What we install · Entry Doors
The Door the Board Will Actually Look At
A small opening carrying a large expectation — and in a historic district, the single element most likely to be conditioned by a review board.
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
A rated slab in an unrated frame
Impact approval is granted to an assembly — slab, frame, hardware and anchoring together — never to the door leaf alone. Fitting a rated slab into an existing frame, or pairing it with a decorative frame carrying no acceptance, produces a door that looks compliant and is not. It is the most common thing we find on entrances somebody else has already done.
What the approval covers
- The complete assembly including sidelights and transoms.
- The frame, and how it is fixed back to whatever is behind the stucco.
- Hardware, including multipoint locking where required.
- How much glass the slab carries, and where it sits within it.
- Swing direction, and whether it is inswing or outswing.
Where appearance and approval argue hardest
Everywhere else on a house the attractive product and the approved product are usually the same. At the entrance they diverge — wide leaves, slim frames and large or unusual glass are exactly the features that make an assembly harder to approve at HVHZ pressures.
Add a review board with a view on profile and finish and the field narrows again. There is no trick that resolves it, but the approved field is far better looking than most people expect, and knowing the constraint early is what buys the best result inside it.
How we handle it
- 01Replace the assembly rather than the slab.
- 02Confirm sidelights and transoms fall under the same acceptance.
- 03Establish district or association appearance rules first.
- 04Make good the threshold, casing and exterior finish.
In the Gables and on the Beach we settle appearance before product. The list of assemblies that satisfy both a preservation board and the pressure requirement is short, and it is far cheaper to work inside it from the start than to discover it after a deposit on a door that will not be approved.
Said plainly
Where we stop
A genuinely bespoke joinery door will not carry an impact acceptance. The real choice is an approved assembly that comes close on appearance, or an unrated door with the risk taken knowingly. Both are legitimate; we will not present one as the other.
FAQ
Common questions
- Can I keep my existing frame?
- Not if you want an approved assembly. The acceptance covers frame, slab, hardware and anchoring as one unit, so a rated slab in an old frame is not a rated door however good the slab is.
- Will a historic board reject an impact door?
- Not usually. It will have views on profile, colour and glass, which narrows the choice rather than removing it. Bring the board into the sequence before the deposit, not after.
- Do sidelights need approving too?
- Yes, and they are frequently missed. If they are part of the opening they are part of the assembly, and an acceptance covering only the centre leaf does not cover them.
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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High-Rise Exposure
Design pressure rises with height above grade, and it peaks at building corners. On a tower, the same window that is comfortable on the third floor may not be approved on the twentieth.
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How We Work Here
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.
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More 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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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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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.