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Sliding door replacement in Delray Beach usually runs between $2,800 and $6,500 for a standard 6-foot patio slider, with impact-rated coastal models starting around $4,200. Most jobs take one day once materials arrive, and the free estimate we give you is the number on the contract. Call (786) 743-5882 and a live person answers, day or night.
We work Delray Beach from the Intracoastal to the west side of I-95, and we know the difference between a 1970s CBS rancher in High Point of Delray and a 1950s frame cottage off Swinton Avenue. The salt air east of US-1 eats aluminum tracks and rollers faster than anything you’ll see in Boca Raton or Boynton Beach. Our Sliding & Patio Doors team has been replacing corroded sliders and seized tracks here long enough to know what holds up and what does not.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Delray Beach’s Preferred Sliding & Patio Doors Company
We are not the cheapest bid in Delray Beach, and we do not try to be. We are the company homeowners call when a previous contractor left them with a fogged panel and a door that binds every July. Dale Kessler founded TruePane in 2008 on a rule he still keeps on the whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That standard governs every slider we set from Pineapple Grove to Kings Point.
Our Delray Beach customers deal with two approval gates on most jobs: a Palm Beach County building permit and an HOA architectural review board that may meet once a month. We prepare both packages before you sign the contract, which keeps your start date from sliding six to ten weeks. A uniformed, background-checked technician measures every opening twice, and you get manufacturer quotes side by side on paper so you see exactly what you are buying. Most jobs are done in a single visit.
Both manufacturer warranty layers get registered in writing before our truck leaves your driveway, with durations stated and a copy left with you. That is The Keystone Standard, and it is backed by our Done Right Promise. If something is not right, we make it right. No paperwork fights, no arguing.
Our Sliding & Patio Doors Services in Delray Beach
Patio Sliding Doors
Most Delray Beach homes west of I-95 still run the original aluminum single-pane sliders installed in the 1970s and 1980s. These doors cannot be repaired into compliance with current Florida Building Code wind-load requirements. We replace them with impact-rated, low-E insulated sliders built for Miami-Dade conditions, and we spec the hardware in stainless or marine-grade finish because the humidity here accelerates corrosion on standard rollers and tracks.
Heavy-Duty Sliding Doors
For wider openings and doors that get daily use, we install heavy-duty sliders with reinforced frames and commercial-grade roller assemblies. In Delray Beach’s 55-plus communities like Pines of Delray, a three-panel heavy-duty slider often replaces a jalousie wall or a failing original slider, and it changes how the whole room ventilates and holds conditioned air. Salt air near A1A is hard on standard hardware, so on coastal jobs we specify stainless tracks and sealed bearing rollers that do not seize after a decade.
Screen Door Installation
A new sliding glass door without a proper screen is half the job in South Florida. Delray Beach’s mosquito season runs most of the year, and screen doors here take direct salt air on the east side of US-1. We install screen doors with marine-grade mesh and powder-coated frames that resist the same corrosion that kills the cheap aluminum screens from big-box stores within three or four years.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Delray Beach
We are an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, and for Delray Beach sliders we lean on brands that hold up to coastal Palm Beach County conditions: PGT show up often on our Delray Beach work orders. We can quote these lines side by side on paper so you see the actual difference in glass, frame material, and warranty duration rather than taking a salesperson’s word for it. If you bring us a brand preference, we will work with it. If you want a recommendation for a salt-air exposure, we will give you one based on what we have watched fail and what we have watched last.
Common Sliding & Patio Doors Problems We See in Delray Beach Homes
- Seized rollers and corroded tracks east of US-1. Salt air from the Atlantic works on aluminum sliding door hardware year-round. Rollers pit, tracks corrode, and the door that slid easily for twenty years suddenly takes two hands and a hip to move. We see this in Delray Beach condos along A1A and in single-family homes east of Federal Highway far more often than we do inland.
- Fogged insulated glass panels from argon loss. When the seal on an insulated glass unit fails, argon leaks out and humid Florida air replaces it. The panel fogs permanently. On a 1980s slider in a Delray Beach community, this is usually the moment to replace the whole door rather than swap the panel, because the frame and hardware are also at end of life.
- Original single-pane sliders failing wind-load code. In Kings Point, High Point of Delray, and other 55-plus communities, thousands of homes still carry original aluminum sliders with single-pane glazing. These cannot be made impact-compliant. Once they show seal failure, corrosion, or binding, the only path that satisfies Palm Beach County is full replacement with an impact-rated unit.
- Jalousie windows and sliders that leak humid air. Many Delray Beach retirement communities built in the 1970s and 1980s used jalousie windows and matching sliders. The gaps in jalousie glass let conditioned air escape and salt-laden humidity in, warping jambs and swelling sashes over time. The fix is not a repair. It is a modern impact-rated sliding door with sealed joints and low-E glass.
Pricing for Sliding & Patio Doors in Delray Beach, FL
A standard 6-foot patio sliding door replacement in Delray Beach typically runs $2,800 to $4,600 for a vinyl-framed, non-impact unit. Impact-rated doors, which dominate the coastal market and the 55-plus communities, start around $4,200 and run up to $6,500 for a standard 6-foot opening. Heavy-duty multi-panel sliders run $6,500 to $12,000 depending on width, panel count, and whether you need a reinforced header. Screen door installation adds $350 to $900 depending on frame material and mesh spec.
