Impact Doors in Wilton Manors

Wilton Manors homes

We know Wilton Manors homes

The Island City profile says Wilton Manors incorporated in June 1947 as a village under Chapter 165, and that Chapter 29609 of the 1953 Laws of Florida made it a city. Community Development is at City Hall, 2020 Wilton Drive, and permit applications go through Citizenserve.

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 housing mix

  More multi-family than detached

  The 2021 housing element, using the 2011–2015 Census estimates, says 35.9 percent of 7,625 units are detached single-family houses, 8.1 percent are attached single-family, and 56 percent are multi-family.

  For your doors: In a multi-family building the board's specs set the door style. A detached house is measured on its own.

  Comprehensive plan, housing element

• Houses from before 1968

  About 3,801 older units

  The same element says about 3,801 units were built before 1968, and that the city has been built out since the mid-1960s.

  For your doors: On a house from before 1968 we measure the opening as it stands and fit the impact door to it.

  Comprehensive plan, housing element

• The Middle River

  The island boundary

  The housing element says the city is called the Island City because its boundaries follow the North and South Forks of the Middle River.

  For your doors: On a house along either fork of the Middle River, we check the threshold on the river side before the door is ordered.

  Comprehensive plan, housing element

Before you sign

Choosing an impact door company in Wilton Manors

Ask whether they file in Citizenserve and whether the unit is one of the multi-family homes, where the board sets the door style.

• 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 Wilton Manors

Community Development issues the permit. Applications are submitted online through Citizenserve. The office is at City Hall, 2020 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305.

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

Wilton Manors impact door questions