Hello!
We are about to install our front door and I wanted to ask about the current price range. Aluminum front door with a glass side panel, gray on the outside and white on the inside. Our initial quotes are between 4300 and 5000 euros gross – including installation. Is that realistic or overpriced?
Thank you!
We are about to install our front door and I wanted to ask about the current price range. Aluminum front door with a glass side panel, gray on the outside and white on the inside. Our initial quotes are between 4300 and 5000 euros gross – including installation. Is that realistic or overpriced?
Thank you!
I would definitely get multiple quotes. In our case, the differences were quite significant. For visually similar doors from different manufacturers with almost identical features, the price varied by about €3,000. Even two quotes for front doors from the same manufacturer, same model, same features, differed by €1,000!
We are getting a front door without a sidelight. Made of aluminum, with triple glazing (laminated safety glass), a 5-point automatic lock, and a fingerprint scanner, anthracite textured finish on the outside, white on the inside, with flush-fitting panels on both sides. We are paying €3,600 including installation, which I think is very reasonable (we kept wondering if the seller had made a mistake). The manufacturer is Inotherm. Other quotes were on average between €4,500 and €5,000 including installation. As mentioned, no sidelight but with automatic lock, fingerprint scanner, and so on.
So, the price you mentioned seems realistic to me. However, it always depends on the door’s features. For example, a door with flush-mounted panels on both sides, 3-point locking without automatic locking or fingerprint scanner, and double glazing, in my opinion, would be rather expensive at that price. For “better” features, it’s not. But it might also depend on the region. We live in a rural area, where prices often tend to be lower.
We are getting a front door without a sidelight. Made of aluminum, with triple glazing (laminated safety glass), a 5-point automatic lock, and a fingerprint scanner, anthracite textured finish on the outside, white on the inside, with flush-fitting panels on both sides. We are paying €3,600 including installation, which I think is very reasonable (we kept wondering if the seller had made a mistake). The manufacturer is Inotherm. Other quotes were on average between €4,500 and €5,000 including installation. As mentioned, no sidelight but with automatic lock, fingerprint scanner, and so on.
So, the price you mentioned seems realistic to me. However, it always depends on the door’s features. For example, a door with flush-mounted panels on both sides, 3-point locking without automatic locking or fingerprint scanner, and double glazing, in my opinion, would be rather expensive at that price. For “better” features, it’s not. But it might also depend on the region. We live in a rural area, where prices often tend to be lower.
We have a rough opening width of 1.57m (5.15 feet). We were looking for a front door with a standard width and the remaining part as a fixed glass panel.
All prices mentioned here are gross and include installation.
There are cheap doors available for up to €500 plus the fixed panel, but their quality is very poor.
We visited several manufacturers. Basically, the process is that you choose a "panel" from one of the many catalogs, which defines the pattern/design. These catalogs are all quite similar. The door manufacturer then builds a frame around the panel.
Depending on the complexity of the panel, the prices offered by the door manufacturers start at €2,500–3,500 (plus approximately €500 for the fixed side panel). The door features are standard, meaning multipoint locking, triple glazing, insulated panel, and plastic (PVC).
Aluminum doors cost around €700–1,500 extra, depending on the model. Colored doors add €500–1,000 more, with a different color on the inside costing extra as well.
Overlay doors (so far only reasonably offered in aluminum) cost an additional €300–500 with aluminum. The last supplier explained that in the past, overlay doors were the cheaper option, and the non-overlay (profiled, considered more attractive) doors were more expensive. When aluminum doors entered the market, this was reversed, so now the extra cost for overlay is marketed as higher quality. This trend continues today. Ultimately, it is a matter of personal preference and not a functional difference.
All wooden door quotes we received were priced between the plastic and aluminum doors. We found the wooden door supplier not locally but via image search on Google. A local carpenter then made a counteroffer based on a photo from the other supplier (covered in another thread of mine with detailed features) and was slightly cheaper but with somewhat lower specifications.
In total, we contacted or visited about 10–20 suppliers and manufacturers before we had a clear picture of the features available. In my opinion, it is definitely worth asking around a lot. Above all, I got the impression that the smaller and more local the company, the better the price. Well-known manufacturers that you find immediately on Google and operate nationwide always charged higher prices.
The region is OWL.
All prices mentioned here are gross and include installation.
There are cheap doors available for up to €500 plus the fixed panel, but their quality is very poor.
We visited several manufacturers. Basically, the process is that you choose a "panel" from one of the many catalogs, which defines the pattern/design. These catalogs are all quite similar. The door manufacturer then builds a frame around the panel.
Depending on the complexity of the panel, the prices offered by the door manufacturers start at €2,500–3,500 (plus approximately €500 for the fixed side panel). The door features are standard, meaning multipoint locking, triple glazing, insulated panel, and plastic (PVC).
Aluminum doors cost around €700–1,500 extra, depending on the model. Colored doors add €500–1,000 more, with a different color on the inside costing extra as well.
Overlay doors (so far only reasonably offered in aluminum) cost an additional €300–500 with aluminum. The last supplier explained that in the past, overlay doors were the cheaper option, and the non-overlay (profiled, considered more attractive) doors were more expensive. When aluminum doors entered the market, this was reversed, so now the extra cost for overlay is marketed as higher quality. This trend continues today. Ultimately, it is a matter of personal preference and not a functional difference.
All wooden door quotes we received were priced between the plastic and aluminum doors. We found the wooden door supplier not locally but via image search on Google. A local carpenter then made a counteroffer based on a photo from the other supplier (covered in another thread of mine with detailed features) and was slightly cheaper but with somewhat lower specifications.
In total, we contacted or visited about 10–20 suppliers and manufacturers before we had a clear picture of the features available. In my opinion, it is definitely worth asking around a lot. Above all, I got the impression that the smaller and more local the company, the better the price. Well-known manufacturers that you find immediately on Google and operate nationwide always charged higher prices.
The region is OWL.
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