Impact Doors in Pembroke Park

Pembroke Park homes

We know Pembroke Park homes

The town's own history page says Pembroke Park incorporated on December 10, 1957. The town is 1.6 square miles, and six-tenths of a square mile is lakes that used to be rock quarries. Town Hall is at 3150 SW 52nd Avenue.

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 quarry lakes

  Former rock quarries

  The town's history page says lakes cover six-tenths of a square mile, and that those lakes were rock quarries.

  For your doors: On a house beside one of those lakes, we check the threshold on the water side before the door is ordered.

  Our town

• The western edge

  Apartments, villas, townhomes

  The same page says new apartments, villas, and townhomes are on the western edge of town.

  For your doors: Those are three different openings, so we measure the apartment, villa, or townhome in front of us and follow that association's door style.

  Our town

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Pembroke Park

Ask whether they file with the town's Building Department and check a lake lot's exposure 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 Pembroke Park

The Building Department issues the permit. Town Hall is at 3150 SW 52nd Avenue, Pembroke Park, FL 33023. Online applications go through the town's permitting system.

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

Pembroke Park impact door questions