Impact Doors in Lighthouse Point

Lighthouse Point homes

We know Lighthouse Point homes

The city's history page says 107 of about 600 residents voted to incorporate the Town of Lighthouse Point on June 13, 1956. The charter, adopted June 11, 1957, abolished the town and established the City of Lighthouse Point.

All of Broward County is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (FBC 2023 §1620). Each door needs a Miami-Dade NOA or an HVHZ-rated Florida Product Approval.

Neighborhoods

Where the door goes

• The original plats

  1950s to 1970s houses

  The city's support elements say most single-family homes sit in three original plats: Lighthouse Point, Venetian Isles, and Coral Key Villas. They were developed from the 1950s through the 1970s, along the canals, Lake Placid, and the Intracoastal.

  For your doors: Those mid-century single-family houses are measured opening by opening, and we check the threshold on the dock side.

  Support elements

• Tillotson Square

  Townhouses and duplexes

  The same plan says Tillotson Square, in the southeast of the city, mixes townhouses, duplexes, and multi-family residences.

  For your doors: Tillotson Square is not one house type, so we match the door to the townhouse, duplex, or multi-family opening in front of us.

  Support elements

• Palm-Aire of Coral Key

  Multi-family on the Intracoastal

  The plan names Palm-Aire of Coral Key as a multi-family development on NE 48th Court, next to the Intracoastal.

  For your doors: Palm-Aire of Coral Key is multi-family, so the association's specs set the door style.

  Support elements

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Lighthouse Point

Ask whether they confirm the exposure on an oceanfront or canal lot before they size the door.

• State license

  Certified general contractor CGC-1533058. You can look it up on the Florida DBPR site.

• Permit in our name

  We file the door permit in our name and stay with it until inspection approval closes it.

• Lifetime labor, original owner

  The lifetime labor warranty covers you, the original owner. It doesn't pass to a new owner if you sell.

• Insured and bonded

  General liability, workers' comp, and a bond. Condo boards often ask for the certificate, and we send it.

• 4.8 on Google

  258 reviews averaging 4.8. Read the critical ones as well.

Permits in Lighthouse Point

The Building Department issues the permit. The counter is at 3701 NE 22nd Avenue, Lighthouse Point, FL 33064.

Jobs over $5,000 need a recorded notice of commencement (Fla. Stat. §713.135). You sign; we record it.

Wind code for doors

All of Broward County is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (FBC 2023 §1620). The engineer or the county wind load chart sets each wall's design pressure, and the door's approval has to meet it.

Doors up to 30 feet are tested with the large missile, a 9-pound 2x4. Above 30 feet, the small-missile test (steel balls) applies (FBC 2023 §1626).

Canal, lake and golf-course lots stay Exposure C. Oceanfront sites with a long open-water fetch may be Exposure D; we confirm the exposure for each address.

Under BORA Formal Interpretation #24, a house or townhouse under 30 feet can use a sealed site plan, a sealed worst-case chart, or Broward's voluntary wind-load chart. At 30 feet or more, the interpretation requires a sealed site-specific design, and generic charts are not accepted.

Condos and HOAs

Under §718.113(5) the board sets hurricane-protection specs and can't refuse a unit that follows them, though it can require the building's existing look.

Under §720.3035(6) an HOA can't deny impact doors that meet the specs it adopted.

Installed estimates

Prices by size and door type

Impact doors

Installed estimates that vary with size, glass, and options. Every home gets its own written quote.

Grants and insurance

My Safe Florida Home and your wind-mitigation form

If you qualify for My Safe Florida Home, the state pays $2 for every $1 you pay, up to $10,000, after the program's free wind-mitigation visit (Fla. Stat. §215.5586). How the program works.

Impact doors count toward opening protection, Question 9 on Florida's wind-mitigation form OIR-B1-1802 (Rev. 04/26). OIR-B1-1802. A licensed inspector fills it out after the work, and your insurer sets the discount.

Questions

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