Entry Door Installation in Melville, NY

Two real ones. They’re heavy — a double runs 600 to 900 pounds, so the header and framing have to be sound, which is why we check at the measure and not on install day. And steel conducts cold: in a sustained deep freeze you can see condensation on the interior face of any metal door. Ours are foam-insulated in both the slab and the frame, with dual-pane Low-E argon glass and heavy weatherstripping around the jamb and every glass frame, which is what keeps that to a minimum. If any of those are dealbreakers, a fiberglass door is a legitimate choice and we’ll tell you so.

A lot of Melville’s housing stock is newer than what we see closer to Old Bethpage, and steel’s thinner sightlines tend to suit that newer construction — more glass, a cleaner line. The older homes nearer Huntington village still lean iron. We build both at similar prices, so it comes down to the house.

You’re not fighting salt air out here the way a waterfront Huntington job might. What actually wears a finish down inland is UV and a weld that wasn’t sealed right. Same seven-step finish on every door regardless, and the same two-year warranty on it.

In a sustained deep freeze you can get condensation on the interior face of any metal door. That’s physics, not a defect, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. What we do about it: polyurethane foam injected into both the slab and the frame, dual-pane argon-filled Low-E tempered glass, and heavy weatherstripping around the jamb and around every glass frame. Two things in the house make it worse — high indoor humidity and a heat vent blowing straight at the door — and we’ll walk you through both at the measure.

Melville falls under the Town of Huntington, not Oyster Bay, so the building department is a different office than the one that covers our own shop. A like-for-like replacement in an existing opening usually doesn’t trigger a permit there either, but we confirm it before you order, not after.

On the newer Melville construction it’s less common than on an older Long Island colonial, but it still happens, usually from settling. We laser-measure every opening regardless of the house’s age, and if something needs rebuilding you get that number at the measure.

One day. Old unit out and new unit in happens inside the same few hours — we set the frame plumb, foam and seal it, hang the hardware, and clean up before dark. You sleep behind your new door that night. Drywall and paint are a return visit; we can’t finish those on day one.