Upgrading Your Florida Home With Impact Doors for Hurricane-Prone Areas

Florida is a peninsula of 140 miles across the widest central point. This means that the entire land area of Florida is subject to hurricanes. A hurricane can travel several hundred miles inland and stir up in the Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico, placing both coasts at risk. Every home in Florida is within a potential hurricane path. Hurricane damage can occur inland and along either coast due to their traveling capabilities. Recent storms that have devastated Florida and North Carolina have shown plenty of evidence of these increasing risk factors as storms become more frequent. Protective measures like impact doors are critical in hurricane-prone areas, essentially the entire Florida peninsula.

Impact Doors for Florida Homes

In 2001, Florida passed a new building code requiring all new homes within 1 mile of the coast to be built with impact windows. As risk increases, all Florida homes must apply this building code.

Adding impact-resistant glass sealed into sturdy window frames enhances safety during storms. However, Floridians build more than windows out of glass. Impact doors also play an essential role in protecting your home from the elements of hurricanes and other severe storms.

Impact-resistant doors can withstand high-speed winds and flying debris due to storms. This is especially important for glass entry and patio doors, which should be built durably with impact glass. Impact doors also protect from intruders, as they are tough to damage or break. This added security is equally valuable, considering many homes are empty for a few days or weeks after a hurricane evacuation.

Impact-Resistant Entry Doors, French Doors, and Sliding Doors

Many Florida homes have beautiful walls of windows and glass doors to match. After all, a sunroom wouldn't provide perfect views and seamless sunbathing if the doors were solid. But storm protection is crucial when you have a wall of windows in a hurricane-prone region. Your windows are likely already made of impact glass. Likewise, every door should be an impact door capable of handling a Category 5 hurricane to protect your home, possessions, and family.

The Glass Design of Impact Doors

What makes impact doors so strong? It's all in the design of the glass inside. Impact windows and doors have a unique layer of impact-resistant glass.

It has two panes of dense, shatter-resistant glass fused with a sheet of advanced polymer laminate. The laminate provides the glass with flexibility and tremendous resistance to impacts. It ensures that if a crack occurs, it only happens to the outside pane of glass, while the inside pane remains intact.

The Advantages of Impact Windows and Doors

In addition to safety and security during a storm, Florida homes with impact windows and doors enjoy other advantages. The impact windows and doors improve your home's energy efficiency, UV protection, and indoor quiet.

Plenty of Light, No Shutters

The first enjoyable benefit of impact doors is that you no longer need storm shutters over your glass. As long as every window and door is made of impact glass, you can enjoy the sunshine and even stay home to watch the lesser storms in all their glory with plenty of light.

Energy Efficiency

The laminate layer within each pane of impact glass is also energy-efficient. It prevents temperature transfer between the panes of glass, so your AC doesn't need as much energy to keep your home temperature stable.

UV Protection

Many types of impact glass also block UV rays, so you can soak up the sun without UV damage to your home, possessions, or your eyes and skin.

Noise Reduction

Lastly, that advanced laminate sheet even reduces the noise that passes through your windows, so you can enjoy more peace at home.

Install Impact Doors for Hurricane-Prone Areas in Florida With ARMORVUE

ARMORVUE provides Florida homes with impact windows and doors rated for Category 5 hurricane protection and all-year comfort. ARMORVUE proudly holds an A+ rating with the BBB and is accredited by Miami-Dade and Energy Star. We provide our legendary Gold Standard throughout your replacement project and are fully licensed and insured.

Our combined 125 years of experience ensures top-quality service from permitting to inspection with no hidden fees. Contact us today to schedule an in-person estimate in the comfort of your home, or make an appointment to explore our showroom. You will enjoy a personalized, free, no-obligation consultation and estimate in either setting.