Storm door cost in Winston, NC

Is Winston cheap or dear? The local comparison

Same job, same size (1 door), priced for the nearest metros. Durham is the priciest of the group at $610. Hickory is the cheapest at $590.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Winston ranks #201 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Winston is 0% above the North Carolina figure.

Elsewhere in North Carolina

Metros of a similar size

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

Planning more than one job in Winston?

Jobs that often go together with storm door are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Winston wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, front door comes out highest (−7%) and patio door lowest (−10%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

The best months for storm door in Winston

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Winston Salem Rynlds Ap (10 miles from the city center). They are 30-year averages, so any one year can run hotter, colder or wetter.

Weather is not a serious constraint for exterior installation in Winston: 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.

Winston gets about 43 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are July, August and September (4.5 inches in August). The station averages about 33 days a year at 90°F or above.

We do not adjust the estimate by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. It is still worth asking contractors whether an off-peak start date changes their bid.

Who does the work: Winston trade wages

The labor line is built from BLS wage data, one trade at a time. This job draws on 2 trades. We compare each trade's local median with the US median, weight the ratios by how much of the job each trade does, and apply the blend to the national labor cost. For Winston the blend is 0.85.

Carpenters (47-2031), 80% of the weighting: a median of $24.01 an hour, 18% below the US median of $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $20.95 and $27.79 an hour. About 510 work in the metro. That is 18.8 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 43.1 nationally, so expect fewer local crews to bid.

For general maintenance and repair workers (49-9071, weighted 20%) the local median is $22.64 an hour, which is 5% below the national $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $18.30 and $28.81 an hour. BLS counts 2,480 of them working in the area, 91.2 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 98.4), so the local bench is about average.

A quick sensitivity check: moving the lead trade (carpenters) from the median to the 75th percentile wage adds about $25 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $20. That is a swing of roughly 3.7% to 4.6% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Winston-Salem has 271,980 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 94th by size among the 300 metros on this site.

Why two Winston quotes can differ

• Door style

  A mid-view door is $350-$700 installed, a full-view door $425-$950, and a low-E full-view door $475-$1,000 (HomeGuide).

• 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.

Cost by quality level and size in Winston

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to Winston. Bands overlap, because plenty of standard jobs cost as much as a light premium one. Sizes run from one storm door to front and back doors.