Hurricane impact doors for every entrance.

Impact doors are the part of a hurricane-hardening project homeowners forget — and the part a storm tests hardest. Every exterior door is a large opening in your wall, and during a hurricane it faces the same wind pressure and the same wind-borne debris as your windows. If a door blows in, the wind doesn’t just come inside; the sudden pressure spike can push a roof off from below. That’s why we treat impact doors as core protection, not an upsell — entry doors, French doors, and sliding glass doors all built to the same storm standard as the rest of your home.

A true impact door is an engineered system, tested and approved as a complete unit: the laminated glass, the frame, the hinges, and the locking hardware together. Swapping in tougher glass alone does not make a door hurricane-rated. In Palm Beach County, the assembly has to carry a valid Florida Product Approval (FL#) for our wind zone — products with a Miami-Dade NOA qualify too, but they are not required here. We show you the approval paperwork for every unit we install.

Shopping for impact doors gets easier once you know what actually does the work. Four things matter more than the brochure photos:

• Laminated impact glass. Two panes bonded to a tough PVB or SGP interlayer. The glass can crack under a large-missile hit, but the panel stays in the opening and keeps wind and water out.
• A reinforced, anchored frame. The frame is fastened deep into the structural opening so storm pressure can’t peel the door off the wall. On a door, the frame and threshold do as much work as the glass.
• Multi-point locking hardware. Instead of one deadbolt, the door bolts into the frame at several points along the edge — the difference between a door that holds and one that blows in.
• A tested design-pressure (DP) rating. The whole unit is rated for the positive and negative wind loads it has to survive. We match the DP rating to your home’s exposure, not to whatever is cheapest on the shelf.

Door style changes the engineering, too. A sliding glass door carries the most glass, so its rollers, interlocks, and frame have to be the stoutest on the house. French doors live or die by the astragal — the reinforced center post the two panels lock into. A single entry door is the simplest to harden but the one a burglar reaches first, so its lock and frame matter as much as the storm rating. Our estimator walks every opening with you and recommends the right style for each — covered in depth on the sliding glass, entry, and French door pages.