Storm door cost in Kahului, HI

Cost by quality level and size in Kahului

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

When to schedule storm door in Kahului

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Kahului Ap (5 miles from the city center). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

October through July is the stretch where exterior installation runs into the fewest weather problems in Kahului (10 of 12 months). August and September have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Kahului gets about 16 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are January, March and December (2.8 inches in December). Inside the workable window, June and July are the driest, at 0.2 and 0.5 inches. The station averages about 39 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 Kahului 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 $730 to $820 across Kahului and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Kahului comes in at #3 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $820; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $530 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Kahului is 1% below the Hawaii figure.

Other Hawaii metros

Cities with a workforce like Kahului's

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

Related projects, priced for Kahului

Because every project leans on different trades, Kahului's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, patio door runs +24% and front door +18%.

Storm door: what moves the price in Kahului

• 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.

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 Kahului is 1.34 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 80%) the local median is $39.47 an hour, which is 36% above the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $30.77 and $48.89 an hour. BLS counts 700 of them working in the area, 94.9 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is deeper than average.

General maintenance and repair workers (49-9071), 20% of the weighting: a median of $30.76 an hour, 29% above the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $27.16 and $38.06 an hour. About 1,350 work in the metro. That is 183.1 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 98.4 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the carpenters on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($48.89 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $70. At the 25th percentile ($30.77) it shrinks by about $65. The total moves by 8.7% or 8.0%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 73,750 jobs in the Kahului-Wailuku area. That makes it the 250th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.05% of US employment.