Impact Doors in Southwest Ranches

Southwest Ranches homes

We know Southwest Ranches homes

The town's July 2025 newsletter prints Town Hall at 13400 Griffin Road and says building permits are handled by CAP Government. The town's new-house packet says that office is at 3265 Meridian Parkway, Suite 100, Weston.

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 whole town

  Single-family only

  The town's comprehensive plan says officials know there are no multi-family units in the town, so the housing is entirely single-family. The July 2025 newsletter adds a one-acre minimum lot size.

  For your doors: Every house is single-family on a large lot, so we measure that opening. There is no condo board setting one door style.

  2021 comprehensive plan

• Country Estates

  Single-family, 1977

  Two Property Appraiser cards in Country Estates both list single-family houses with an actual year built of 1977.

  For your doors: Those 1977 houses are measured opening by opening before the door is ordered.

  Broward County Property Appraiser, Country Estates

• Ivanhoe Estates

  Single-family

  Property Appraiser cards in Ivanhoe Estates list single-family houses. The two cards checked show actual years built of 1981 and 1985.

  For your doors: Those 1980s 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, Ivanhoe Estates

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Southwest Ranches

Ask whether they file with CAP Government at the Meridian Parkway office, not only at Town Hall.

• 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 Southwest Ranches

CAP Government issues the building permit for the town. The office in the new-house packet is 3265 Meridian Parkway, Suite 100, Weston, FL 33331. Town Hall is at 13400 Griffin Road.

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

Southwest Ranches impact door questions