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CGI Door Installation: The Palm Beach Owner’s Guide

CGI door installation in Palm Beach typically runs $2,800 to $6,500 installed, depending on the door type, size, and whether you’re replacing a single panel or a full system with frame. We keep the most common CGI hinges, rollers, weatherstripping, and hardware on our trucks, and most parts swaps are done in a single visit. What usually brings a Palm Beach homeowner to this page is a door that no longer closes square, a roller that grinds, or a weatherseal that’s letting salt air and afternoon rain find its way inside. Sometimes it’s a door that still looks fine but doesn’t lock the way it did when the house was new.

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We’re an independent service provider, not affiliated with CGI, but we’re an authorized installer for CGI and we’ve been setting and servicing their doors across Palm Beach for years. If you’ve got a CGI door giving you trouble, here’s what you need to know before you spend a dollar.

Which CGI Models This Applies To

CGI makes two broad families that show up in Palm Beach homes: their hinged impact doors (the Sentinel and Estate lines) and their sliding impact doors (including the Estate Sliding and the newer sliding configurations built for coastal exposure). The hinge, roller, and weatherseal components differ between them, and that’s where most install jobs go sideways if someone grabs whatever’s on the shelf.

Here’s the compatibility gotcha that’s caught more than a few homeowners: CGI’s hinged doors with the Estate line use a heavier-gauge hinge than their standard Sentinel line, and they are not interchangeable without re-mortising the door slab. The hinge looks close enough to the eye, but the screw pattern is off by a quarter inch. We’ve had to fix doors where someone forced the wrong hinge in and stripped the frame. The way to identify your door is the label on the hinge edge of the slab, it carries the model, the manufacturing date, and the approval numbers. If that label is gone, we measure the slab thickness and the hinge plate to confirm before ordering anything.

For rollers on the sliding doors, OEM CGI rollers are stainless-steel-housed and built for the salt air we live with. A galvanized aftermarket roller from a big-box store will run fine for a year, then bind. In Palm Beach’s coastal air, that’s the difference between a roller that lasts fifteen years and one that dies in three. We stock both OEM CGI parts and, where a quality aftermarket equivalent exists, we’ll tell you plainly which one makes sense for your door and your budget. We don’t install anything we wouldn’t put on our own houses.

Signs Your CGI Door Installation Is Failing

• The door scrapes the jamb or won’t close square. This is almost always hinge wear or a frame that’s settled out of plane. On a CGI impact door, which is heavy, a worn top hinge lets the slab drop just enough to bind at the bottom corner. You can see it as a rub mark on the threshold.
• The door cranks or grinds when you open it. On sliding CGI doors, a grinding track usually means a flat roller with a shot bearing. The door still moves, so people ignore it. The abuse that puts on the track means you’ll eventually be replacing the track, not just the rollers.
• Daylight at the threshold or along the side jambs. That gap means the weatherseal has compressed past the point of doing its job, or the door has dropped. On a windy afternoon in Palm Beach, that gap is also how rain drives in sideways during a summer storm.
• The door locks but gives too much when you lean on it. Impact-rated doors are supposed to flex under storm load and return, but when a hinge or the strike plate is loose, the door flexes when it shouldn’t. That’s metal fatigue in the making.
• Hardware that’s tarnished, pitted, or starting to seize. Salt air on Palm Beach does not negotiate. Even stainless hardware eventually pits if the finish was compromised during an earlier install. We see it most on doors closer to the Intracoastal or the ocean side.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

The honest range for CGI door installation in Palm Beach breaks down like this:

• Hinge replacement (pair or set): $180 to $420 installed, parts included.
• Roller replacement on a sliding door: $240 to $520, depending on whether we’re doing just the rollers or the track as well.
• Weatherseal and threshold replacement: $150 to $380 installed.
• Full door slab with existing frame (hinged): $2,800 to $4,800 installed.
• Full sliding door system: $3,500 to $6,500 installed.

Every line-item quote we give you is written on paper, with the part number, the labor, and exactly what happens to the old parts. The price we quote is the price you pay. We don’t do change orders unless you ask us to expand the scope. And every installation is covered by our Done Right Promise, with The Keystone Standard behind it: both warranty layers registered in writing, durations stated, before the truck leaves your driveway.

Call (850) 801-5596 for an exact quote. Estimates are free, and you’ll get a number you can plan around.

DIY or Call Us?

There are things an owner can check before calling us: whether the door is visibly sagging, whether the rollers are flat or cracked, whether the weatherseal is compressed or torn, whether the hinges show wear or loose screws. Look, don’t wrench. Here’s the honest split.

A hinged CGI impact door is heavy. The slab alone weighs more than most people expect, and a worn hinge with the slab off is a pinched-finger waiting to happen. Rollers on the sliding doors ride on a track with built-in keepers designed to stop the door from lifting out in a storm. They also make replacement an exercise in patience if you don’t know the release sequence. The springs and tension points on older models are under real load. If you’re handy and it’s a simple weatherseal swap, that’s fair game if you get the right profile. For anything structural, schedule the service call. Call (850) 801-5596 and we’ll send someone who’s done this work across Palm Beach for years.

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