Impact Doors in Margate

Margate homes

We know Margate homes

The city's area page says Margate was created as a town in 1955 and incorporated as a city in 1961. The name is said to join the first three letters of founder Jack Marqusee's last name with the first four letters of gateway.

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

• Coral Bay

  Single-family, some on the lake

  The city's Coral Bay standards are written for single-family detached houses and set a 20-foot rear yard on the lake.

  For your doors: Coral Bay houses are single-family, and the lake-lot ones need the threshold checked on the water side before the door is ordered.

  Coral Bay development standards

• Townhomes of Oriole

  Townhomes with a club

  The recreation element lists Townhomes of Oriole with a pool, club, and courts, and says amenities built with the surrounding homes are turned over to the master association.

  For your doors: Townhomes of Oriole has an association, so that board's specs set the door style.

  Recreation and open space element

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Margate

Ask whether they submit new permits only through ProjectDox. The city does not take new paper submittals.

• 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 Margate

The Building Department issues the permit. The counter is at 901 NW 66th Avenue, Margate, FL 33063. The city says all new permit submittals are electronic, through ProjectDox.

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

Margate impact door questions