Custom Windows & Doors in Fort Lauderdale - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Custom Windows & Doors Across Fort Lauderdale

Custom windows and doors in Fort Lauderdale carry a code burden most of Florida never deals with. This city sits inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, a designation shared only with Miami-Dade County. Every replacement window and door here must carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance or an HVHZ-rated Florida Product Approval. We know that because we pull these permits weekly, not occasionally. Our Custom Windows & Doors team works properties from Victoria Park to unincorporated Broadview Park, and we scope each job against Broward County requirements before we quote. Call (863) 591-8673 and a live person answers, any hour.

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Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Fort Lauderdale’s Preferred Custom Windows & Doors Company

TruePane was founded in 2008 by Dale Kessler, a second-generation glazier who built the company on one rule: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That rule governs every Fort Lauderdale Window Replacement we run, whether it’s a single custom shape window on a 1950s CBS ranch in Sailboat Bend or a full curtain wall on a commercial storefront off Andrews Avenue. We’re an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines including, and PGT. We quote those lines side by side on paper so you see exactly what you’re buying before you sign anything.

Fort Lauderdale homeowners who call us tend to be people who have lived in their house twenty years or more. They remember the contractor who left them with a fogged seal and a door that binds in July. We hear that story often, and we’ve spent years in this community earning a different reputation through our Fort Lauderdale Door Installation work. Background-checked, uniformed technicians measure every opening twice. We register both manufacturer warranty layers in writing before the truck leaves the driveway. That’s The Keystone Standard, and it’s on every job we run in Fort Lauderdale.

Our crews serve Fort Lauderdale directly from our South Florida metro office, so we’re not routing a truck from Tampa or Orlando. A live person answers the phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No voicemail tree. No callback form. When you call about a custom window or door, you talk to someone who knows this market.

Our Custom Windows & Doors Services in Fort Lauderdale

Custom Shape Windows

Fort Lauderdale’s older neighborhoods are full of homes that were not built on standard rough openings. Victoria Park bungalows from the 1940s, CBS ranches from the 1960s in Coral Ridge, and mid-century homes throughout the canals all have quirks. Arched transoms, radius corners, trapezoid gable windows, half-rounds over entry doors. Big-box replacements will not fit these openings without framing surgery. We cut and order true custom shape windows to the opening, not the other way around. On a recent job in Broadview Park we matched a 1958 CBS ranch’s original arch-top window geometry exactly, because the homeowner wanted the same sightlines, just impact-rated glass.

Commercial Storefront Glazing

Fort Lauderdale’s commercial corridors along Federal Highway, Las Olas Boulevard, and Broward Boulevard run a lot of old storefront systems with single-pane glass and tired aluminum. The HVHZ code applies to commercial glazing too, not just homes. We replace commercial storefronts with impact-rated systems that carry the required product approvals, and we schedule around your business hours so you are not shutting down for a week. Most commercial storefront replacements we scope in Fort Lauderdale fall in the $85 to $145 per square foot range installed, depending on system type and glass package.

Curtain Wall Systems

Multistory commercial and mixed-use buildings in Fort Lauderdale need curtain wall systems engineered for wind loads that inland Florida codes never contemplate. The brackish humidity off the canals also punishes poorly specified aluminum. We specify marine-grade finishes and stainless hardware on every curtain wall we quote in this city, because we have seen what five years of canal air does to standard commercial hardware. Engineering, fabrication, and install typically land between $110 and $190 per square foot on Fort Lauderdale curtain wall work.

Architectural Grilles & SDLs

Simulated Divided Lites, or SDLs, give a custom window the divided-light look of a historic home without the energy penalty of true divided lites. That matters in Fort Lauderdale, where the humidity cycling has already punished the original wood windows on homes in Sailboat Bend and Riverside Park. We install architectural grilles and SDLs on impact-rated frames so you keep the character of a 1940s cottage and pass a wind-mitigation inspection. Grilles and SDL packages add roughly $18 to $32 per square foot to the window cost in this market.

Oversized Glass Panels

Fort Lauderdale’s canal-front homes and modern new construction on deep lots often call for glass panels that are eight, ten, sometimes twelve feet tall. These are not stock items. Oversized glass panels require engineering for HVHZ wind loads, specialized hauling, and often a crane or lift on site. We scope the haul route before quoting, because an unpaved driveway on an acreage lot changes the delivery plan. Installed cost for oversized impact-rated glass panels in Fort Lauderdale generally runs $130 to $260 per square foot depending on panel size, glass package, and access.

