Price of a front
door.

We went back over all the "front door" lines in our 2024-2026 quotes: 64 priced lines, spread across 25 quotes for houses and small apartment buildings. So that a quote with several variants does not weigh more than another, each quote counts only once per category. The ranges cover most of the prices observed; isolated cases are flagged separately. The same quote can appear on two lines of the table, for example a steel door with a glazed side panel.

The dimension that comes up most in our quotes is a single leaf about 90 cm wide by 2.10 to 2.25 m high. In a home more than two years old where the door does not reach the performance threshold described below, VAT rises to 10%: the single-leaf door then comes to €1,870 to €3,850 incl. VAT.

Two cases fall outside these ranges. A replacement fitted as a renovation, with a small fixed glazed frame, came in under €1,500 excl. VAT. Conversely, a high-end model with a decorative insert, completed by a fixed side frame, exceeded €5,000 excl. VAT. Our quotes do not allow us to give a price for a PVC or solid timber door: none of our lines specifies these materials, and a good number cite no material at all.

Steel is the material most often named in our quotes: a solid or lightly glazed door, whose panel contains an insulating core, robust and not very sensitive to knocks. This is also where our prices cluster: most of the steel doors we have priced fall between €2,500 and €2,800 excl. VAT.

Aluminium comes a notch above, between €2,500 and €3,600 excl. VAT in our quotes: slim profiles, large glazed sections, textured finishes. As metal conducts heat, performance depends on the thermal break in the profiles and the thickness of the panel. It is read on the manufacturer's technical data sheet, not on the colour chart.

PVC and timber appear in none of our front door lines: we therefore give them no price. For timber, keep in mind the upkeep of the finishes, more frequent on a facade exposed to high-altitude sun and frost.

Three ways of fitting come up in our quotes. Renovation fitting fixes the new frame onto the old frame, left in place: the job is short and clean, but the opening loses a few centimetres and the old frame must be sound. Tunnel fitting, after complete removal of the old door, sets the new frame within the thickness of the wall: the opening is kept and the weatherproofing starts afresh, at the cost of reworking the reveals.

When the facade receives external insulation, the door is fitted with a frame extension, a widening of the frame that brings it back into the plane of the insulation. Our quotes include extensions of 105 and 140 mm, depending on the planned insulation thickness. If facade insulation is being considered in the coming years, it is better to plan for it as soon as the door is changed.

The choice is not made from a catalogue: it depends on the condition of the existing frame, the threshold, the available opening height and the work planned on the facade. This is what our salaried joiners check when taking measurements, before pricing. Our guide changing your joinery covers windows, doors and shutters in a single budget.

The figure to ask for is the thermal transmittance coefficient of the door, written Ud and expressed in W/m².K: the lower it is, the less heat the door lets escape. It also determines the VAT: for the 5.5% rate, a front door opening onto the outside must show a coefficient of less than or equal to 1.7 W/m².K, assessed according to standard NF EN 14351-1 (article 30-0 D bis of Annex IV to the French general tax code).

On the security side, look at the lock (multipoint or not), the cylinder and the anti-lifting devices. Locks and cylinders certified A2P by the CNPP are classified by level of resistance to forced entry. These options are not detailed line by line in our quotes: we give them no price here and price them case by case.

In the mountains, two details weigh more than elsewhere. First, the threshold, which must stay watertight when snow builds up in front of the entrance. Second, the exposure: a dark-coloured door, facing due south, takes large temperature swings between day and night, which is worth discussing when choosing the colour.

VAT is 5.5% when the door reaches the performance threshold above and the home was completed more than two years ago; otherwise, the rate is 10% in a home more than two years old. Since 1 March 2025, the certificate has been replaced by a statement entered on the quote or invoice. The detail of the three rates is in our guide to VAT on renovation work.

As for financial help, changing a front door on its own is not part of the MaPrimeRénov' per-measure lump sums: since 1 September 2026, this scheme funds only heat pumps, connection to a heat network and a few ancillary items (order of 25 August 2026). Our overview of MaPrimeRénov' in 2026 details the whole-house renovation scheme, which remains open to homes rated E, F or G.

Finally, replacing a door with a model of a different appearance (colour, material, design) changes the facade: this is in principle a prior declaration of works (déclaration préalable) at the town hall, with the opinion of the ABF heritage architect (architecte des Bâtiments de France) in a protected area. A door identical to the old one does not require one.