Storm door cost in Richmond, VA

Planning more than one job in Richmond?

Jobs that often go together with storm door are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Richmond wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, window replacement comes out highest (−4%) and patio door lowest (−6%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

Richmond weather and the storm door calendar

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Richmond Intl Ap (10 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 Richmond are August through June: 11 of 12. Outside them, July has an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Richmond gets about 46 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 9 inches of snow. The wettest months are June, August and September (4.9 inches in August). Inside the workable window, February and November are the driest, at 2.6 and 3.1 inches. The station averages about 45 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.

How Richmond compares

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 $590 to $680 across Richmond and its five closest metros.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Richmond ranks #172 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Richmond is 4% below the Virginia figure.

Elsewhere in Virginia

Metros of a similar size

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

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

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

Why two Richmond 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.

What local crews earn in Richmond

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 Richmond the blend is 0.88.

Carpenters (47-2031), 80% of the weighting: a median of $24.94 an hour, 14% below the US median of $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $22.42 and $28.84 an hour. About 3,070 work in the metro. That is 46.5 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 43.1 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

For general maintenance and repair workers (49-9071, weighted 20%) the local median is $23.43 an hour, which is in line with the national $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $18.79 and $29.17 an hour. BLS counts 5,520 of them working in the area, 83.6 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 98.4), so the local bench is thinner than average.

A quick sensitivity check: moving the lead trade (carpenters) from the median to the 75th percentile wage adds about $30 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $20. That is a swing of roughly 3.0% to 4.6% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Richmond has 660,350 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 45th by size among the 300 metros on this site.