A patio door installation in Beverly Hills comes down to one early choice: keep the hole in the wall you have, or cut it wider and carry the house on a new beam. Both end with glass between the room and the yard. The first stays around the frame. The second changes the wall, and with it the light across the whole back of the room.
To price your door we need the width of the opening now, the width you would like and the address. Send those three and get your patio door quote in writing.
A new door at the back of a Beverly Hills room
Behind many Westside houses the walk from the sofa to the garden is short, so the patio door is what you look through all day. A narrow single door or an aging slider can leave a sunny room feeling closed off from its own yard. New glass in that spot changes how the room is used well before anyone steps outside.
We fit several kinds of patio door here, and we have written about each on its own. Our sliding door cost article covers panels and tracks. The French door article covers swing direction. The folding glass wall article covers the widest spans. This page is for the owner who knows a new door is coming and now has to decide how much of the wall goes with it.
An old door that only sticks or drags is still worth a call. We can look at it and price a repair beside a new unit, so you can weigh the two for that opening.
Five things behind a patio door price
Your quote separates the door from the wall around it. That split is what lets you change one and see the effect on the other.
Door type and size. A two-panel slider, a hinged pair and a folding set are different products at different costs. Height counts along with width, because a taller panel means heavier glass and a stiffer frame. Frame material and any glass coating chosen for the way that wall faces come next.
Same or wider opening. Keeping the opening holds the work to the frame, the sill and the trim. Going wider means cutting studs, and then shoring, new framing and larger finish repairs all join the job. On most quotes, this choice outweighs anything you pick from a door catalog.
The header. A wall carrying a roof or a floor needs a beam across the wider gap. An engineer sizes the beam and the posts below it, and those posts may need their own footings. A second story above the door asks more of all three. We build this part, covered on our structural work page, before any glass reaches the house.
Stucco patch. A swap in the same opening can disturb a narrow band of stucco around the frame. A wider opening leaves a longer edge to rebuild, with paper and flashing behind it and a finish coat that has to sit next to old color and texture. Your quote states how far the patch runs and whether the wall gets painted afterward.
Floor patch. Pull out an old sill or a section of wall and the floor below rarely lines up. Tile, hardwood or slab may need filling where the framing stood and where the new track sits. Outside, the edge of a patio or deck may have to come down so water leaves the door. Any matching work gets its own line, so a surprise at the threshold is less likely.
Filing sits outside those five. We ask the city what your door requires at this address, and any drawings, engineering or application work then appears as a separate item.
Door installer or general contractor for this wall
A same-size swap is a contained job, and we quote it. Once studs come out, the work runs through an engineer, framers, stucco and flooring in a fixed order, and someone has to hold that order together. That points to a general contractor. Palmcrest is licensed in California and carries the wall, the glass and the patching under one contract.
When two bids sit side by side, check each for these:
- The door named by type, size and glass
- Who rebuilds the stucco, and how far the patch goes
- Who repairs the floor at the sill
- Whether the beam, posts and footings are priced or assumed
- Who deals with the city
Some choices are better made before the quote is written, because they share the same wall. Planning a deck at floor height sets the threshold once. Older windows beside the new door can go in during the same job, which saves opening that wall twice. A cover outside can be drawn along with the door head, so the two line up from the room.
Measuring your opening and writing the door quote
We start by opening and closing what you have, since a dragging track or a soft sill tells us what lies under it. Then we measure the width and height of the opening and check the levels on both sides. If you want it wider, we look at the framing from the attic or the floor above and find where the load comes down.
The quote then arrives in writing with the door, the opening, the header, the stucco, the floor and any filing on their own lines. We can price a slider and a folding set for one wall so you see the gap between them. If the beam still has to be sized, the header line says so and the total is settled once the engineer reports.
Our base is in Beverly Hills, which keeps the trip short for a measure. We also fit doors in West Hollywood, Bel Air, Brentwood and Culver City.
Notes and photos for your door
A short message with these lets us come prepared:
- A photo of the door from inside the room, with the ceiling and floor in frame
- A photo from the yard showing the stucco around it
- The width you would like, even as a rough guess
- Whether a second story sits above that wall
- The flooring on each side of the sill
- Any leak, draft or sticking you have noticed
Call us or send the form once you know which wall you mean. We will book a measure and write up the door both ways if you are still deciding between the same opening and a wider one.