Impact Doors in Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach homes

We know Pompano Beach homes

The city's historical timeline says surveyor Franklyn Sheen is credited with the name, and that the town incorporated in 1908. On June 16, 1947, the beach settlement was annexed and the word Beach was added.

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 older housing

  Mostly before 1979

  The city's housing element says 78 percent of the housing was built before 1979, and that multi-family homes are about 58 percent of the city's units because of the coast and the condominium market.

  For your doors: Older condominiums follow the board's door style. A house from that era is measured opening by opening.

  Housing element

• Collier City

  Mostly single-family

  The Collier City neighborhood plan says it is a bedroom community of mostly single-family homes, with a district of townhomes and apartments.

  For your doors: The single-family houses are measured one opening at a time. A townhome there follows that association's door style.

  Collier City neighborhood plan

• Leisureville Fairway Eight

  Condominium, 1969

  A Property Appraiser card titled Leisureville Fairway Eight Condo lists an actual year built of 1969, in Pompano Beach.

  For your doors: Leisureville Fairway Eight is a condominium, so the board's specs set the door style.

  Broward County Property Appraiser, Leisureville Fairway Eight

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Pompano Beach

Ask whether they confirm the exposure on an oceanfront 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 Pompano Beach

The building office issues the permit. New applications follow the city's apply-for-a-permit page.

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

Pompano Beach impact door questions