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Our team has extensive training and years of experience, ensuring every door is custom-built and installed to the highest standards.
We only use premium materials and trusted brands, providing doors that are durable, energy-efficient, and stylish.
Our expert installers make sure your door fits perfectly, minimizing the risk of drafts, warping, or energy loss.
From traditional to modern, choose from colors, glass inserts, sidelights, and hardware.
If you're searching for door installation or replacement in Minnesota, the condition of your current door matters more than you might think. Minnesota's freeze-thaw cycles warp frames, compromise weatherstripping, and turn a small draft into a serious energy loss, and once a door frame starts failing, no amount of weatherstripping fixes it. TWS Remodeling has been installing doors for Minnesota homeowners for 25 years, and we back every project with a same-day quote after a free in-home inspection. Call (612) 445-4352 to get yours scheduled.
We install entry doors and patio doors, and every installation starts with a proper assessment of your existing frame, threshold, and rough opening. A door that's hung wrong, even by a fraction, won't seal correctly against a Minnesota winter. What drives cost on a door project is usually scope: a straightforward slab swap on a square, undamaged frame is one job; replacing a frame with rot, adding sidelights, or upgrading to a multi-point locking system is a different project entirely. Door installations at TWS range widely based on door type, configuration, and frame condition, Every job is different, contact TWS Remodeling for an accurate estimate. We also offer $0 down, $0 monthly payments, and 0% interest for 12 months on approved financing.
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Materials We Trust
Every TWS Remodeling door is engineered for premium construction and long-lasting performance. The slab is made with scratch-resistant paint or stain finishes to withstand daily wear.
Choose from dozens of wood tones, solid colors, and finishes, or add glass inserts, geometric windows, or sidelights to brighten your entryway.
FAQ
If your frame is square, structurally sound, and free of rot or water damage, a slab replacement is a legitimate option and costs less. But in Minnesota, frames take on moisture over years of freeze-thaw cycling. We check the frame during every in-home consultation, if there's soft wood at the corners, the threshold has shifted, or the rough opening is out of square, replacing just the slab will leave you with the same performance problems within a season or two. A full-frame replacement is the right call more often than people expect.
Steel doors are dent-resistant and typically cost less, but they conduct cold and can develop surface rust at the bottom edge if the finish is compromised. Fiberglass doesn't conduct cold the same way, it has a better thermal break, and it won't rust or warp through repeated freeze-thaw cycles. For north- or west-facing entries that get the full force of Minnesota winters, fiberglass is usually the better long-term choice. We carry both and can show you the performance specs side by side.
Most single-door installations are completed in one day. We don't leave a partially installed door overnight, your home stays secured throughout the process. Patio door installations or projects that involve frame rebuilding can run longer depending on the scope, but we confirm the timeline before we start so you know exactly what to expect. Same-day completion is the standard, not the exception.
The most common cause is the track warping or filling with debris, but in Minnesota homes, it's frequently the frame itself moving as the house settles through seasonal temperature swings. When the frame shifts out of square, the door panel binds in the track. Cleaning the track and lubricating the rollers is a good first step, if the door still drags or won't latch cleanly after that, the frame alignment needs to be assessed. Ignoring it stresses the rollers and eventually damages the frame beyond what a simple adjustment can fix.
Yes, but it requires widening the rough opening, which is framing work that goes beyond a standard door swap. We handle the full scope, rough opening modification, new frame, door unit with sidelights, exterior trim, and interior casing. Sidelights pull natural light into an entry and change the visual scale of the front elevation significantly. The cost is higher than a direct replacement because of the structural work involved, but the result is a completely different entry. Contact TWS Remodeling for an accurate estimate on your specific opening.
The scope is what drives cost, not a per-door sticker. A straightforward slab swap on a square, sound frame is the low end. Costs climb with frame replacement, sidelights, wider openings, multi-point locks, and material choice (fiberglass runs higher than steel). Interior doors cost less than exterior units because there's no weatherproofing, flashing, or threshold work involved. We give you a written quote the same day as the free in-home visit, so you see the number scoped to your actual openings before anything is ordered. Every job is different, contact TWS Remodeling for an accurate estimate.
Exterior doors carry your air-seal, your primary lock, and your weather barrier, so the install includes head flashing, a sill pan under the threshold, and weatherstripping tuned to seal against Minnesota's freeze-thaw swings. Interior doors have none of that. There, the whole job is fit and finish: a jamb shimmed plumb so the door swings clean and latches without rubbing. That's why exterior installs typically take a day and interior swaps often take a few hours. The failure modes are different too, exterior doors fail at the weather seal, interior doors fail at an out-of-square opening.
Yes. We install non-standard and custom-sized doors, prehung or slab, for openings that aren't a stock dimension, taller-than-standard doors, and older Twin Cities homes where the rough opening has shifted over decades of settling. Custom units carry a longer lead time because the door is built to your opening rather than pulled from stock, and we confirm exact measurements during the free in-home visit before anything is ordered. If a wider opening is involved, that adds framing work, which we scope and quote up front so there are no surprises.
Our Approach
Schedule a consultation appointment online or over the phone. You will get a call the day before to confirm the appointment time.
A representative from TWS will meet you at your home, walk you through options, take measurements, and do a free in-home inspection. You'll receive a quote that same day.
If you decide to move forward with your project, you'd make a small deposit, and we'd then begin scheduling your project for installation.
A team member will be in touch, walking you through every step from this point until the project is complete.
Past Projects
Take a look at our past door projects to see how TWS Remodeling has transformed homes across Minneapolis–St. Paul.
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