New windows and doors improve comfort, cut energy bills and add long-term value to your home. Westlight Windows Los Angeles pairs proven product lines with our own installing crews for lasting performance - and a price we put in writing.
Choose your installer
The unit is half the job - the install is the other half. Our own background-checked crews measure, set, seal and insulate every opening, and they know the lines we quote inside and out because they install them every week.
Select the right products
Compare styles, materials and glass packages side by side until the fit is right for your rooms, your budget and your goals. The product-line comparison below is the place to start.
Prepare your home for install
Before install day we walk you through a short checklist - furniture pulled back, treatments down, a clear path to each opening - so install day is watch-it-happen, not scramble.
Compare the Lines We Quote
Every project is priced on the same lines, side by side - the price indicators below are relative, and your consultant shows exact numbers on your actual openings.
PGTThe line homeowners arrive naming - the most impact certifications in the industry$$$
- More impact certifications than any other line we quote
- WinGuard, EnergyVue and ClassicVue Max systems built for every wind zone
- 99% on-time delivery keeps your install date on the calendar
CGIThe heavyweight impact line$$$$$
- Large-missile impact ratings for the strictest wind zones
- Architectural-grade aluminum with commercial-depth frames
- The line we quote when protection is the whole point
CWSThe value pick$$
- Vinyl systems built to strict wind codes
- Strong energy packages at the friendliest price point
- The smart start for whole-home replacements on a budget
ESWSlim lines, big glass$$$$
- Narrow-sightline aluminum for modern elevations
- Oversized openings and floor-to-ceiling glass
- Impact-rated without the bunker look
ECOThe aluminum impact workhorse$$$
- Factory-built aluminum impact systems
- A strong price-to-protection ratio for coastal homes
- Proven inventory lines with short lead times
Fast, Reliable Door Installation Across North Hollywood
Door installation in North Hollywood runs $450 – $1,200 for a basic interior door, $1,400 – $3,800 for an entry door, and $2,200 – $5,500 for a sliding glass door, depending on rough opening size, material, and whether the existing frame is salvageable. Most jobs take one to two days once the door is on site. If you’re calling from a 1950s ranch off Victory or a mid-century apartment building near the NoHo Arts District, we already know what your rough openings look like, because we’ve measured hundreds of them.
Call (213) 810-3461 for a free estimate. Owen Satterfield runs our crew, and he’ll give you a written price before any work starts. That’s the Kingswell Way, and we put it in writing on every job.
Why Westlight Windows Los Angeles Is North Hollywood’s Preferred Door Installation Company
We’re an independently owned and operated Kingswell location, founded in 2009, and we’ve spent years working the exact housing stock North Hollywood was built on: 1940s and 1950s ranch homes on oversized lots, plus stucco apartment buildings from the next two decades. That matters because the rough openings in these houses almost never match what’s on the shelf at a big box store. Original doors in this neighborhood are often 74×78 or 76×80, well below modern code, and a prehung door will not fit without cutting into load-bearing studs. We do that work the right way, with reframing and a written guarantee, not with shims and hope.
Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, so you know exactly who’s walking up your driveway. Every job gets the Kingswell Guarantee: a written price before work starts, a committed arrival window, a clean job site, and a written guarantee on the completed work. If a door we installed fails within the guarantee period, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s not a marketing line. It’s the 365-Day Done Right Promise, and it’s on paper before we touch a single screw.
Our Door Installation team carries eight manufacturer lines, including PGT, CGI, CWS, ES Windows, ECO Window Systems, Mr-Glass, Therma-Tru, and ViewLux, so we match the product to your house instead of forcing your house to fit one brand. When you call, a live person answers, 24/7. Not a voicemail box. Not a chatbot. A real human who can schedule the estimate.
Sliding Glass Door Replacement in North Hollywood
Sliding Glass Door Replacement in North Hollywood typically runs $2,200 – $5,500 installed, and on most of the ranch homes between Burbank Boulevard and Sherman Way, the old aluminum slider has been binding and leaking for years before anyone calls us. These doors take a beating from the Santa Ana winds and the late-afternoon sun, and once the rollers wear out and the track gets warped, the door starts eating itself. By the time we see it, the frame is usually twisted and the rough opening needs reframing before a new door goes in.
