Storm door cost in Abilene, TX

Specs and site conditions that change a Abilene bid

• 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.

Related projects, priced for Abilene

Because every project leans on different trades, Abilene's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, window replacement runs −10% and patio door −15%.

Climate in Abilene: timing your storm door job

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

Abilene gets about 25 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 4 inches of snow. The wettest months are May, June and October (3.4 inches in June). Inside the workable window, January and December are the driest, at 1.1 and 1.3 inches. The station averages about 102 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.

Cost by quality level and size in Abilene

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

Of the five closest metros, none is cheaper than Abilene. Lubbock comes closest at about $560.

Across 300 US metros, Abilene comes in at #292 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $820; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $530 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Abilene is 7% below the Texas figure.

Other Texas metros

Cities with a workforce like Abilene's

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

Abilene labor market for storm door

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 Abilene is 0.74 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 80%) the local median is $20.69 an hour, which is 29% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $18.00 and $23.86 an hour. BLS counts 80 of them working in the area, 10.7 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 $20.64 an hour, 13% below the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $16.69 and $24.93 an hour. About 840 work in the metro. That is 111.9 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 ($23.86 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $25. At the 25th percentile ($18.00) it shrinks by about $20. The total moves by 4.1% or 3.5%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 75,070 jobs in the Abilene area. That makes it the 246th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.05% of US employment.