Storm door cost in Alexandria, LA

When to schedule storm door in Alexandria

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

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

Alexandria gets about 61 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are January, November and December (6.1 inches in January). Inside the workable window, May and September are the driest, at 4.6 and 4.0 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 Alexandria

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

Storm door: what moves the price in Alexandria

• 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 Alexandria is 0.79 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 80%) the local median is $22.48 an hour, which is 23% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $18.58 and $26.89 an hour. BLS counts 180 of them working in the area, 30.0 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 $20.65 an hour, 13% below the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $15.06 and $25.96 an hour. About 630 work in the metro. That is 105.0 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 ($26.89 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $30. At the 25th percentile ($18.58) it shrinks by about $30. The total moves by 5.6% or 4.9%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 60,000 jobs in the Alexandria area. That makes it the 288th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.04% of US employment.

How Alexandria compares

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 $570 to $600 across Alexandria and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Alexandria comes in at #285 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $820; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $530 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Alexandria is 2% below the Louisiana figure.

Other Louisiana metros

Cities with a workforce like Alexandria's

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

What nearby projects cost in Alexandria

Because every project leans on different trades, Alexandria's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, window replacement runs −10% and patio door −13%.