Rough Opening Work on 1950s Ranch Homes
Original sliders in many North Hollywood ranches sit in rough openings that are narrower and shorter than anything made today. A standard 72×80 sliding door will not fit a 70×78 opening without cutting into the header or jack studs. We reframe the opening, bring it to code, and install the new door level, square, and sealed. That’s the difference between a door that slides like it’s on bearings and one that fights you for ten years.
Impact-Rated Options for Wind-Exposed Lots
Homes along the rear side of deep lots near the Tujunga Wash and blocks south of Victory face the full force of the Santa Ana wind corridor. We regularly spec impact-rated sliding doors from PGT or ViewLux with impact certification ratings for these exposures. An impact-rated slider runs $4,000 – $5,500 installed on a reframed opening, and it buys you windborne-debris protection that a standard door simply does not have.
Storm Door Installation in North Hollywood
Storm Door Installation in North Hollywood runs $650 – $1,600 installed, and it’s one of the most underrated upgrades we do on the older ranch homes near Chandler Boulevard and the streets north of Magnolia. A storm door gives you cross-ventilation on hot days, blocks UV from fading your entry door, and adds a layer of security you can see through before you open the main door. On those 1950s houses with original wood entry doors that have swollen and shrunk through sixty summers, a storm door is the cheapest way to stop drafts without replacing the whole entry system.
Full-View vs. Ventilation Storm Doors
Full-view storm doors with low-e glass let you see the porch and keep the main door safe from direct sun. Ventilation models with retractable screens trade a little visibility for more airflow. For most North Hollywood ranch homes with west-facing entries, we recommend full-view glass with a thermal break, because the late-afternoon sun will absolutely warp a hollow aluminum storm door within three or four summers. A full-view ViewLux storm door runs about $900 – $1,400 installed, including hardware and weatherstripping.
Custom Sizing for Non-Standard Entries
If your entry rough opening was cut in 1952, it probably is not a standard 36×80. Many of the ranch houses in this neighborhood have entries that are 34 or 35 inches wide, or 78 inches tall, or both. We order custom-sized storm doors to fit the opening as it is, not the opening a manufacturer wishes you had. A custom-sized storm door in North Hollywood runs $1,000 – $1,600 installed, and it means no one has to hack apart your stucco or your threshold.
Trusted Brands We Service in North Hollywood
We stock parts and doors from Therma-Tru, ViewLux, and PGT for North Hollywood customers, which means faster turnaround when your door fails and no six-week wait for a replacement panel from a warehouse in another state. If you need a hurricane-rated entry door for a rear exposure that catches the Santa Anas, PGT and CGI are on our truck more weeks than not. If you want a fiberglass door that will not warp on a west-facing side entry, Therma-Tru is the line we spec most often. The right brand for your house is the one that matches the opening, the exposure, and the use. We carry eight lines so we can be honest about which one that is.
Common Door Installation Problems We See in North Hollywood Homes
- Undersized rough openings on original ranch houses. Doors cut in the 1940s and 1950s were frequently framed to 74×78 or 76×80. Modern prehung doors are built for 80×82 or larger, so we have to reframe before we can hang anything.
- Settling detached structures. Converted garages, backyard offices, and detached workshops in North Hollywood often sit on separate slabs from the main house. When those two slabs move at different rates through the rainy season, a new sliding door on the addition binds until the track is shimmed and re-squared.
- UV damage on south- and west-facing doors. A hollow steel door with no thermal break will bow and stick within a few summers of full sun exposure here. Most owners think it’s a hinge problem and call us for a hinge repair, when the actual fix is a fiberglass or insulated steel door with a proper core.
- Louvered jalousie doors on back porches. Along Chandler Boulevard and the streets north of Victory, many original ranch homes still have jalousie doors leading to back porches or utility rooms. They leak air badly, but their rough openings are non-standard, so replacing one always involves custom sizing rather than an off-the-shelf unit.
Pricing for Door Installation in North Hollywood, CA
Here’s what you will actually pay, based on our last three years of quotes in this specific housing market. Interior door installation runs $450 – $1,200 per door, including hardware and trim. Entry door replacement runs $1,400 – $3,800, with fiberglass Therma-Tru doors at the higher end when the opening needs reframing. Sliding glass door replacement runs $2,200 – $5,500, with impact-rated ViewLux or PGT units at the top of that range. Storm door installation runs $650 – $1,600. What moves the price: the rough opening size, the exposure, whether the door is on a main house or a detached structure, and whether we have to haul materials down a long gravel driveway with no crane access. Every quote includes a written line-item price before work starts. Call (213) 810-3461 and we will scope it properly.
