Storm door cost in Montgomery, AL

Montgomery against nearby metros and the rest of Alabama

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 $560 to $600 across Montgomery and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Montgomery comes in at #269 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $820; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $530 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Montgomery is 1% below the Alabama figure.

Other Alabama metros

Cities with a workforce like Montgomery's

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

Climate in Montgomery: timing your storm door job

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

September through May is the stretch where exterior installation runs into the fewest weather problems in Montgomery (9 of 12 months). June, July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Montgomery gets about 51 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are March, July and December (5.2 inches in March). Inside the workable window, September and October are the driest, at 3.7 and 2.9 inches. The station averages about 93 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.

Pick a size, pick a tier: storm door pricing in Montgomery

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Montgomery 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.

Planning more than one job in Montgomery?

Because every project leans on different trades, Montgomery's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, window replacement runs −8% and patio door −12%.

Why two Montgomery quotes can differ

• Replacing versus new

  Replacing an old storm door runs $400-$1,050 because the old door has to come off.

• Screens and features

  Self-storing and retractable screens, ventilating glass and security features all raise the price.

• Permit

  No permit fee is included in this estimate; storm doors rarely need one.

Montgomery labor market for storm door

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 Montgomery is 0.78 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 80%) the local median is $22.77 an hour, which is 22% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $17.72 and $26.19 an hour. BLS counts 300 of them working in the area, 18.1 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is thinner than average.

General maintenance and repair workers (49-9071), 20% of the weighting: a median of $18.59 an hour, 22% below the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $14.68 and $23.62 an hour. About 1,360 work in the metro. That is 82.2 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 98.4 nationally, so expect fewer local crews to bid.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the carpenters on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($26.19 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $25. At the 25th percentile ($17.72) it shrinks by about $35. The total moves by 4.3% or 6.3%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 165,550 jobs in the Montgomery area. That makes it the 142nd largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.11% of US employment.