Straight answers to the questions Palm Beach County homeowners ask before hiring an impact window installer. For pricing detail, see the cost guide.
No company in this guide publishes product prices on its own website, so this guide quotes no price range. See the cost guide for what drives a quote and what a written quote should itemize.
Yes — Florida licenses contractors at the state level through the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). Eight companies in this guide publish a license number on their own website: Coastal Impact Windows & Doors (CGC1528942), Boca Impact Window and Door (CGC1520762), 1 OAK Home Improvement (CGC1532081 and CCC1334054), 561-Windows (CGC1539216), Window Guys of Florida (CGC1518491 and SCC131151139), Monster Impact Windows and Doors (CRC1335543), Guardian Impact Windows & Roofing (CGC1524314 and CCC1334906) and SOFLO Impact Windows (CBC1265061). Ask any other installer for its number.
In practice, yes — impact window installation involves structural openings, product approvals and inspections. Coastal measures, permits and installs; 1 OAK, K Line, 561-Windows and Guardian all handle permits. Ask each installer who pulls the permits and handles the inspections, and get it in the written scope.
They are product certifications for hurricane zones: Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA) and High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) ratings. In this guide, NSE Windows of Florida and 561-Windows claim Miami-Dade certification or approval, Seascape and SOFLO claim HVHZ-rated products, and Windpact claims category 5+ storm protection. Ask the installer for the rating documentation of the exact product proposed.
Possibly. Coastal Impact Windows & Doors offers help with My Safe Florida Home grants, and A-Christian Glass is an approved Hurricane Resistant Impact Windows & Doors contractor for the program. Grant rules and funding change, so confirm current terms with the program itself and ask the installer what paperwork it handles.
Impact windows are always in place: the glass itself is rated to resist wind-borne debris, with no panels to put up before a storm. Shutters are a separate product that must be deployed. This guide lists impact window companies; if you want shutters, ask an installer whether it offers them — Paradise Exteriors lists storm windows among its services.
No company in this guide is based in Lake Worth, Royal Palm Beach, Lantana, Greenacres or Atlantis — those towns are served by companies based elsewhere in the county. Stuart is served only through The Window Professionals' showroom there, and Deerfield Beach is served by service-area companies (Guardian and SOFLO). If you live in one of these areas, ask the installer whether it serves your town before assuming coverage.
Compare the same scope: product and rating for every opening, frame material, permits and inspections, installation labor, trim and finishing, disposal, and warranty — product, glass breakage and labor, in writing. A quote that leaves out the permits, the trim or the warranty will look cheaper and cost more later. Request up to three quotes with one form and compare them side by side.