Broward specifics · How We Work Here
We Measure It, We Schedule It, and Our People Fit It
Most of this trade sells the job and subcontracts the installation. We do not. On a house where the finish matters, that is the whole difference.
Give us the address and a rough count of openings. We will tell you what the design pressures are before anyone quotes you a price.
HVHZ
Broward is inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone
NOA
Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance is the approval that governs here
Our crews
We measure, we schedule, and our own people install
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
Three companies and nobody responsible
The common structure in this trade is a sales company, a subcontracted install crew and a separate trade to repair the stucco and the interior afterwards. Each is paid for their part and none owns the result. When the paint line is wrong or the return is rough or a unit leaks in the first storm, the homeowner becomes the project manager for a problem they did not create, chasing three companies who each believe it belongs to one of the others.
How we run it instead
- The person who measures your openings works for us.
- The crew that fits them works for us.
- Stucco returns and interior making good are in our scope, not somebody else's.
- One schedule, and one person to call about it.
- Permit and inspection handled as part of the job.
What that means for programme
A sell-and-sub operation can start sooner, because it is buying capacity on the market. We are scheduling our own people, so the start date is real but it is not always immediate. Specialty and shaped units set the pace on most jobs anyway, since those lead times are longer than anything else in the process.
The practical advice is to start the conversation well before you want the work done, particularly if the house has arches, corner assemblies or oversized sliders. The measure costs you nothing and it fixes the programme question early.
How we handle it
- 01Measure, specify and schedule as one exercise.
- 02Install with our own crews.
- 03Finish both faces — exterior returns and interior casing.
- 04Carry the permit and meet the inspector ourselves.
On a luxury house the window is not the deliverable — the elevation is. That means the reveal, the return, the casing and the paint line are part of the job rather than a tidy-up afterwards. It is slower than a sell-and-sub model and it is the reason clients on the water and in the older neighbourhoods call us rather than a volume installer.
Said plainly
Where we stop
It also means we cannot do the volume a subcontracting model can. Our schedule is genuinely finite, and in the run-up to season it fills. If you need a whole house done inside a fortnight in September, we will tell you honestly whether that is possible.
FAQ
Common questions
- Do you subcontract any of it?
- The window installation and the making good are ours. Where a job needs an engineer or structural work, we bring in the right person for that and say so — but the trade that fits your windows works for us.
- How far ahead should I be booking?
- Earlier than most people think, especially with specialty shapes. The units set the programme more than our diary does.
- Do you handle the permit and inspection?
- Yes, as part of the job. The approval documents that go with the permit are ours to produce, and we meet the inspector rather than leaving you to.
What we install
Impact Windows
The core product, and the one most often quoted wrong. What matters is not the brand on the sticker but whether that exact unit holds an NOA for the pressure your specific opening has to resist.
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Sliding Glass Doors
The widest opening in the house, usually facing the water, usually carrying the highest design pressure on the elevation. It is also the one most likely to have been under-specified.
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Entry Doors
An entry door is a small opening carrying a large expectation. On a luxury elevation it is also the piece everyone looks at, which makes the trade-off between approval and appearance sharper here than anywhere else on the house.
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Garage Doors
On most houses the garage door is the single largest opening in the envelope, and the one whose failure does the most damage. It is also the one most often left out of an impact upgrade.
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French & Specialty Openings
Arched heads, French pairs, fixed picture units, corner glazing. These are the openings that give a house its character, and the ones where approval and appearance argue with each other most.
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Impact Glass Retrofit
Replacing the glazing while keeping the existing frames. On the right building it saves real money and real disruption. On the wrong one it produces something that is not approved and cannot be made so.
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More broward specifics
Broward Is HVHZ
Miami-Dade and Broward are the only counties inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. It is a genuinely different approval regime, and it is the single fact that should shape a Broward quote.
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Design Pressure
Design pressure is calculated per opening from the building, the site and the unit. It is the number that decides what may legally go in the hole, and most homeowners are never shown it.
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Waterfront & Exposure
Broward is cut through with waterway. A house on the Intracoastal, a finger canal or the ocean carries higher design pressures and a corrosion problem the inland houses do not have.
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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.