We Also Serve Cities Near North Hollywood
Beyond North Hollywood, our crews serve Sun Valley, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica. If you own a property in one of those cities, you get the same written-price guarantee, the same eight manufacturer lines, and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise. Dispatch and scheduling run through our Los Angeles office, and crews work locally in your neighborhood.
Serving North Hollywood, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the North Hollywood 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 About Door Installation in North Hollywood
Detached garages and workshops on oversized North Hollywood lots often fall under Los Angeles County jurisdiction rather than City of Los Angeles permitting, depending on the original parcel map and how the structure was recorded. A like-for-like door swap on a detached structure usually does not require a permit, but changing the rough opening size or cutting a new opening in a load-bearing wall often does. We pull permits and schedule inspections when they’re required, and we tell you before quoting whether your specific structure will need one. Call (213) 810-3461 and we’ll check your parcel before we quote.
Usually yes, but it requires reframing. The jalousie doors and windows on those back porches sit in rough openings sized for 1960s aluminum frames, not modern sliding glass doors. We remove the old jamb, reframe the opening to a standard 72×80 or wider if the header allows, and install a properly flashed, code-compliant sliding door. The framing work adds $800 – $1,500 to the job, and we’ll quote it as a separate line item so you see exactly what you’re paying for. Most of these projects finish in two days.
North Hollywood is not in a coastal windborne-debris zone, so impact-rated doors are not required by code here. But if your rear exposure faces the Santa Ana wind corridor, or your house sits on a deep lot with no windbreak between you and the Tujunga Wash, an impact-rated sliding door from PGT or ViewLux is worth considering. Windborne debris in a strong Santa Ana event is a real hazard, and a standard aluminum slider will not hold up. Impact-rated doors run $4,000 – $5,500 installed on a reframed opening. We’ll tell you if your lot actually warrants one or if a standard door is fine. Call (213) 810-3461 for an honest read.
We scope the access before we ever give you a number. On a deep lot with a gravel or dirt driveway and no crane access, we add an extra field-crew day for material staging and interior drywall return, because a 400-pound sliding glass door does not carry itself down 200 feet of gravel. We factor that labor into the quote as a separate line item, usually $300 – $700 depending on the distance and terrain. We recently scoped a sliding glass door replacement for a 1953 ranch on a deep lot near Victory and Vineland that still had its original steel casement on the back porch and a louvered jalousie door leading to a detached workshop. The owner wanted a hurricane-rated ViewLux sliding door with impact-rated glazing and an impact certification because the house sits far from the street and the rear exposure faces the Santa Ana wind corridor. We had to remove the old jamb, reframe the rough opening to a standard 72×80, and then haul the new 400-pound door down a 200-foot gravel driveway, no crane access, so we added an extra field-crew day for material staging and drywall return on the interior.
North Hollywood’s housing stock has more non-standard rough openings than Burbank’s, particularly on the 1940s and 1950s ranch homes with detached garages and original framing. A custom-sized Therma-Tru entry door runs $2,500 – $3,800 in North Hollywood because the manufacturer has to build it to your exact rough opening dimensions rather than off a standard 36×80 template, and because we often have to reframe the opening or rebuild the threshold before the new door goes in. In Burbank, where newer post-war construction has more standard 80×82 openings, the same door runs $1,800 – $2,400. You’re not paying more because we charge more. You’re paying more because your house was framed in 1955 and standard doors never fit it. Call (213) 810-3461 and we’ll measure the actual opening before we quote.
Get Your Written Quote for Door Installation in North Hollywood
If you have doors that stick, bind, leak, or simply do not fit right because your house was framed in 1952, we can fix that. Call Owen Satterfield at (213) 810-3461 or have us come out and measure. You’ll get a written line-item price before any work starts, an arrival window we actually keep, a clean job site, and a written guarantee on the completed work. That’s the whole deal. No revised invoices. No door-step surprises. Just straight talk and work that holds up through the next sixty North Hollywood summers.
Written by Owen Satterfield, Owner at Westlight Windows Los Angeles, serving North Hollywood since 2009.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose Westlight Windows Los Angeles
Laminated glass and reinforced frames hold up to wind-driven rain, hail and flying debris, so your openings stay sealed when the weather turns.
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.
Tighter seals and insulated glass even out hot and cold rooms and stop the drafts at the frame.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.