Front door cost in Knoxville, TN

Related projects, priced for Knoxville

Because every project leans on different trades, Knoxville's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, window replacement runs −7% and patio door −9%.

Pick a size, pick a tier: front door pricing in Knoxville

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Knoxville wages and prices. They overlap on purpose: a good standard job and a modest premium job can cost the same. The grid below prices the same bands at 2 common sizes.

Local wages behind the labor line

Wages are the part of this estimate that changes most from town to town. 2 trades carry the job here, and each is compared with its US median. The weighted result for Knoxville is 0.85 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 85%) the local median is $24.23 an hour, which is 17% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $22.11 and $28.56 an hour. BLS counts 1,280 of them working in the area, 30.1 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is thinner than average.

General maintenance and repair workers (49-9071), 15% of the weighting: a median of $22.20 an hour, 7% below the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $17.87 and $27.79 an hour. About 4,640 work in the metro. That is 109.3 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 98.4 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the carpenters on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($28.56 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $50. At the 25th percentile ($22.11) it shrinks by about $25. The total moves by 3.6% or 1.8%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 424,600 jobs in the Knoxville area. That makes it the 59th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.27% of US employment.

Specs and site conditions that change a Knoxville bid

• Door material

  Basic steel doors run about $200-$600 for the door; fiberglass and wood go to $2,000 (HomeGuide).

• Double doors

  A double front door costs $1,500-$6,500+ installed; the doors alone are $1,200-$5,000.

• Frame

  Frame repair adds $75-$200+; rebuilding the opening for a new size costs $7-$20 per linear foot for framing.

When to schedule front door in Knoxville

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Knoxville Mcghee Tyson Ap (10 miles from the city center). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

Weather is not a serious constraint for exterior installation in Knoxville: no month in the averages is cold enough (an average daytime high under 45°F) or hot enough (an average daytime high of 90°F or more) to rule it out, so the workable window is all year.

Knoxville gets about 52 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 5 inches of snow. The wettest months are March, July and December (5.3 inches in July). The station averages about 37 days a year at 90°F or above.

Does the season change the price? Probably, but we do not have a sourced seasonal price curve, so the estimator shows a year-round figure and does not adjust by month. When you collect quotes, ask whether scheduling in a slower month gets a better rate.

Is Knoxville cheap or dear? The local comparison

Contractors rarely work more than an hour or two from home, so the neighboring metros set a rough ceiling and floor for your quotes. Midpoints for 1 door range from $1,350 to $1,400 across Knoxville and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Knoxville comes in at #200 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $1,800; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $1,300 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Knoxville is 0% below the Tennessee figure.

Other Tennessee metros

Cities with a workforce like Knoxville's

Big cities and small ones price differently, so here is Knoxville against the 4 metros with the closest total employment.