in tract housing), the Estate Series (deeper panel profiles, often paired with decorative glass), and the Sentry Series (their higher-end offering with heavier extrusion and more glass options). Parts don’t necessarily swap between series, and here’s the gotcha most people miss: CGI changed their threshold and weatherstrip profiles on units built after roughly 2014, so a pre-2014 Classic door needs different bottom sweeps than a new one, even though the doors look identical from the street.

How to identify your door: open it and look at the hinge side of the panel. CGI stamps a serial number and often the series name on a sticker near the top hinge or on the edge. If the sticker is gone (sunlight eats adhesives in Orlando), measure the slab thickness. CGI impact doors are almost always 1¾” thick, but some Sentry units with heavier glass run 2¼”. That measurement alone tells us which hinge and lock prep hardware your door takes.

On replacement parts, we stock both OEM CGI components and tested aftermarket equivalents. For locksets, hinges, and rollers, a quality aftermarket part from brands we trust performs exactly as well and often costs 30 – 40% less than the CGI-branded box. For weatherstripping and thresholds, we install OEM profiles whenever possible because the silicone bulb extrusion has to match the factory kerf exactly – a generic sweep leaves gaps that let Orlando’s afternoon rain walk right under the door.

Signs Your CGI Door Installation Is Failing

• The door binds at the top corner on the latch side. This is almost always a hinge problem, not a door problem. Over years, the upper hinge screws in the jamb loosen or strip, letting the slab sag a few millimeters. That sag makes the door fight the frame every time you close it.
• You can see daylight under the bottom sweep. CGI’s sweep profiles compress over time, especially on west-facing doors that get hammered by afternoon sun in Orlando. Once the sweep takes a set, water and bugs get the same clear path as the light.
• The latch doesn’t click into the strike plate without a hard push or a shoulder bump. Foundation settling (common in Orlando’s sandy soil) shifts the jamb, or the weatherstripping has swollen and throws the alignment off. Either way, forcing the door wears the lock internals faster.
• You hear a whistle or feel a draft when the A/C kicks on. That’s the weatherstripping around the top and sides going flat. In a Florida summer, that gap is paid for twice: once in cooling costs and again in humidity that makes your floors feel sticky.
• The threshold itself feels spongy or has visible cracks in the aluminum. CGI’s earlier thresholds had weep holes that clog with pollen and oak debris, and standing water corrodes the extrusion from underneath. Once that happens, resealing won’t save it – the threshold needs to come out.

Any one of these is fixable. What matters is catching it before the misalignment starts wearing the panel itself, because once the corner of an impact-rated slab gets chewed by the frame, you’re talking slab replacement instead of a $90 hinge job.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Here’s what we quote for CGI door work in Orlando, parts and labor, written before we start:

What drives the range: door width (a 36″ slab is stock pricing; anything wider or a custom swing means more), whether the existing frame has rot or termite damage behind the trim, and which CGI series you’re matching. The numbers above include haul-away of the old door, new fasteners, sealants, and a final walkaround with you before we call the job done. Every installation is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work isn’t right within a year, we come back and make it right, parts and labor, in writing.

DIY or Call Us?

You can safely re-tighten hinge screws, clean out the threshold weep holes with a pipe cleaner, and apply a dry lubricant to the lock cylinder and hinges. Those are ten-minute jobs that don’t require removing anything structural. If they fix your issue, you’re done and we’re cheering for you.

Where DIY goes wrong on these doors: pulling the threshold means breaking the seal against the slab, and doing it wrong lets Orlando’s rainy season find its way under your flooring. Swapping the slab on an impact-rated door means getting the reveal even on all four sides while the panel weighs 100+ pounds, and if it drops, you’re buying a new panel, not a band-aid. And if you’re dealing with a binding door that’s already stressed the frame, forcing it is how you ruin expensive hardware. If any of that sounds like your situation, call us at (850) 679-8554 and we’ll quote it straight. The number we give you is the number on the invoice.

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