uPVC Door Installation in Melbourne

From your initial call to a completed installation, the typical timeline is 4–7 weeks. The free in-home assessment happens within a week of contact. The quote follows within 48 hours. Manufacturing takes 2–5 weeks from quote acceptance, depending on the door type and glass specification, bi-fold and lift-and-slide systems with large glass units take longer than standard sliding or entry doors. Installation day itself ranges from a single day for entry and French doors to two days for wide bi-fold or multi-panel stacker systems. Your installation date is confirmed when you accept the quote, not estimated after the fact.

The majority of our installations happen in occupied Melbourne homes, around families, home offices, and normal daily life. We work door by door, each opening is completed to a fully weathertight, lockable, and operational state before the next is begun. At no point is more than one opening simultaneously unsecured. The practical disruption is limited to the immediate work area around each door during its installation window. Most homeowners tell us the installation was considerably less disruptive than they anticipated. The one consideration worth noting: in summer, rooms adjacent to an open frame during installation may experience temperature change for the hours of that specific door's installation.

For new openings, where a wall is being modified to create the bi-fold span, a structural engineer's assessment of the lintel or beam requirement is usually needed, and we work alongside your engineer or can refer you to one we trust. For replacement installations, where a bi-fold is replacing an existing door system in an existing opening, structural assessment is typically not required unless the opening is being widened. We identify during the free in-home assessment whether structural work is part of the scope and advise accordingly. We never begin an installation that requires structural work without that work being confirmed and completed first.

Our free in-home assessment is specifically designed to find these problems before installation day rather than during it. We examine every reveal carefully, assess the lintel or structural situation, check subsill conditions, and document everything that will affect the installation. The vast majority of reveal conditions, structural considerations, and remediation requirements are identified and priced before we start. In the rare case that something unexpected is found during installation, concealed behind cladding, beneath a subsill, or inside a wall cavity, we stop, document it physically, show you directly, and agree on a course of action before continuing. We do not continue and present a variation invoice afterward.

Whether a window opening can accommodate a door without modification depends on the window's dimensions relative to the door system being considered. A standard sliding or French door requires a minimum opening width of approximately 1.6–1.8 metres. An entry door needs at least 900mm of opening width. A window that is narrower than the required door dimension would need the opening widened, which involves structural work. During the free in-home assessment, we measure your existing opening, advise on whether widening is required, and — if it is, provide a complete scope that includes the structural work, either directly or by referring you to the appropriate trade.

No. Our installation team arrives with waste removal capability as part of the standard service. The old door frame, panels, glass, hardware, and packaging waste are all removed from site by our team. You don't need to arrange skip bins, organise a council hard waste collection, or store old frames in the yard. The one exception is hazardous materials, if an existing frame contains lead paint or other hazardous substances, appropriate handling requires specific arrangements that we identify during the assessment and advise on before installation day.

Yes, and apartment and high-rise installations are a regular part of our Melbourne work. We coordinate directly with building management: confirming noise windows (the hours during which installation work is permitted), elevator access arrangements, trolley routes through common areas, protection requirements for common area finishes, and completion clean-up standards. For elevated installations requiring access to external surfaces, window washers' brackets, elevated work platforms, or scaffolding, we identify and arrange the appropriate access method during the assessment. Our OHS practices are appropriate for elevated commercial and residential environments.

A comprehensive written workmanship guarantee is provided on the day of installation completion, before our team leaves. The guarantee covers the product, the uPVC door frame, glass units, and hardware, and the installation, including sealing, hardware adjustment, frame setting, and operational performance. Both sides of the guarantee are held by Legendary Windows. If something needs attention after installation, a seal, a hardware adjustment, a panel alignment issue that develops during the settling period, you call one number, and we come back and address it. The guarantee is not conditional on scheduling a service call through a remote call centre or proving that the problem is installation-related rather than product-related. It covers the complete outcome.