Palm Beach County
You Are Not in the HVHZ. Your Quote Should Know That.
The High Velocity Hurricane Zone is Miami-Dade and Broward. Palm Beach County is governed by statewide Florida Product Approval — a much wider field of products at the same calculated performance. We specify for your address, not for the county to the south.
Give us the address. In this county the address decides the pressure, the review, and often the price — before the window does.
Not HVHZ
Palm Beach uses statewide approval, not a Miami-Dade NOA
Still required
The county sits in the wind-borne debris region
Our crews
We measure, we schedule, and our own people install
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
What we install
What we install
Six opening types, each carrying its own approval number and its own calculated pressure.
Impact Windows
The core product, and in this county the one most often over-specified. Palm Beach is outside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the approved field is wide — and the job is choosing correctly inside it rather than defaulting to the most expensive label.
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Sliding Glass Doors
Sliders are the largest glazed openings in most Palm Beach homes and the ones where a size-based approval limit is most likely to be exceeded. They are also where the structural question above the opening gets skipped.
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Impact Entry Doors
An approved entry door is an assembly. The slab, frame, hinges, lock, threshold and glazing are approved together, and changing one part outside the approval invalidates the whole thing.
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Impact Garage Doors
A double garage door is usually the biggest single opening in the building envelope. It is also the one clients most often leave off a window quote, because it does not feel like a window.
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French & Specialty Shapes
Arched heads, radius tops, oversized fixed glass and French pairs are common on Palm Beach houses and are made to order. They carry the longest lead times on any job and the least flexibility if something is measured wrong.
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Glazing Into Existing Frames
Where the existing frames are structurally sound and an approval exists for glazing into them, replacing only the glass is cheaper, faster and less disruptive than a full replacement.
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Palm Beach specifics
What is different in Palm Beach
The strictest code in the country stops at your southern county line. That is worth understanding before you buy.
You Are Not in the HVHZ
The High Velocity Hurricane Zone is Miami-Dade and Broward. It is not Palm Beach. Your openings are governed by statewide Florida Product Approval, which is a wider field, and knowing that changes what you should be quoted.
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The Debris Region
The second mistake in this county is the opposite of the first. Being outside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone is not being outside the requirement — Palm Beach County sits in the wind-borne debris region, and openings need protecting.
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Design Review on the Island
The Town of Palm Beach reviews the appearance of exterior work, and several other municipalities in the county run their own review. Where that applies, the design question is settled before the code question, and the order is not negotiable.
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The Western Communities
Move inland from the coast and the calculated pressures fall while the houses get larger. That combination changes the economics of a job here more than anything else in the county.
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How We Work Here
We are based in Broward and we work throughout Palm Beach County. That is worth stating plainly, along with what it does and does not mean for how a job runs.
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The difference
Why people call us rather than a volume installer
You are not in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, and that is worth money
The HVHZ is Miami-Dade and Broward. Palm Beach County is not in it. Your windows are governed by statewide Florida Product Approval, and the approved field is much wider than the Miami-Dade one — more manufacturers, more configurations, more sizes, and usually a lower price for the same calculated performance. A quote that assumes you need a Miami-Dade acceptance has not asked where you live.
You do still need protection, and that catches people the other way
Being outside the HVHZ is not being outside the requirement. Palm Beach County sits in the wind-borne debris region, so openings need impact-rated units or approved shutters. The two errors are symmetrical and both are expensive: paying for a Miami-Dade product you were never required to buy, or assuming that no HVHZ means no requirement.
The number that matters is calculated for your address, not printed on a brochure
Design wind pressure changes across this county. The barrier island and the coastal strip carry higher figures than the western communities, and exposure, height and where the opening sits on the elevation change it again. We quote against a calculated pressure per opening rather than a single figure applied to the whole house.
We measure, we schedule, and our own crews install
Most of this trade sells the job and subcontracts the installation to whoever is free that week. We do not. The stucco returns and the interior casing are in our scope rather than handed to a separate trade you end up chasing — which on an island elevation under design review is the part that shows.
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Book a measure
Give us the address. In this county the address decides the pressure, the review requirement, and often the price.
No obligation, and no pressure to decide on the day.
FAQ
Common questions
- Is Palm Beach County in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone?
- No. The HVHZ covers Miami-Dade and Broward only. Palm Beach County is governed by statewide Florida Product Approval, which is a wider approved field and generally a lower price for the same calculated performance.
- So do I still need impact windows?
- Yes, in the sense that glazed openings need protecting. Palm Beach County sits in the wind-borne debris region, so openings need impact-rated units or approved shutters. Outside the HVHZ is not outside the requirement.
- Why has a contractor quoted me Miami-Dade product?
- Usually because they are based below the county line and specify the same way everywhere. It is not wrong and the product is tested harder. It is a narrower and dearer field than the one you are entitled to buy from, so ask to see the calculation that justifies it.
- Do you subcontract the installation?
- No. Our own crews install and finish, including stucco returns and interior making good. Where a job needs an engineer or an architect for design review, we bring in the right person and say so.
Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.