Booking a Visit
Prichard sits about 8 miles from our shop in Mobile, which is close enough that a new-door job doesn't turn into a half-day affair. When you call, we talk through what you've got now - most houses on your side of things went up around 1967, well before Mobile's broader service area median of 1983 - and that age gap matters because it usually means an older single-car or narrow double opening, sometimes with a header that was never built for a modern insulated door. We set a day to come out, measure the actual rough opening, and confirm track clearance before anything gets ordered. We don't run a local branch in Prichard - every job is a drive from Mobile - so we book the visit around a window that works for both of us rather than promising a same-hour arrival we can't back up.
What You Pay
We don't post a flat number here because door size, insulation level, and opener choice all move the price, but we will say this plainly: Prichard's median household income runs around $35,331, noticeably below the roughly $62,318 median across the wider Mobile service area, and that's part of why we walk through the full range of doors before you pick one - a basic steel door and a heavier insulated model aren't close in cost, and we'd rather you choose with real numbers in front of you than guess. If a wood-look steel door feels out of reach, there are plain steel options that hold up fine in this climate without the upgrade price.
How We Fix It
On a 1960s-era opening, the first job is confirming the rough opening and header are square and solid enough to carry new track and a heavier insulated panel - older framing sometimes needs a shim or a reinforced header before the new door goes in. We pull the old door and track completely, set new jamb brackets plumb, and run new torsion hardware sized to the door's actual weight rather than reusing worn springs from the old setup. If you're adding an opener at the same time, we run that wiring fresh rather than tying into old switch runs. One honest limit: if the header framing needs structural work beyond adding a reinforcement plate, that's carpentry outside what we do on an install day, and we'll say so before we start rather than mid-job.
How Long It Takes
A straightforward single-door swap on an opening that's already square usually runs a few hours start to finish. Add a header reinforcement, a wider double door, or an opener install on top of the door itself, and you're looking at a longer day. Because every job here is a drive from Mobile, we build the schedule around one visit doing the full job rather than splitting it into multiple trips - which also means if we hit a surprise, like rot in the jamb once the old door's off, we'll call it out on the spot instead of guessing at what's behind the trim.
