What does an entry door cost in Phoenix?

What moves your number: material, glass area, whether the frame and threshold are being replaced or just the slab, and — in this climate more than most — which direction the door faces.

The published figures, and what is wrong with them

Read the dates first. HomeGuide's front-door page was written in June 2024 and has not been refreshed since. It is still one of the first pages a Phoenix homeowner lands on, and it will anchor them on a two-year-old number in a category where material and labour costs have not stood still.

The Phoenix number is the national number times 0.944

Angi publishes a national front-door page and a Phoenix front-door page, updated a day apart. The Phoenix page presents itself as local customer data.

Every figure on it is the national figure multiplied by 0.944. Fourteen rows out of fourteen. The headline average ($1,218 → $1,150), the double door ($5,000 → $4,720), wrought iron ($7,000 → $6,610), steel ($1,000 → $940), fiberglass ($5,000 → $4,720). Wrought iron and composite wood share no material, no weight, no labor profile and no supply chain, and they move together perfectly.

We publish all fourteen rows, plus the Angi page two weeks later that puts Phoenix door repair about 3.3% above national while its installation page puts Phoenix 5.6% below — same city, same month, same site, both labeled survey data — in the Phoenix door replacement cost guide. You can check it yourself in two minutes with both tabs open.

Forbes and Angi publish one number set between them

Here is the tell that is harder to explain away than the multiplier.

Those are Angi's entry-door material ranges. They are also Forbes's, to the dollar, on all three rows. Two separately branded, separately bylined, separately "researched" publications arriving independently at $100–$1,000 for steel and $1,500–$7,000 for wrought iron is not something that happens.

That is the state of the category. A handful of number sets, restated across dozens of sites, with local headlines applied by multiplication. It does not make the numbers useless. It makes them one source, not four, and you should budget accordingly.

Material tiers: what actually separates them

Aggregator averages by material are worth reading as an ordering, not as prices. Angi's national averages run composite wood $500, steel $1,000, aluminum $2,000, fiberglass $5,000, wood $5,000, wrought iron $7,000 — the dearest material on that list is fourteen times the cheapest. That ordering is roughly right even where the individual figures are not.

Steel. Strongest per dollar and the cheapest way to get a solid, secure, insulated slab. Its weakness in Phoenix is the finish and the edges, not the panel. A steel door is a painted steel skin, and a painted steel skin on a west elevation is a coating problem.

Fiberglass. Dimensionally stable, does not conduct like metal, takes a woodgrain finish, and does not move with humidity the way wood does. This is the volume answer in desert markets and the reason the fiberglass entry lines carry the longest finish warranties in the category.

Wood. The best-looking option and the most maintenance. A full-wood exterior door in direct Phoenix sun on an unprotected elevation is a recurring refinishing commitment, and every manufacturer's warranty language reflects that — ProVia's own full wood frame stain warranty is 90 days.

Wrought iron. Priced at the top of every published table, and a different purchase again — heavier, usually custom, and generally a design decision rather than an energy one.

The number no one prints: glass area

ENERGY STAR's current Version 7.0 specification, effective October 23 2023, splits doors by exactly this:

A solid door has to hit a far tighter U-factor than a mostly-glass one, because it has no excuse. The moment you add a full lite or two sidelites, you are buying a window that happens to have a lock in it — and the federal guidance for warm climates is one line: "Look for a low solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC)... Low SHGCs reduce heat gain in warm climates."

Ask for the U-factor and the SHGC on the NFRC label for the exact configuration you are buying, sidelites included. Which brings us to a problem.

ProVia's three entry lines, and what they do not publish

We install ProVia. Here is their entry range as published, including the parts that are inconvenient for us.

Source: provia.com/doors/entry-doors and the entry system and patio door warranty, revision 8/26.

The construction detail ProVia does publish is unusually specific for this category. On Signet, verbatim: "Stiles and rails are dovetailed and glued at each corner creating a structurally solid, integrated frame"; a "2 5/8" finger-jointed 3-ply hardwood hinge stile" and a "4 1/4" finger-jointed 4-ply hardwood strike stile"; a core "foam filled by a computer driven process that ensures the optimal foam fill for maximum efficiency"; and a "Z-AC Threshold with auto-adjusting riser." That threshold detail matters more than it sounds like — an auto-adjusting riser is the part that keeps a door sealing after the house and the slab have moved through a few summers.

And here is what those three product pages do not contain: an R-value or a U-factor. Not one, on any of the three.

We went looking properly. The only entry-door U-factors we could find anywhere are in a 2025 product catalog, and the copy we could reach was hosted by a dealer rather than by ProVia. ProVia's own catalog file exceeded what we could retrieve and verify. So we are not printing those figures, because we cannot stand behind the source. What ProVia does state on its door technology page is certification, not measurement: "All Signet doors without glass are ENERGY STAR certified and most models with glass are as well", the same for Legacy, and "Most Ascent fiberglass entry systems can be ENERGY STAR certified."

"Most" and "can be" are doing real work in those sentences, and they are the reason to ask for the label rather than the brochure.

