Entry Doors

Entry Doors in Delray Beach, FL | TruePane Windows & Doors

An entry door in Delray Beach does more than welcome guests. It stands between your living room and a Category 4 storm. Our Entry Doors are Therma-Tru fiberglass and steel systems engineered for Florida’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, carrying Miami-Dade NOA and Florida Product Approval numbers per configuration, and installed by our own crew to AAMA 2400/2410 practice. If you’re replacing a front door, upgrading a side entry, or building new construction that needs to pass Delray Beach permitting, this is the product category we lead with. Call (561) 940-2917 to start with a free on-site measurement.

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Product Overview - Entry Doors

Entry doors in South Florida carry a dual burden: they have to look like they belong on a Delray Beach home and perform like a piece of storm armor. Most doors fail at reconciling those two things. The Therma-Tru fiberglass and steel systems we install in Delray Beach are the exception. They’re built around a reinforced core and impact-rated glass packages that hold their rating without looking like a bank vault door.

The fiberglass option is the one most Delray Beach homeowners choose for front entries. It gives you the look of painted wood with none of the swelling, warping, or rot that coastal humidity brings. It takes a factory finish beautifully and doesn’t telegraph “hurricane product” from the curb. The steel option makes more sense for side entries, garage-to-home doors, or anywhere you want maximum rigidity in a narrower profile. Both are available up to 48 inches wide, which covers most single-door openings in the older Delray neighborhoods like Lake Ida and the newer builds west of I-95.

What separates these from a generic home-center door is the glass. You have three choices: a decorative impact glass insert, a Low-E insulated impact glass insert, or no glass at all. Each one gets laminated glass behind the aesthetic layer, which is where the impact rating lives. The door is the system, not just the slab.

TruePane Windows & Doors installs these entry doors across our Therma-Tru lines throughout Delray Beach and Palm Beach County. We’re the crew that pulls the old jamb, finds the rot the last installer covered up, and sets the new unit square so the NOA rating actually means something. A rated door installed badly is just an expensive regular door.

Technical Specifications

The following specs reflect the configurations we order for Delray Beach homes. Exact dimensions and design pressures get confirmed on your specific quote, because the NOA is configuration-specific.

• Frame materials: Fiberglass (paintable woodgrain finish available) or steel
• Maximum width: Up to 48 inches
• Glass options: Decorative impact glass insert, Low-E insulated impact glass insert, or solid panel (no glass)
• Color and finish options: White, black, bronze, or paintable woodgrain finish
• Design pressure: Matched to your wind zone, up to +/-100, never higher
• Compliance documents: Miami-Dade NOA and Florida Product Approval numbers issued per configuration
• Engineering basis: Florida Building Code (FBC) High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) requirements
• Installation standard: AAMA 2400/2410 practice with AAMA 812 low-expansion foam perimeter sealant

Hurricane & Compliance Performance

Every entry door we install in Delray Beach has to satisfy two audiences: the building official who reviews your permit and the storm that eventually tests the work. Here’s how this product line handles both.

Laminated Impact Glass

Every glass insert carries a PVB (polyvinyl butyral) interlayer sandwiched between glass panes. Under impact, the glass cracks but stays in the frame as a single sheet. That stops wind from entering the home, which is what turns a broken window into a blown roof. If your door has glass, this is non-negotiable.

Miami-Dade NOA / Florida Product Approval

Each configuration we order carries a Miami-Dade NOA (Notice of Acceptance) or Florida Product Approval number. These are issued per configuration, not per product family, so the numbers on your specific quote are the ones your permit reviewer will check. We provide that documentation with every Delray Beach order.

FBC / HVHZ Compliance

These entry doors are engineered to Florida Building Code High-Velocity Hurricane Zone requirements. Delray Beach sits inside the HVHZ, which has stricter wind and impact provisions than most of the country. Products designed for this zone are tested to a different standard than products built for Orlando or Atlanta. We only install the former.

TAS 201 / 202 / 203 Testing Context

HVHZ-rated entry doors are tested under the TAS protocol family: TAS 201 covers large-missile impact, TAS 202 covers cyclic wind-pressure loading, and TAS 203 covers forced-entry resistance. Together they simulate a hurricane and a burglary attempt. This is the protocol family our Therma-Tru entry door configurations are evaluated under.

