How much does a new garage door cost in Franklin?
Fitted, a steel single is an estimated $895 to $1,750 and an insulated double an estimated $1,650 to $3,200. Carriage house runs an estimated $1,550 to $3,600, full-view aluminum and glass an estimated $2,850 to $6,400, and real timber an estimated $3,200 to $7,800. Insulation, window sections, spring and track upgrades, and squaring up an opening that has moved all shift the figure inside those bands. Always a guide, never a quote, and confirmed once the opening has been measured.
What each band actually buys
Entry level is a single-skin steel door in a standard opening, new track, springs matched to the finished weight, in and working before lunch. Money above that buys insulation, a heavier gauge skin, and two or three layer construction that keeps its shape and runs quieter. Carriage-house styling sits mid-range, because on most doors the look is pressed into steel rather than built from timber. Glass sections, custom widths and real wood take the top of the range and take longer to fit, particularly on an older house where the opening is out of square and the track has to be shimmed to original framing.
Inside the city, the ordinance has a view on the width
The Franklin Zoning Ordinance regulates the door itself as well as the building around it. A one-car door is capped at 9 feet wide, a two-car door is held to between 16 and 18 feet, and the garage has to keep a minimum interior dimension of 10 feet by 20 feet for each parking space it claims. That matters if the plan involves widening a narrow original opening in the historic core, and it decides whether a two-car opening can grow at all. Measure first, and put the question to City of Franklin Building and Neighborhood Services before anything is ordered.
Franklin's width rules play out differently depending on the lot. A new two-car door near Governors Club, reached off Wilson Pike toward Concord Road, usually clears the opening without a fight, since those garages were framed wide from the start. Older single bays out toward Temple Hills, on the ridges off Temple Road and TN-96 Murfreesboro Road, are the ones where a widened opening runs into the ordinance, so the licensed pros we connect you with check the permit question before quoting a price.
Who does the work, and the costs that arrive late
Two things move a door job after the quote. The first is an opening that is no longer square, which is common on older houses, where a jamb gets rebuilt before any track goes on. The second is the opener, which has often spent years fighting a tired door and will not outlast the new one, so have both priced on the same visit rather than discovered on the second. On who does it: Tennessee's Home Improvement license, the one covering residential work from $3,000 to $24,999, applies in only nine adopting counties and Williamson is not among them, while the contractor's license proper starts at $25,000. A door install in Franklin therefore sits in a gap where there is no state trade license to check, so ask for current general liability insurance and a written parts-and-labor warranty with a duration on it. Cross into Davidson County for a Nashville or Bellevue address and the Home Improvement license does apply.
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