To be fair about it: ProVia is not hiding anything unusual here. Very few entry-door manufacturers publish U-factors at product-page level. But a certification statement with a qualifier in it is not a performance number, and if a salesperson — ours included — quotes you a U-factor from memory, ask which document it came from.

West-facing doors are a different problem in this valley

Entry-door finish warranties are the manufacturer telling you what it expects the sun to do. Fifteen years on Signet, ten on Ascent and Legacy, ninety days on full wood frame stain. Those tiers are not arbitrary.

The Arizona State Climate Office publishes normal maximum temperatures for Phoenix of 103.9°F in June, 106.6°F in July and 104.5°F in August — noting, and we will note it too, that the period of record is 1971–2000, which is stale for a metro that has grown the way this one has. The same source gives the figure that matters more for a door finish: sunshine in the Phoenix area "averages 86 percent of possible... maximum of 94 percent in June." The record high is 122°F, set June 26 1990.

A west-facing entry door here takes the hottest hours of the day, from the low sun angle, on the most exposed elevation, for the better part of two decades. That is a finish and a seal question long before it is an energy question — and it is the same mechanism, on a different component, that we document for glass in why the Arizona sun destroys sliding doors. It is why the thermal exclusion in ProVia's warranty is worth reading before you sign anything, from anyone:

"Warping or failures of the frame and brickmold which are the result of or involve stress caused by localized application of heat, movement of building or building components, or expansion/contraction of building or building components."

That is a standard exclusion and it appears in some form in most manufacturers' documents. It is also, in Phoenix, a description of normal Tuesday. It is one more reason that where the door sits, what shades it, and what color it is finished should be part of the conversation on site rather than an afterthought.

We do not have a published, Phoenix-specific measurement of door surface temperature or finish degradation rate, from ProVia or anyone else. If we find one we will put it here. Until then, treat the warranty tiers as the industry's own honest estimate of finish life in the sun, and treat orientation as a real specification input.

The warranty, in the terms that actually bind

Source: ProVia entry system and patio door warranty, rev 8/26.

Three lines there deserve attention. The lifetime seal coverage is conditional on the glazing package — specify the cheaper glass and it becomes a ten-year warranty. Weatherstripping, the component that does the most work in a climate that swings this hard, is five years. And none of it covers labor. A manufacturer's warranty pays for a part. Somebody still has to come and fit it, and whose problem that is depends entirely on the installer's own workmanship warranty, which is a separate document with a separate term.

Ask every bidder for both documents, on paper, before you decide anything.

What homeowners report at the top of the market

Self-reported figures from public threads. Unverified, not Phoenix-specific, and included because they are what your neighbors are reading.

One homeowner reported: "Renewal By Anderson quoted me 35k for a front door." In the same thread, another reported a quote of $40,000–$50,000 for doors and asked, reasonably, whether it could be real. We deal with that category of quote at length in ProVia vs Renewal by Andersen in Arizona.

We are going to be precise about what that is and is not. It is not a product-quality story. The fairest line in any of these threads comes from a homeowner: "Quality is usually fine its the 2x markup that most people have an issue with." And: "Sure.. their product is quality from what I've seen.. but you can get the same quality for far less money." Renewal by Andersen, Pella and Marvin build good doors. The complaint is price and process.

On process, two things recur often enough to be worth naming. The first is the expiring discount: "They have a discount if I purchased within 15 day", and the response it usually earns — "Anybody that says, 'I can give you a discount, but only if you sign up right now' has gotta absolutely be full of shit."

The second is what happens after the contract is signed. From the same $35,000 thread: "They manufactured the door too large for the opening... the installers simply cut approximately four inches off the siding of my home to force the door to fit." A high price does not buy a measurement.

The defense a homeowner offers in these threads is better than anything we could write: "I'd ask for the exact window model and a written breakdown showing what's included in the installation." And "Never ever ever do projects without 3+ quotes."

We do not do same-day pricing. The number we give you on Tuesday is the number on Friday. Our installers are Renmark employees, and our license number — ROC 364596 — is public, as is everyone else's bidding your job. That lookup takes about thirty seconds and you should do it on all three.

What an entry door quote must itemize

1. Slab only, or full entry system — slab, frame, jambs, threshold and brickmold, stated separately
2. Manufacturer and line — Signet, Ascent, Legacy, or whatever the equivalent is from another bidder
3. Material and finish, with the finish warranty term in writing
4. Glazing configuration — lite size, sidelites, transom — and the NFRC U-factor and SHGC for that exact configuration
5. Door orientation noted, and what if anything shades it
6. Threshold type and whether it is adjustable
7. Weatherstripping type and its warranty term
8. Lock and hardware — brand, grade, finish, and the hardware warranty term
9. Exterior and interior patching — stucco, drywall, trim, paint match
10. Product warranty and labor warranty as two separate documents, with terms

Items 1 and 10 are where quotes stop being comparable. A slab-only price and a full-entry-system price are different projects, and a bidder who does not say which one you are getting is not being careless.

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