Storm door cost in Lafayette, LA

Lafayette against nearby metros and the rest of Louisiana

Same job, same size (1 door), priced for the nearest metros. Beaumont is the priciest of the group at $610. Alexandria is the cheapest at $570.

Across 300 US metros, Lafayette comes in at #283 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $820; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $530 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Lafayette is 2% below the Louisiana figure.

Other Louisiana metros

Cities with a workforce like Lafayette's

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

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 Lafayette is 0.79 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 80%) the local median is $22.81 an hour, which is 22% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $18.55 and $27.69 an hour. BLS counts 580 of them working in the area, 32.3 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 $19.68 an hour, 17% below the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $16.12 and $23.30 an hour. About 2,100 work in the metro. That is 116.9 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 ($27.69 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $35. At the 25th percentile ($18.55) it shrinks by about $30. The total moves by 6.2% or 5.4%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 179,570 jobs in the Lafayette area. That makes it the 129th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.12% of US employment.

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

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

• 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.

When to schedule storm door in Lafayette

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Lafayette Rgnl Ap (5 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 Lafayette (9 of 12 months). June, July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Lafayette gets about 63 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are June, July and August (7.1 inches in June). Inside the workable window, February and March are the driest, at 4.1 and 3.7 inches. The station averages about 91 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.

What nearby projects cost in Lafayette

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