Storm door cost in Chattanooga, TN

Is Chattanooga 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 $570 to $620 across Chattanooga and its five closest metros.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Chattanooga ranks #198 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Chattanooga is 0% below the Tennessee figure.

Elsewhere in Tennessee

Metros of a similar size

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

Chattanooga: what basic, standard and premium work costs

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to Chattanooga. 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.

What nearby projects cost in Chattanooga

Jobs that often go together with storm door are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Chattanooga wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, garage door comes out highest (−5%) and patio door lowest (−9%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

The best months for storm door in Chattanooga

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Chattanooga Lovell Ap (5 miles from the city center). They are 30-year averages, so any one year can run hotter, colder or wetter.

For exterior installation, the comfortable months in Chattanooga are September through June: 10 of 12. Outside them, July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Chattanooga gets about 55 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 4 inches of snow. The wettest months are March, July and December (5.3 inches in March). Inside the workable window, May and October are the driest, at 3.9 and 3.6 inches. The station averages about 58 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: Chattanooga 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 Chattanooga the blend is 0.86.

Carpenters (47-2031), 80% of the weighting: a median of $24.41 an hour, 16% below the US median of $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $22.40 and $29.19 an hour. About 620 work in the metro. That is 23.1 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 $22.68 an hour, which is 5% below the national $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $17.88 and $28.51 an hour. BLS counts 2,840 of them working in the area, 105.7 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 $35 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $15. That is a swing of roughly 2.4% to 5.8% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Chattanooga has 268,750 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 98th by size among the 300 metros on this site.

Specs and site conditions that change a Chattanooga bid

• 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.