Southwest Florida specifics · How We Work Here
We Cross From the East Coast. Here Is What That Means.
We are based in Fort Lauderdale and Southwest Florida is the other side of the state. We work it in planned blocks, which has consequences worth knowing before you call rather than after.
Tell us the address and whether the property has been repaired since 2022. That second answer decides whether this is a window job or something larger.
50%
The threshold that turns a repair into a compliance project
Wind
Impact glass is a wind product. We will not sell it as flood protection
Our crews
We measure, we schedule, and our own people install
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
The contractor who sells the job and is never seen again
In this trade the person who quotes is frequently unconnected to the people who install. A price is agreed, the job goes to whichever crew has a gap, and on the first morning the homeowner meets people who were in none of the conversations that decided the work. Every decision that mattered — the pressure calculation, the approval, the sill detail, what the survey found — sits in a document nobody on site has read.
How a job runs with us
- A booked survey at the property, with every opening measured.
- The floodplain and permit-history questions asked at the start.
- A written specification naming an approval against each opening.
- Long-lead and shaped units ordered before anything simple begins.
- Our own crews on site, working in blocks rather than day trips.
- Returns, casing and making good kept inside our scope.
- Documentation handed over for the wind mitigation inspection.
Why the finishing stays with us
Most of this trade treats the window as the job and the stucco returns, the interior casing and the paint line as somebody else's problem. The owner is then left coordinating a stucco contractor and a painter around a house that is technically complete and obviously is not.
That is a poor outcome anywhere and worse when the contractor is based across the state and has already moved to the next block of work. Keeping it in scope means we are the ones who have to come back if it is wrong, which is the correct incentive.
How we handle it
- 01Survey and specify first, so the number we give is one we can hold.
- 02Pull the permit with the correct department as contractor of record.
- 03Install with our own people and finish both faces of every opening.
- 04Give a real start date, including when the real one is a month out.
Working in blocks is the honest consequence of the drive. It makes us worth booking in advance and no use in a hurry. For an owner planning work around a season or a trip, that scheduling usually suits — we would rather agree a window well ahead than promise next week and let you down.
Said plainly
Where we stop
We do not fit shutters, we are not floodplain consultants, we do not do emergency board-up on this coast, and we cannot start next week. If any of those is what you need, knowing now saves us both a visit.
FAQ
Common questions
- Are you local to Naples?
- No. We are Fort Lauderdale based and work Collier and Lee in scheduled blocks. We would rather say so than claim an office we do not have. A local contractor may start sooner, and if speed matters most that is a fair reason to use one.
- Does the distance cost me more?
- It affects scheduling more than price. Working in blocks is how we avoid pricing a cross-state trip into every individual job, which is why we would rather book you into a planned run than treat you as a one-off.
- Can you work while I am away?
- Yes, with access arranged in advance and a named local contact who can let us in and make decisions. We set that up at survey rather than discovering the gap on the first morning.
- Do you handle the permit?
- Yes, as contractor of record with the right department for your address. What we leave with you afterwards is the documentation a wind mitigation inspection will ask for.
What we install
Impact Windows
The core product. In Collier and Lee the common situation is not an old house with old windows — it is a reasonably new house that was built fully compliant using shutters, with glazing that was never rated at all.
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Sliding Glass Doors
On this coast the sliders open onto the lanai and they are the widest thing in the building. On a property that took water in 2022 they are also where the evidence of it is easiest to read.
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Impact Entry Doors
An approved entry door is a whole assembly — slab, frame, hinges, lock, threshold and any glazing — approved as one thing. On this coast the threshold detail matters more than most people expect.
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Impact Garage Doors
In most houses the double garage door is the widest opening in the whole envelope. In Collier and Lee it is also the one nearest the ground, which drags it into a conversation that has nothing to do with wind at all.
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French & Specialty Shapes
Arched heads, radius transoms, oversized fixed glass and French pairs are fabricated for one opening in one house. In a region still working through a rebuild, the queue in front of them is longer than the brochure suggests.
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Glazing Into Existing Frames
Where existing frames are sound and an approval exists for glazing into them, changing only the glass is cheaper, faster and far less disruptive. On this coast it suits the condominium stock particularly well.
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More southwest florida specifics
The 50% Rule
If the cost of repairs or improvements reaches half the structure's value, floodplain rules can require the entire building to be brought into current compliance — which may include elevating it. That is a different project from replacing windows.
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A Two-Year-Old Rebuild
Most Florida markets deal with old repair work of uncertain quality. Here the work is recent, and the problem is the opposite one: it has not had time to settle, and a share of the people who did it are no longer in the state.
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Wind Product, Water Market
Impact glazing is tested against a flying object and a pressure cycle. It is a wind product. In the parts of this region worst hit in 2022, the destroying force was water, and no window on the market addresses that.
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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.