What it costs to replace an interior door around Beaverton and Cedar Mill

Hanging one interior door around Portland usually runs $200 to $450 for the labour, and $300 is the middle of that (local market data, November 2026) . The door itself is bought on top. The bill moves with four things: slab or prehung, the condition of the old jamb, paint, and how many doors go in together. Here's how we replace and hang interior doors.

I'm Slava. This page skips the how-to and sticks to the money: what an interior door bill is built from, a few worked examples, and how to read two quotes.

How much does it cost to replace an interior door near Portland?

These numbers describe the going rate around here. They aren't our quote. The price sheet behind them takes the usual labour hours and multiplies by Portland rates, roughly $95 to $120 an hour, and it counts about three hours to hang a door.

Labour only. Ranges for the Portland market, read November 2026. Door, hardware and paint cost extra. Older painted trim (pre-1978) carries its own rules, explained in the Oregon section.

Two common cases, added up straight from the table (arithmetic, not a separate price):

• one door hung and nothing more: $200 to $450, typically $300;
• one door hung, then painted on site: $350 to $1,050, typically near $600, with the door and paint bought separately.

What does the door itself cost, and who buys it?

You won't find a door price on this page. The sheet I work from has no line for one, and store prices shift. The things that change it are simple. Hollow-core is the light, low-cost option. Solid-core weighs more and quiets a room. Solid wood costs the most. Prehung costs more than a slab since a jamb comes attached.

Then there's the face (flat or paneled, primed or prefinished) and the hand. Every door swings left or right, and an unusual width or height tends to mean ordering it and waiting.

Here's one thing in your favor: Oregon has no general sales tax. The shelf price is the price, so national guides that tack tax onto the door overshoot what you'd pay locally.

Plenty of homeowners pick a door up from a home center themselves and pay only for the hanging. That's a perfectly normal way to do it. Whether we bring the door or hang one you bought is something I haven't settled yet .

Can you replace an interior door without replacing the frame?

Yes, as long as the jamb is solid and close to square. Hanging a new door in the old frame is a slab job, and choosing between that and prehung is mostly about cost.

Slab. Cheaper door, fussier labour. Hinge mortises, the latch bore and the fit are all cut by hand to match the old opening, and an opening that's out of square stretches the time.

Prehung. Pricier door, quicker install, since it shows up already hung in a jamb of its own. The old jamb and the casing on both faces of the wall get pulled, which puts new casing and paint touch-up into the price.

A damaged jamb flips the math. On the sheet's figures, a slab plus jamb repair comes to $450 to $1,350 in labour, typically $750. A prehung swap stays within $200 to $450 a door. So a cracked or kicked-in jamb usually argues for prehung. It's sums from the rows, not a fixed rule .

Plenty of the Cedar Hills tract houses built after the war, through the fifties and sixties, are still on their original doors. Cedar Mill's neighborhoods are about a decade younger. Sixty years of settling moves door openings a little. So the slab-or-prehung choice is made in the doorway with a level, not on the phone.

Is $200 a good price for a bedroom door replacement?

For hanging one door, yes. $200 is the floor of the local range ($200 to $450), and it's a fair number for a sound opening when you've bought the door already.

What a $200 figure often doesn't cover: fresh casing, paint, trimming the bottom to clear a new floor, the knob or lever, and taking the old slab away. Ask what's included before you set it against a second quote.

Does replacing several doors at once cost less per door?

Multiply the one-door range and a set looks like this:

Plain multiples of the one-door figure (labour only, local market, November 2026). An actual quote for a batch is often lower per door.

The per-door cost can drop because there's one setup and one trip, and the cutting and painting happen in batches .

Watch the total, too. Seven doors at a typical $300 is $2,100. Under Oregon rules a construction deal over that $2,000 mark has to be written down, so a whole-house job should have a written contract naming every door, what's being done, and what it costs.

Painting a whole set is normally quoted as a single job. Painting trim, doors and baseboards runs $400 to $2,000 around Portland, with $900 typical, labour only, by the same November 2026 sheet . More on our interior painting page.

What else ends up on an interior door quote?

Labour only, local ranges from November 2026; hardware and paint are bought on top. Pre-1978 houses: see the Oregon section.

A few items have no line of their own:

• Cutting the door down for new flooring. LVP, tile or a thicker underlayment can close up the gap under an old door. Bethany was mostly built in the nineties and early 2000s, and now that those floors are a quarter century old, LVP is a popular update there. I'd expect it to fall inside the per-door range .
• New casing. When the old trim splits on the way off, or you'd like a new profile, that falls under trim carpentry.
• The old door. We don't do junk hauling (what we don't do). Whether the old slab and the boxes go with me is still to be settled .

How long does it take to replace an interior door?

The sheet allows about three labour hours to hang a door and about three more to paint it on site. One door fits in part of a day. Painting in place needs drying time between coats, so a second visit is possible .

Does Oregon law change the price?

Permits. Oregon's building codes agency lists a door swap with nothing structural touched among the jobs that don't need a permit. Cutting a fresh opening, or resizing an old one, does call for a local building permit. A same-size replacement therefore has no permit fee. Widening a doorway for a wheelchair or walker is where one comes in, and Angi's national numbers (not Portland's) put it at $300 to $3,000 per doorway, typically $1,200, materials included . The address decides whether the permit office is Washington County's, Beaverton's or Portland's. The permit guide walks through it.

Pre-1978 homes. Oregon has lead-based paint renovation rules for houses this old. Indoors, the line for minor repair is less than six square feet of disturbed paint per room; outdoors it's twenty. The rule doesn't mention doors, so the amount of painted surface decides. That bears on slab versus prehung: hanging a slab in the existing jamb disturbs much less paint than stripping casing from both sides of a wall. A good share of west-side homes predate 1978, among them the older streets of Cedar Hills, Cedar Mill and Beaverton, while Bethany's don't. Our page on Oregon lead paint rules has the details .

Contracts. Anything above $2,000, which a whole-house set can reach, belongs in a written contract.

Is it cheaper to fix the door you have?

Often it is. Rubbing, sagging and a latch that misses are usually repair jobs:

Per job, labour only, local figures as of November 2026.

Our door repair page covers that work. Replacing makes sense when the slab is split, punched through, delaminating or warped, or when you want a different look or a solid-core door for quiet.

Wood takes on water through the rainy season here. A bathroom or laundry door that scrapes in January can swing freely by August, which is what why doors stick is about .

What do closet, pocket and barn doors cost?

Labour only, per job, Portland-area ranges for November 2026.

Each is a different kind of work, and the interior doors service page explains what goes into each.

How do you compare two interior door quotes?

Put both on the table. Each one should state, in writing:

• the door: slab or prehung, hollow or solid core, size and swing;
• old casing kept, or new casing fitted;
• hardware, and who supplies it;
• paint: whose job, how many coats;
• whether the bottom is cut for the floor;
• where the old door ends up;
• a price per door, or one for the whole job.

If one total looks far lower, go down this list first. If several doors push the job past $2,000, the contract must be in writing.