Where to buy
Home Depot garage doors — what you actually pay
A 16x7 sectional steel door fitted runs about $2,130 – $4,350 wherever you buy it, and $2,630 – $5,350 insulated. The difference between buying it at Home Depot and buying it from a local company is not really the money.
What Home Depot is good at
The widest range you can stand in front of, financing on the spot, and a price you can see before anybody comes to the house.
What people find out afterwards
The fitting is subcontracted to a local company you do not choose, the measure and the install are separate visits, and lead times run to weeks in season. The quoted price is usually the door only.
The bit that is the same either way
Fitting does not get cheaper
| Line | Typical | |
|---|---|---|
| Fitting, springs and tracks | $980 | A crew and most of a day, wherever the door came from. |
| Old door out and away | $410 | Often quoted separately by a big box. Ask. |
The number to compare is the INSTALLED price with the old door taken away, not the price on the tag. A door that is $200 cheaper and $300 to haul the old one is not cheaper.
Guide ranges, checked September 2026. Prices move — get it in writing.
What the price does not tell you
Fitting a door takes 2 to 4 hours — for somebody who already knows how
A crew that fits doors every day takes two to four hours on a straightforward replacement, and that is with the tools in the van and nothing unexpected in the wall. It is not two hours because it is easy. It is two hours because they have done it a thousand times.
| The step | Why it is not simple |
|---|---|
| Getting the old one out | The old door is still under spring tension until it is not. Releasing it wrongly is where people get hurt before the new door is even out of the box. |
| The tracks have to be plumb and parallel | Out by a quarter of an inch over seven feet and the door binds, the rollers wear through, and the opener burns out a gear trying to force it. The symptom shows up months later. |
| Winding the springs | Set the tension wrong and the door either will not stay up or slams down. This is the step that needs a torsion bar, both hands and experience. |
| Balancing and setting the safety limits | A correctly balanced door stays put wherever you stop it, by hand. The opener's force and travel limits are then set to that. Skipping it is how a door closes on something it should have reversed off. |
Read this before you touch anything
Never change your own springs
A torsion spring on a double garage door holds enough stored energy to break an arm, take out teeth, or worse. It is wound under tension with two steel bars, and if one slips it goes at the speed of the thing it was holding up. People are seriously injured doing this every year, and some are killed. There is no YouTube video that makes this safe, and the part costs less than the emergency room.
The tell that a spring has gone: the door suddenly feels enormously heavy, the opener strains and stops, or there is a loud bang from the garage and then nothing works. If you can see a gap in the coil above the door, that is a broken spring. Leave the door where it is and ring somebody.
Worth doing yourself
Not everything needs a van outside
- Lubricating the rollers, hinges and springs — twice a year, with garage door lubricant, not WD-40
- Cleaning and realigning the safety sensors when the door will not close
- Tightening loose hinge and track bolts, gently
- Replacing the bottom weather seal
- Changing the opener's remote battery, and reprogramming a keypad
Exact price
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