Impact Doors in Miramar

Miramar homes

We know Miramar homes

The city's history page says Miramar incorporated on May 26, 1955, with fewer than 200 people. First mayor Robert Gordon gave it the name. The city says Miramar means look at the sea in Spanish. The address on that page is 2300 Civic Center Place.

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

• Mailman's first houses

  Built in 1953

  The city's founding page says A.L. Mailman bought the first tract from H.D. Perry Sr. in 1953 and built 56 inexpensive concrete houses with flat roofs.

  For your doors: On those early houses we measure every door opening and fit the impact door to it.

  Founding the city

• Parc View

  Two-story townhomes

  The city says Parc View Townhomes, in Historic Miramar, will be 66 new two-story townhomes, with two or three bedrooms.

  For your doors: Parc View is townhomes, so the association's specs set the door style and we measure the two-story opening.

  Parc View Townhomes

• Miramar Town Center

  Apartments and townhomes

  The city says the Town Center uses Mediterranean-style architecture, with 370 garden apartments and 134 townhomes, and waterfront views.

  For your doors: Town Center mixes apartments and townhomes, so the board's specs set the door style.

  Miramar Town Center

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Miramar

Ask whether they measure the early concrete houses instead of assuming a stock door size.

• 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 Miramar

The Building Division issues the permit. The address printed on the city's history page is 2300 Civic Center Place, Miramar, FL 33025.

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

Miramar impact door questions