Impact Doors in Plantation

Plantation homes

We know Plantation homes

The city's history page says Plantation incorporated on April 30, 1953, with fewer than 500 people and a budget of $1,288. The first council met on May 11, 1953, in an old feed warehouse at East Acre Drive and Broward Boulevard. Ellsworth D. Gage was the first mayor.

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

• East Acre Drive

  The first houses

  The city's history page says the first houses went up on East Acre Drive, on one-acre lots, and that the plan kept neighboring houses from looking alike.

  For your doors: Those early houses are not a repeated condo opening, so we measure each one and fit the door to it.

  History

• Plantation Golf Estates

  Single-family

  A Property Appraiser card in Plantation Golf Estates lists a single-family house with an actual year built of 1954.

  For your doors: That 1950s house is measured opening by opening before the door is ordered.

  Broward County Property Appraiser, Plantation Golf Estates

• Melaleuca Isles

  Single-family

  Property Appraiser cards in Melaleuca Isles list single-family houses. The two cards checked show actual years built of 1973 and 1979.

  For your doors: Those 1970s houses are measured one opening at a time. The years differ, so we do not assume one build year for the plat.

  Broward County Property Appraiser, Melaleuca Isles

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Plantation

Ask whether they file with the Department of Building Safety and stay with the permit until the city closes it.

• 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 Plantation

The Department of Building Safety issues the permit.

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

Plantation impact door questions