The front door is the one upgrade every visitor touches. ProVia fiberglass and steel entry doors, built to your opening with a three-point locking system, installed by our own employees and backed by a 15-year labor warranty.
The Choices
Picking the door type settles how it opens and not much else. Every door we order is built to the exact size of your opening, and these six choices are what we actually sit down and go through, at your kitchen table or in the 4,000 sq. ft. Southgate showroom where you can swing the real thing.
Fiberglass with dovetailed hardwood stiles and rails for the stained-wood look without the upkeep, 20-gauge steel with a composite lock block for security and value. The main doors page compares both with real wood, which we do not carry, so you can see why.
Clear, privacy, or decorative glass, with insulated Low-E glazing wherever there is glass. Narrow sidelites beside the door and a transom above it turn a dark hallway light without giving up the wall.
Stained woodgrains in mahogany, cherry, oak, knotty alder and fir, or a smooth slab in the color you actually want. ProVia's home visualizer shows the door on a photo of your own house before anything is ordered.
Handlesets and deadbolts are the visible half. The working half is a three-point locking system that anchors the slab at the top, center and bottom, with a security plate behind the strike.
Widths and heights come in eighth-inch increments, so the door fills the opening it was measured for. Nothing is trimmed to fit on installation day, and the frame goes in as one piece with the slab.
An aluminum storm door in front takes the rain, road salt and afternoon sun so the entry door does not have to, and swaps its glass for a screen when spring shows up.
The Right Fit
Plenty of entry problems get blamed on the weather or the foundation when the door itself is the culprit. If these sound familiar, the estimate will tell you honestly which it is.
A hollow or unsealed slab leaks heat all winter. A foam-filled core and fresh weatherstripping usually fix what a space heater has been hiding.
If the deadbolt only throws when you lift or shove the door, the slab or frame has moved, and the lock is the symptom rather than the problem.
Any light you can see around a closed door is air moving both ways, every hour of every day.
A door that needs repainting every couple of seasons has lost its coating war. Fiberglass finishes and factory-painted steel end that cycle.
Sometimes nothing is broken. The house got new siding or windows and the door is twenty years behind it. That counts too.
We do not publish a price per door, because an honest one does not exist. A storm door and a double entry with sidelites are not close to the same job. Cost tracks the size of the opening, the material, the glass and hardware you choose, and what the crew finds once the old frame comes out. What we promise is the full number in writing at the estimate, before anything is ordered, with no pressure to sign that day.
Flexible financing is available. You can also open and close the real thing at our 4,000 sq. ft. showroom in Southgate before you commit to anything.
Our Work
These are our photos from our jobs across Downriver and Southeast Michigan. Click any photo for a closer look.
In Detail
First impressions can go one of two ways: wonderfully or horribly. As a homeowner, many of these interactions will occur at the front door, where the setting can make or break the initial greeting. The easiest rule to remember? A great first impression starts with a great entry door. And for homeowners in Southgate, MI, some of the best entry doors can be found at Adkins & Sons. Since 1979, our family-owned and -operated window and door company has helped locals transform the appearance and performance of their residences with standout upgrades that boast the best in durability, beauty, and energy efficiency. Serving residents throughout the Ann Arbor and Downriver communities, we do well to ensure homeowners benefit from a thoughtful, personalized service that always puts customer satisfaction first.
As you come to the realization that your home could greatly benefit from a new entry door, you’ll soon find yourself neck-deep in search engine results as you ask: What types of entry doors best fit my needs? The trick to finding the perfect entry door comes down to the following:
At Adkins & Sons, our entry doors check all of the boxes. Sourced from industry-leading manufacturer ProVia®, these front doors are:
What’s more, you’ll be able to visualize what your new door will look like on your home thanks to ProVia’s Exterior Home Design Visualizer.
Reach out to Adkins & Sons today to learn more about our entry doors for your home in Southgate, MI.
Steel is the straightforward answer: a 20-gauge skin over an insulating core, a composite lock block where the deadbolt bites, and the lowest price of the three materials. Fiberglass is the answer when the door should look like stained wood: ProVia's fiberglass slabs are built on dovetailed hardwood stiles and rails and finished in real woodgrains, and unlike wood they never ask to be refinished. A steel door in full sun can get hot enough to discourage bare hands, and a west-facing entry is usually where the fiberglass conversation starts.
A new slab hung in a tired, out-of-square frame seals like what it is: a good door in a bad hole. That is why an entry replacement here is the whole unit, frame and slab engineered together, set plumb into the measured opening. It is also why the weatherstripping meets the slab evenly on all four sides on day one and keeps meeting it for years.
