Savannah Window Co provides professional french doors in Savannah, GA for residential and commercial properties across the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. French doors suit this city better than almost anywhere. Savannah houses were built with tall openings, deep porches and rooms designed to be opened to the outside, and a hinged pair of glazed doors is what that architecture was expecting in the first place.
The mechanics are different from a slider in every important way. Two panels hinge from the jambs and meet in the middle at an astragal, the vertical member carrying the seals and the strike for the lock. There is no track to silt up and no rollers to wear, so the maintenance profile is far better. What you get instead is a hinge and a seal to keep adjusted.
Inswing or outswing is the first real decision and it is not a matter of taste here. Outswing doors seal better under wind-driven rain, because the pressure pushes the panel into its weatherstrip rather than away from it. On an exposed elevation that is worth a great deal. Inswing keeps the panels out of the wind on a narrow piazza and is easier to screen.
Buy the locking system rather than the handle. A multipoint mechanism throws bolts at the head and the sill as well as the middle, which pulls a tall panel flat against its seals along the whole height. Single-point latches on a seven-foot door leave the top and bottom free to bow, and that is where both the draft and the water get in.
The threshold is the weak point in the assembly, exactly as it is on a slider. It sits at floor level, it is usually the lowest opening in the wall, and on this coast that means water. We set a pan under it with end dams, use an adjustable sill so the sweep can be tuned as the house moves, and check the drainage path before the door goes in rather than afterward.
Replacing an existing pair of french doors with a new pair in the same opening is not a permitted project, since nothing about the size changes. Converting a window into a doorway is, and that one carries structural work as well, since a new header is needed. On an older house inside a mapped hazard area, ask us for the flood file arithmetic before you commit to that conversion.
Where french doors are genuinely the better buy is upstairs. On a raised cottage or an elevated island house, a pair opening onto a second-story porch sits comfortably above the flood elevation, catches the prevailing breeze from the river, and gives you the full opening rather than half of it. That is the configuration this housing stock was drawn around.
One practical warning. Screening a hinged pair is harder than screening a slider, and the retractable systems that solve it are a real cost and a real maintenance item. If the doors will stand open through the insect season, price the screen at the same time as the doors rather than discovering the number later.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, laminated impact glazing over a 0.090-inch interlayer, warm-edge spacers in argon-filled insulating glass units — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Savannah and nearby communities including Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Thunderbolt.
What We Handle
Everything our french doors in Savannah covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of french doors work in Savannah, GA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- hinged patio door replacement
- inswing vs outswing french door
- french door astragal
- multipoint lock french door
- french door threshold adjustment
- double door replacement savannah
- french doors to porch
- french door glass panel replacement
- active and inactive door panel
- french door weatherstripping
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- french door screen options
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Savannah 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 pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, 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 Savannah 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 the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins 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 Savannah
Savannah Window Co covers Savannah and the surrounding communities of the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. 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 Pooler, GA — Chatham County, population 25,711
- French Doors in Garden City, GA — Chatham County, population 10,289
- French Doors in Port Wentworth, GA — Chatham County, population 10,878
- French Doors in Thunderbolt, GA — Chatham County, population 2,556
- French Doors in Tybee Island, GA — Chatham County, population 3,114
- French Doors in Wilmington Island, GA — Chatham County, population 15,129
Start on the Savannah Window Co homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Savannah Chooses Savannah Window Co
- ✓We look up your flood zone, base flood elevation and pre-map status before a tape measure comes out, and put the answer in the quote
- ✓Openings that need a permit are priced in a separate column, with the valuation we would declare shown next to them
- ✓Every unit is ordered to the measured opening rather than trimmed or packed out to suit a stock size on a shelf
- ✓Sill pans with end dams on every installation, including the ones where nobody would ever see whether we fitted one
The standards behind french doors
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The french doors work we do in Savannah 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 Savannah 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 Savannah, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.