Trusted Brands We Service in Fort Lauderdale

We are an authorized installer for, PGT, among more than a dozen manufacturer lines. That matters when a homeowner in Fort Lauderdale needs a warranty registration that a big-box store will not file correctly. We register both warranty layers in writing, with durations stated, before we leave the job site. Our Fort Lauderdale customers also get access to manufacturer service parts that take weeks if you order them yourself. We keep common hardware and weatherstripping in inventory for the lines we carry, which shortens repair lead times significantly in this market.

Common Custom Windows & Doors Problems We See in Fort Lauderdale Homes

• Canal-corrosion on “new” aluminum frames. We regularly replace aluminum windows on canal-front streets in Las Olas Isles and Rio Vista that were installed less than seven years ago. Standard aluminum without marine-grade finish pits and fails fast in brackish humidity. We specify marine-grade finishes and stainless hardware on every canal-adjacent job.
• Original jalousie windows on 1950s-1970s CBS ranches. Thousands of Fort Lauderdale homes still have the original louvered windows. These provide zero hurricane protection and cannot be retrofitted to meet HVHZ code. Replacement requires true custom sizing because the rough openings were not built to any modern standard.
• Non-standard rough openings on older wood-frame bungalows. Victoria Park, Sailboat Bend, and Colee Hammock have wood-frame homes from the 1920s-1940s. The rough openings are rarely square and the wood bucks are often rotted from decades of humidity. We reframe and square these openings before glass ever arrives.
• County permit surprises on unincorporated acreage lots. Fort Lauderdale proper has city permitting. But unincorporated Broward County lots just outside the city limits, including parts of Broadview Park, run through county processes with septic and well setback reviews. Contractors who assume Fort Lauderdale city rules apply get delayed and surprised. We do not.

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We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Lauderdale

Our crews cover Pompano Beach, Hollywood, Coconut Creek, and Margate from the same South Florida metro office that serves Custom Windows & Doors in Fort Lauderdale. If you’re on the edge of any of those cities or in unincorporated Broward County between them, you’re still in our service area. Call (863) 591-8673 and we will confirm coverage for your street before we schedule a measurement visit.

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What Fort Lauderdale Acreage Projects Teach Us That City Jobs Never Do

Most window and door companies in Broward County quote acreage lots the same way they quote a Victoria Park bungalow, and that’s where the problems start. A custom window or door project on a canal-adjacent, unincorporated lot outside Fort Lauderdale city limits runs through a different permitting path than a house inside city boundaries. Fort Lauderdale has its own building department handling permits for homes inside city limits. Unincorporated Broward County acreage lots run through county permitting, and county reviewers check septic and well setbacks that city inspectors never see. That means a new oversized window on the wrong side of an acreage home can conflict with the 75-foot drain field setback and stall the permit. We check that before we quote, because we’ve seen the delays it causes when nobody does.

We recently completed a Custom Windows & Doors job on a 1958 CBS ranch in the unincorporated Broadview Park neighborhood, where the owner needed replacement impact-rated windows on a home served by a well and septic system. Our crew had to verify the new rough openings would not encroach on the required 75-foot septic drain field setback, and we coordinated with Broward County for a single-family residence permit because the property sits outside Fort Lauderdale city limits. We specified corrosion-resistant stainless steel hardware and marine-grade aluminum frames from Andersen, knowing the brackish canal just two blocks away would pit standard hardware within five years. The owner had already been burned once, by a contractor who quoted city prices and then disappeared when the county permit review flagged the setbacks. We did not disappear. The windows are in, the permit passed, and both warranty layers were registered in writing before our truck pulled off the lot.

Long hauls and crane access change the pricing on acreage lots too. An oversized glass panel that fits fine on a truck in an industrial park still has to travel down an unpaved driveway and past grading changes before it ever sees the opening. We scope the delivery route in advance, because a cracked panel on a dirt drive is a week of delay and an argument nobody needs. If your acreage lot has a long driveway, soft ground, or limited swing for a crane, tell us on the first call so we can plan for it. Call (863) 591-8673 for a free estimate on your Fort Lauderdale custom windows and doors project.

Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Fort Lauderdale since founding the company on a glazier’s rule: if the pane is not true, the job is not done.