Garage door costs in Seattle
Here’s the ballpark for common garage door jobs around Seattle, WA. Want one for your own project? A photo is all it takes.
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What it usually costs
- Fix a door that won't open or close right$131 – $451 per door
- Replace it with a steel door$1,259 – $2,518 per door
- Replace it with a wood door$1,667 – $7,222 per door
- Replace it with an aluminum and glass door$2,778 – $7,222 per door
A ballpark, not a quote. Some of these are national averages adjusted for Seattle prices, so your job could land outside them.
Garage door in Seattle
The beam over a garage door gets its own number in Seattle's permit rules. Most new and remodeled garages need only a subject-to-field-inspection permit, according to the city's Department of Construction and Inspections, or SDCI. That's its route for simple projects that don't need extensive plan review.
To stay on that route, a garage's beams are held to a 14-foot span. Go past that and the job needs plan review, which means more detailed plans and an appointment to hand them in. The same goes for an opening in a bearing wall that holds up more than one story plus the roof. So cutting a garage door into the ground floor of a house with two stories above it goes to plan review from the start.
The door header is where SDCI gives a little. Its Tip 316, updated April 26, 2024, sets the limit for garage door headers at 16 feet. That applies on a detached accessory building and on a ground-level, one-story addition to the house. If the rest of the project fits, a 16-foot opening for a two-car door can stay on the simpler permit, where any other 16-foot beam would push the job into plan review.
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