The price gap between an inland-spec door and a coastal-spec door is real: marine-grade hardware, stainless rollers, and impact-rated glazing add roughly 35 to 45 percent to the materials cost. But the inland-spec door on a home east of US-1 starts corroding within five years and needs replacement inside ten. The coastal spec runs twenty-five to thirty. Cheap costs more within a decade on this side of the Intracoastal.
Call (786) 743-5882 for an exact quote. Estimates are free, in writing, and the number on the estimate is the number on the contract. No change orders, no surprise line items.
We Also Serve Cities Near Delray Beach
While this page focuses on Delray Beach, our crews regularly work Sliding & Patio Doors in Delray Beach and the surrounding coastal corridor, including Boca Raton, Deerfield Beach, Coconut Creek, and Pompano Beach. If you are in one of those cities, the same team, the same warranty registration, and the same live-answer phone apply.
Serving Delray Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Delray Beach area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Sliding & Patio Doors in Delray Beach
Because Florida Building Code requires a Palm Beach County permit for any structural opening change, and deed-restricted communities in Delray Beach add a second layer: an HOA architectural review board that enforces its own design and product standards. Kings Point and similar communities often require Miami-Dade NOA documentation, color samples, and product spec sheets submitted weeks before the board’s monthly meeting. Miss the submission window and your signed contract’s start date moves back six to ten weeks. We prepare the HOA packet as part of our standard Delray Beach sales process, before we ever pull the county permit. Call (786) 743-5882 if you are in Kings Point, High Point, or Pines of Delray and want the paperwork handled start to finish.
Salt air near Delray Beach’s A1A corridor deposits chloride on aluminum frames, steel rollers, and stainless hardware every day. Chloride accelerates oxidation, pitting rollers and seizing tracks, and it breaks down the polymer seals on insulated glass panels until argon leaks out and the panel fogs. A sliding door that would last twenty-five years in inland Palm Beach County often fails mechanically in ten to fifteen years east of US-1. The fix is material selection: marine-grade finishes, sealed bearing rollers, and protected glazing seals. We spec those as standard on Delray Beach coastal jobs because we have replaced too many doors that were specified for a different climate. Call (786) 743-5882 to get an honest material recommendation for your exposure.
In most Delray Beach condos, a fogged panel means the insulated glass unit has lost its argon fill and the seal is dead. The panel can technically be swapped if the frame is still square and the hardware is sound, but in a 1980s or 1990s building near the water, the frame and hardware are usually at end of life too. Replacing just the glass often leaves you with a door that still binds and still leaks air. We give Delray Beach condo owners a written side-by-side: repair the panel, or replace the whole unit with an impact-rated door that clears the building’s current code requirements. The difference is usually a few thousand dollars, and the replacement is the only option that satisfies current wind-load standards. Call (786) 743-5882 for a free assessment.
Impact-rated means the door, frame, and glazing assembly has passed Miami-Dade County testing for wind-borne debris impact and cyclic wind pressure. The glass does not shatter into the room when struck, and the assembly holds together under hurricane wind loads. In Delray Beach, impact-rated upgrades are mandatory for any new sliding door installation in a structure that does not have hurricane shutters or other approved protection covering the opening. Original single-pane sliders from the 1970s through 1990s predate these requirements and cannot be retrofitted to meet them. If you are replacing a slider anywhere in Delray Beach, you are almost certainly required to install an impact-rated unit. Call (786) 743-5882 and we will confirm what your specific structure requires before you spend a dollar.
You do not need a screen door by code, but in Delray Beach you will want one unless you enjoy mosquitoes in the living room. The salt-air question is about materials. Standard aluminum screen frames from a big-box store corrode along the joints within three or four years east of US-1, and the mesh itself pits and tears from salt exposure. We install powder-coated frames and marine-grade mesh on Delray Beach jobs, which costs about $150 to $300 more than the cheap option and lasts roughly three times as long. If your new slider is going in a home east of Federal Highway, we will recommend the coastal screen spec and show you the price difference on paper. Call (786) 743-5882 for a quote that includes the screen rather than surprising you with it later.
Call TruePane Windows & Doors for Sliding & Patio Doors in Delray Beach
Whether you are in Kings Point waiting on an HOA review cycle or in a condo off A1A watching your track seize up, we are the company that answers the phone, shows up when we say, and registers both warranty layers before the truck leaves your driveway. A live person answers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (786) 743-5882. Seniors and veterans get a permanent 5% discount. Ask about the maintenance check if your current slider still works but is starting to drag. The free estimate is the number on the contract, and if the pane is not true, the job is not done.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Delray Beach and Palm Beach County since 2008.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose TruePane Windows & Doors
Impact systems engineered to design pressures up to +/-100, matched to your wind zone - your openings hold when the storm arrives.
Low-E insulated impact glass from our manufacturer lines commonly cuts monthly cooling bills 20-30%.
Laminated impact glass shuts out up to 40% of outside noise - traffic, neighbors, weather.
Monitoring services run $30-90 a month. Laminated impact glass resists forced entry around the clock, with no subscription.
Florida homeowners average around 25% savings on the windstorm portion of their policy after protecting every opening - some homes qualify for more.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.