Miami-Dade specifics · How We Work Here
We Are Broward Based, and We Say So
We are a Fort Lauderdale contractor working throughout Miami-Dade. That means scheduled work rather than same-day, and it means the people who fit your windows are on our payroll.
Give us the address and tell us whether it is a condo or a historic district. Those two answers change the job more than the window does.
NOA
The approval that governs your window is issued by this county
HVHZ
Miami-Dade is one of only two counties in the zone
Our crews
We measure, we schedule, and our own people install
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
Three companies and nobody responsible
The usual structure in this trade is a sales company, a subcontracted crew and a separate trade to repair the stucco and interior afterwards. Everyone gets paid for their piece and nobody answers for the whole. When the return is rough or a unit leaks in the first storm, the homeowner becomes the project manager for a problem they did not create.
How we run it instead
- The person who takes the measurements is our employee.
- So is every member of the crew who turns up to fit them.
- Patching the stucco outside and the casing inside is our job, not a follow-on trade.
- One programme, and one number to ring when you want to know where it is.
- We pull the permit and we meet the inspector.
What that means for programme
A sell-and-subcontract operation can start sooner because it is buying capacity on the open market. We are scheduling our own people, so the start date is real but not always immediate. On a historic or condo job the approval usually sets the pace anyway, and specialty units have longer lead times than either.
The practical advice is to start the conversation well before you want the work done — particularly with board review or association approval in front of it. The measure costs nothing and settles the programme question early.
How we handle it
- 01Survey, specification and programme are done together, not in sequence.
- 02Fit it with our own people.
- 03Close out both sides — the return outside and the casing inside.
- 04Carry the permit and meet the inspector.
On a Gables or Beach elevation the window is not the deliverable — the elevation is. The reveal, the return, the casing and the paint line are part of the job rather than a tidy-up afterwards. That is slower than a sell-and-subcontract model and it is why clients in the districts and the towers call us rather than a volume installer.
Said plainly
Where we stop
We are Broward based. Miami-Dade work is scheduled rather than same-day, and in the run-up to season the diary fills. If you need a whole building done inside a fortnight in September, we will give you a straight answer about whether that is possible.
FAQ
Common questions
- Is any of the work subcontracted?
- The window installation and the making good are ours. Where a job needs an engineer, structural work or a preservation consultant, we bring in the right person and say so — but the trade that fits your windows works for us.
- You are in Broward. Does that matter?
- For scheduling, yes, and we would rather be straight about it than pretend otherwise. Miami-Dade work is booked rather than same-day. For the work itself it changes nothing — the code, the approvals and the inspections are what they are.
- How far ahead should I book?
- Earlier than most people expect, especially with a board or an association in the sequence. Approval and specialty lead times set the programme more than our diary does.
What we install
Impact Windows
The core product, and in this county the one you can actually verify. Every unit should arrive with a Notice of Acceptance number you can look up yourself.
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Sliding Glass Doors
In Miami the widest opening is usually a balcony slider, on an elevation facing open water, high above grade. It carries the highest load on the unit and the most demanding installation detail.
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Entry Doors
A small opening carrying a large expectation — and in a historic district, the single element most likely to be conditioned by a review board.
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Garage Doors
On a single-family Miami house the garage door is the largest opening in the envelope and the one whose failure does the most damage. It is also the one most often left out of a window upgrade.
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French & Specialty Openings
Arched heads, French pairs, fixed picture units, corner glazing. On Mediterranean Revival and Art Deco elevations these are not decoration — they are the building, and they are where approval and appearance argue hardest.
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Impact Glass Retrofit
Replacing the glazing and keeping the existing frames. On the right building it saves real money and real disruption, and on a condo it can sidestep an association appearance argument entirely.
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More miami-dade specifics
The NOA Is Issued Here
The Notice of Acceptance that governs your window is issued by Miami-Dade County Product Control. It is public, numbered and searchable — which makes a quote here checkable in a way it is nowhere else in Florida.
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Historic Districts
Several Miami-Dade municipalities review exterior changes before a permit is issued. In a historic district the design question is settled before the code question, and the order matters.
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Condos & Associations
In a high-rise the window is usually a limited common element. The association controls specification, colour and often the contractor, and a unit owner who orders unilaterally can be made to take the work out.
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Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.