More Door Types
A door is chosen twice: once for where it goes and once for what it is made of. These are the other openings we build for, backed by the same 15-year labor warranty.
Two leaves that meet in the middle and open into a much wider opening than a single door can. Worth it when the entry is grand enough to carry it, or when furniture has to get through. Both leaves are hinged, so nothing is lost to a fixed panel.
One panel glides sideways past a fixed one. Nothing swings into the room or out onto the deck, which makes it the practical answer for a patio where a chair or a grill sits close to the wall. Big glass, small footprint.
A glass door on hinges next to a fixed glass panel. It swings clear like a real door, so the whole opening is usable, and it seals against the frame rather than riding in a track. Available with blinds sealed between the panes.
A painted aluminum door that hangs in front of the entry door and takes the weather so that door does not have to. Full-view models swap the glass for a screen when spring comes, so you can leave the front door open and still keep the bugs outside.
The Advantages
An entry door has two jobs that fight each other: swing freely a dozen times a day, and seal like a wall the rest of it. The way to win both is a slab built to the opening, locked to the frame at more than one point.
Three-Point Locking
The slab anchors to the frame at the top, center and bottom, with a security plate behind the strike.
Fiberglass or Steel
ProVia fiberglass with dovetailed hardwood stiles and rails, or Legacy steel with a 20-gauge skin.
Built to Your Opening
Sized in eighth-inch increments to your measured opening, never trimmed to fit on the day.
See It On Your House
ProVia's visualizer puts the door, finish and glass on a photo of your own home before you order.
What Sets Us Apart
When the company that sold you the job is not the company that installed it, a warranty call two years later turns into a search for whoever did the work. We do not work that way. Our own employees do the installation, never subcontractors, and the 15-year labor warranty comes from us, so there is one company to call.
1979
Family-owned and operating since
15
Year labor warranty on our workmanship
3
Generations of the Adkins family
We are a Pella Platinum Elite Certified Contractor, which means our crews are factory-trained and certified directly by Pella. They are our own employees, on our payroll, not a subcontracted crew hired for the week.
View Our CertificationFactory-Trained Crews Certified Directly by Pella
Our Own Employees, Never Subcontractors
Our Process
A door is a one-day job done right and a lifetime of annoyance done wrong. Four steps, one point of contact, and a house that is closed up before we leave.
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We measure the rough opening, check the sill and the framing around it, and give you straight numbers in writing. You can also come open and close the options yourself at our 4,000 sq. ft. Southgate showroom.
02
Widths and heights are made to your measurements rather than picked off a rack, so the door fills the hole it was built for. You choose the slab, the glass, the finish and the hardware before anything is ordered.
03
Our own factory-trained crew pulls the old unit, checks what is behind it, sets the new frame plumb and square, seals it, and finishes the trim. Floor protection goes down before the old door comes off.
04
We open, close, lock and unlock the door with you, adjust the threshold and the strike, haul the old unit away, and register your 15-year labor warranty before we go.
Warranty
15
Years Warranty
Every installation is backed by our industry-leading 15-year labor warranty, on top of the manufacturer's coverage on the door itself. If the workmanship ever needs attention, one call and we make it right, at no cost to you.
180 Month
2
Years Warranty
Most door companies stand behind their installation for only a year or two. Once that coverage runs out, drafts, leaks, and seal failures become the homeowner's problem to fix.
24 Month
Entry Questions
Steel is the value and security answer: a heavy 20-gauge skin over a foam core with a composite lock block behind the deadbolt. Fiberglass gives you the stained-wood look with none of the refinishing, and it shrugs off full afternoon sun. We show you both at the estimate rather than steering you.
Instead of one deadbolt in the middle, the door anchors to the frame at the top, center and bottom in one motion. It spreads any force across the whole frame and pulls the slab evenly against its weatherstripping, so it is a comfort upgrade as much as a security one.
Yes. ProVia's Exterior Home Design Visualizer puts your chosen door, finish, glass and sidelites on a photo of your own home. You can also stand in front of the real options at our 4,000 sq. ft. Southgate showroom.
Adkins & Sons employees, factory-trained installers on our own payroll, never subcontractors. The unit is built to your measured opening, set plumb and square, sealed, and covered by our 15-year labor warranty on top of the manufacturer's coverage on the door itself.
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One family company out of Southgate, working across Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties since 1979. Find your city below for local details.
