Storm door cost in Akron, OH

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

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

How Akron compares

Same job, same size (1 door), priced for the nearest metros. Pittsburgh is the priciest of the group at $650. Wheeling is the cheapest at $590.

Across 300 US metros, Akron comes in at #121 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $820; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $530 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Akron is 0% below the Ohio figure.

Other Ohio metros

Cities with a workforce like Akron's

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

When to schedule storm door in Akron

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

March through November is the stretch where exterior installation runs into the fewest weather problems in Akron (9 of 12 months). January, February and December have an average daytime high under 45°F.

In January, February and December the average high stays below 45°F. Sealants, adhesives and some materials, such as vinyl, are harder to install well in the cold, and short daylight cuts the working day.

Akron gets about 33 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are May, June and July (3.7 inches in June). Inside the workable window, March and November are the driest, at 2.5 and 2.3 inches. The station averages about 14 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.

Why two Akron 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.

Planning more than one job in Akron?

Because every project leans on different trades, Akron's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, patio door runs −2% and front door −4%.

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 Akron is 1.02 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 80%) the local median is $29.36 an hour, which is in line with the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $24.61 and $37.10 an hour. BLS counts 980 of them working in the area, 30.7 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 $25.20 an hour, 6% above the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $21.46 and $30.39 an hour. About 3,560 work in the metro. That is 111.4 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 ($37.10 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $55. At the 25th percentile ($24.61) it shrinks by about $35. The total moves by 8.9% or 5.4%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 319,560 jobs in the Akron area. That makes it the 80th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.21% of US employment.