Design Pressure for Your Wind Zone

Design pressure, or DP, is the amount of wind force a door assembly can take before structural failure. We match DP to your actual wind zone, up to +/-100, and never spec higher. Ordering a higher DP than your zone requires just inflates cost and weight. The right number for your Delray Beach street is the one we calculate from your address and exposure category.

Energy Performance

If your entry door faces east or west in Delray Beach, you’ll feel the difference Low-E insulated glass makes. The Low-E coating blocks solar heat gain without darkening the glass, and the insulated airspace helps keep the door surface cooler in August. It’s the right call for doors that catch direct sun. Solid panel doors are naturally the most efficient, but honestly, most of our Delray Beach customers want the light.

Color & Glass Options

Delray Beach homes lean coastal and Mediterranean: white or beige colonials in Lake Ida, soft gray and taupe moderns in newer developments off Atlantic Avenue, the occasional black-trimmed contemporary near the golf clubs. The finish options on our entry doors map to that palette.

White is the most common front-door finish we install in Delray Beach, especially on homes with white trim or a light stucco exterior. It reflects heat well and stays cooler under direct sun. Black has trended hard in recent years, particularly on modern builds and townhome projects. It makes a strong curb-appeal statement and hides grime from landscapers and salt air. Bronze works beautifully on Mediterranean-style homes with terra cotta roofs or warm limestone accents. And the paintable woodgrain finish is the sleeper option: it gives you the texture and depth of wood grain with the freedom to color-match any HOA palette in Delray Beach, which is a real issue in communities like Tropic Isles or Pomelo Park.

On the glass side, decorative impact glass inserts are the choice when the door is a design element, not just an entry. They let you bring light into a foyer while preserving privacy and the impact rating. Low-E insulated inserts are better when the door faces direct sun and you want the energy performance. No glass, solid panel, is the most secure and the quietest, and it’s what we recommend for garage-to-home doors in Delray Beach.

Installation by TruePane Windows & Doors in Delray Beach

An entry door with a Miami-Dade NOA is only as good as its installation. We’ve torn out doors in Delray Beach that carried the right paperwork but were set in rotten jambs with shims from a hardware-store pack and a perimeter of spray foam from a can. The door looked fine for a year. Then the first wind-driven rain found the gap.

Our process starts before the door arrives. We inspect the existing jamb and rough opening for rot, termite damage, and out-of-square framing. In Delray Beach, especially in homes within a mile of the coast, we find moisture intrusion that’s been happening quietly for years. We tell you about it before we set anything, because a new impact door in a compromised opening is wasted money.

On install day, we set the unit level, plumb, and square, with the reveal consistent around the slab. We use AAMA 812 low-expansion foam around the perimeter, then seal and flash the exterior per AAMA 2400/2410 practice. That sequence is critical in an HVHZ zone like Delray Beach: the foam provides insulation and air sealing without bowing the jamb, and the exterior flashing is what keeps wind-driven water from riding the jamb into your wall cavity.

We finish with a water test, a cleanup pass, and a walk-through of the operation: hinges, threshold, weatherstripping, lockset alignment. If your door carries a Florida Product Approval number, we make sure the paperwork is in your hand for the permit file. Delray Beach’s building department reviews impact product submittals closely, and a missing NOA page can hold up a final inspection.

Improper installation compromises any NOA-rated system. Full stop. This is why we install what we sell and why we don’t sell doors to be installed by a third party in Delray Beach. The product, the documentation, and the craft have to line up with the same crew.

Frequently Asked Questions - Entry Doors

Get a Quote - Entry Doors in Delray Beach

If you’re researching entry doors for a Delray Beach home, the next step is a free on-site measurement. We’ll assess your opening, confirm the wind zone and design pressure, go over glass and finish options, and put a written quote in your hand. No pressure, no change orders later. Call (561) 940-2917 to schedule yours. We’re TruePane Windows & Doors, and we install entry doors all over Delray Beach. Yours should be next.

Written by the team at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Delray Beach, FL for over 25 years.