Broward County
Broward Is HVHZ. Your Quote Should Say So.
Miami-Dade and Broward are the only two Florida counties in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. We specify by NOA, calculate design pressure opening by opening, and our own crews do the work — including the stucco and the interior.
Give us the address and a rough count of openings. We will tell you what the design pressures are before anyone quotes you a price.
HVHZ
Broward is inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone
NOA
Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance is the approval that governs here
Our crews
We measure, we schedule, and our own people install
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
What we install
What we install
Six opening types, each governed by its own calculated design pressure and its own NOA.
Impact Windows
The core product, and the one most often quoted wrong. What matters is not the brand on the sticker but whether that exact unit holds an NOA for the pressure your specific opening has to resist.
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Sliding Glass Doors
The widest opening in the house, usually facing the water, usually carrying the highest design pressure on the elevation. It is also the one most likely to have been under-specified.
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Entry Doors
An entry door is a small opening carrying a large expectation. On a luxury elevation it is also the piece everyone looks at, which makes the trade-off between approval and appearance sharper here than anywhere else on the house.
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Garage Doors
On most houses the garage door is the single largest opening in the envelope, and the one whose failure does the most damage. It is also the one most often left out of an impact upgrade.
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French & Specialty Openings
Arched heads, French pairs, fixed picture units, corner glazing. These are the openings that give a house its character, and the ones where approval and appearance argue with each other most.
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Impact Glass Retrofit
Replacing the glazing while keeping the existing frames. On the right building it saves real money and real disruption. On the wrong one it produces something that is not approved and cannot be made so.
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Broward specifics
What is different in Broward
HVHZ is two counties. You are in one of them.
Broward Is HVHZ
Miami-Dade and Broward are the only counties inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. It is a genuinely different approval regime, and it is the single fact that should shape a Broward quote.
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Design Pressure
Design pressure is calculated per opening from the building, the site and the unit. It is the number that decides what may legally go in the hole, and most homeowners are never shown it.
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Waterfront & Exposure
Broward is cut through with waterway. A house on the Intracoastal, a finger canal or the ocean carries higher design pressures and a corrosion problem the inland houses do not have.
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Older Housing Stock
A great deal of Broward housing predates the code changes that followed 1992. On those buildings the window is the easy part; what the window is fixed into decides the job.
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How We Work Here
Most of this trade sells the job and subcontracts the installation. We do not. On a house where the finish matters, that is the whole difference.
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The difference
Why people call us rather than a volume installer
Broward is HVHZ, and that is not a marketing word
Miami-Dade and Broward are the only two counties in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. Product here needs a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, tested to large missile impact — a nine-pound two-by-four fired at the glass, then cyclic pressure loading. Everywhere else in Florida uses statewide Product Approval, which is a lower bar. If a quote does not name the NOA number for the unit going in your opening, it is not a quote for a Broward job.
We measure, we schedule, and our own crews install
Most of this trade sells the job and subcontracts the installation to whoever is available that week. We do not. The person who measures your openings works for us, and so do the people who fit them. On a luxury home that difference shows up in the finish — the stucco returns, the interior casing, the paint line — which is the part a window-only company hands to somebody else and you end up chasing.
The installation is the failure point, not the glass
Impact units almost never fail because the glass was inadequate. They fail at the buck, the anchors and the perimeter seal. HVHZ has specific requirements for substrate, embedment and fastener spacing, and they are inspected. A correctly approved window fitted into a rotten wood buck is a failed installation with a compliant sticker on it.
We will tell you when the answer is fewer windows
On a large house the honest sequence is often to do the elevations that actually face the weather first, and the rest later, rather than financing the whole envelope at once. That is a smaller job than the one we could sell you. We would rather have the second phase than an unhappy first one.
Start here
Book a measure
Give us the address and a rough count of openings. We will tell you what the design pressures are before anyone quotes a price.
No obligation, and no pressure to decide on the day.
FAQ
Common questions
- How long does a Broward permit take?
- It varies by municipality and by time of year, and it is rarely the thing that holds a job up. Specialty and shaped units have longer lead times than the permit does, which is why we order those first and start the paperwork alongside rather than after.
- Can the work be done in phases?
- Yes, and on a large house it often should be. The sensible order is the elevations that actually face the weather first, then the sheltered ones later, rather than financing the whole envelope at once. We will tell you which elevations those are at the measure.
- Do we have to move out?
- No. Openings are done a few at a time and the house is closed up each evening. On an occupied luxury home that sequencing is most of the planning, and it is the reason we schedule our own crews rather than take whoever is free.
- Will this reduce my insurance premium?
- It may, through wind mitigation credits, but that is between you and your carrier and we will not put a number on it. What we can do is make sure the documentation your inspector needs exists, which is the part that is actually in our control.
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.