Raleigh Window Pros provides professional french doors in Raleigh, NC for residential and commercial properties across Wake County. A French door trades a slider's mechanical simplicity for a compression seal and a wider clear opening. Both leaves swing, both latch into the frame, and when the frame is set correctly the pair seals better than any slider sold.
When the frame is set wrong the same door performs worse than any slider. A hinged pair out of plumb by a quarter of an inch across seven feet of height shows daylight at the top corner on a winter afternoon, and no amount of moving the strike plate around will ever close that gap for you. Hinged doors are unforgiving in a way sliders simply are not.
So the frame matters considerably more than the door does, and that is where our labour goes. We shim at every hinge location and every strike, read the reveal at four points around the pair, and set the astragal on an inswing unit and confirm it is straight before any lock hardware comes out of its box.
Inswing or outswing is a real decision in Wake County rather than a preference. An outswing pair sheds driven rain far better and gives back the floor space a swing normally eats, but it puts the hinges outdoors, so it wants non-removable hinge pins and it will argue with the ceiling height and the post spacing of a covered porch. We check both with a tape before recommending either direction.
The multi-point lock earns its cost here and we specify it as standard. Three engagement points spread up the height of the leaf draw it evenly into the weatherstrip along its whole length, which is the only reliable way to seal a seven-foot panel against a Piedmont storm arriving sideways off an open field.
Full-frame French door work is the fourth code case, so Table N1102.1.2 applies to the glazed assembly. Grille pattern is the detail to watch closely. True divided lites, with an individual sealed unit in every single opening, will usually miss the required U-factor because of all that extra edge. Simulated divided lites over one large unit will not.
If you want the divided look, take simulated divided lites with an internal spacer bar aligned to the exterior and interior bars. From five feet away on a path nobody can tell the difference, and the door meets its number without an awkward conversation at inspection or an expensive change order after the pair has already been delivered to the site.
We do not recommend French doors on a southwest wall with no overhang above them. The top rail takes sun and rain together on the same surface, the finish fails there first and always, and once the finish has gone the joint underneath it follows within a couple of seasons. Add an overhang first, or put a slider in that opening and spend the difference elsewhere.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — insert assemblies set into a retained existing frame, sash packs with new jamb liners and balance shoes, constant-force coil balances in a double-hung frame, soft-coat low-E on the second surface for solar rejection, stainless warm-edge spacer in a dual-seal sealed unit, poured and debridged polyurethane thermal breaks in aluminium — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Raleigh and nearby communities including Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, Holly Springs.
What We Handle
Everything our french doors in Raleigh covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of french doors work in Raleigh, NC. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Raleigh services.
Materials, equipment and how we do french doors
The difference between french doors that lasts and french doors that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with insert assemblies set into a retained existing frame, sash packs with new jamb liners and balance shoes, constant-force coil balances in a double-hung frame, soft-coat low-E on the second surface for solar rejection, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Raleigh job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in Wake County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do french doors outside Raleigh
Raleigh Window Pros covers Raleigh and the surrounding communities of Wake County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- French Doors in Cary, NC — Wake County, population 174,721 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Apex, NC — Wake County, population 58,780 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Wake Forest, NC — Wake County, population 47,601 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Holly Springs, NC — Wake County, population 41,239 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Fuquay-Varina, NC — Wake County, population 34,152 at the 2020 census
- French Doors in Garner, NC — Wake County, population 31,159 at the 2020 census
Start on the Raleigh Window Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Raleigh Chooses Raleigh Window Pros
- ✓We name which of the four cases in North Carolina's window-replacement interpretation your opening falls into, and the quote says so in plain words
- ✓Climate Zone 4A numbers go on the proposal per opening, taken from the certified NFRC label rather than a brochure's centre-of-glass figure
- ✓We tell you where to spend the Section N1102.3.3 exemption, because twenty-four square feet of it exists once per dwelling and most people waste it
- ✓No residential aluminium in Wake County, and no impact-rated glazing sold as hurricane protection a hundred and twenty miles from the coast
The standards behind french doors
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The french doors work we do in Raleigh follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every french doors project in Raleigh gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free french doors free estimate in Raleigh, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.