Palm Beach specifics · How We Work Here
Broward Based, Working North. Here Is How That Actually Runs.
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.
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
The contractor who sells the job and disappears before the crew arrives
In this trade the person who quotes is very often not connected to the person who installs. The sale is made, the job is passed to whichever crew is free, and the homeowner discovers on the first morning that nobody on site was part of the conversation they had. Every specification decision that mattered — the pressure calculation, the approval number, the sill detail — lives in a document the crew has not read.
How a job runs with us
- A scheduled survey, at the property, measuring every opening.
- A written specification with an approval number per opening.
- The municipal review question settled before anything is ordered.
- The permit package prepared and submitted.
- Long-lead and specialty units ordered first.
- Installation by our own crews, elevation by elevation.
- Returns, casing and finishing inside our scope, not a separate trade.
Why the finishing is in scope
Most of this trade treats the window as the job and the stucco returns, the interior casing and the paint line as somebody else's problem. The homeowner is then left coordinating a stucco contractor and a painter around a house that is technically finished and visibly is not.
We keep that work in scope because it is the part you look at every day. The pressure calculation is what protects the house; the returns and the casing are what make it look like the windows were always there. Both are part of doing the job, and only one of them is ever mentioned in a quote.
How we handle it
- 01Survey and specify before quoting a number we intend to keep.
- 02Handle the permit rather than leaving it with the homeowner.
- 03Install with our own people and finish both sides of every opening.
- 04Hand over the approval documentation for the mitigation inspection.
Being Broward based means our crews travel north, and the honest consequence is that we schedule rather than turn up. We are not the company to call for an emergency board-up in Jupiter this afternoon. We are a reasonable company to call for a planned replacement where the specification is going to be checked and the finishing is going to be done properly.
Said plainly
Where we stop
We do not fit shutters, we do not represent clients at design review hearings, and we do not do same-day work in Palm Beach County. Where any of those is what you actually need, saying so now saves us both a visit.
FAQ
Common questions
- Are you actually local to Palm Beach County?
- We are based in Broward and work throughout Palm Beach County. We would rather say that plainly than claim an office we do not have. It means our work here is scheduled rather than immediate, and it means we specify for your county rather than importing ours.
- How long does a whole-house replacement take?
- The installation itself is usually the shortest part. Lead times on made-to-order units, and design review where it applies, are what set the calendar. We would rather give you a real date once the units are confirmed than an optimistic one at the quote.
- Do you handle the permit?
- Yes. The permit package, the product approval documentation and the inspection coordination are ours. What we leave with you afterwards is the paperwork the wind mitigation inspection will ask for.
- Can I do the house in phases?
- Yes, and on a large western house it is often the sensible way to fund it. The caveat is the one on the debris page — a partly protected envelope is doing less than it appears to, so phasing should be a budgeting decision made knowingly rather than a quiet compromise.
What we install
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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More palm beach specifics
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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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.