Impact Windows in West Palm Beach, FL

West Palm Beach is the county seat and the most architecturally varied city we serve. In a few square miles it runs from 1920s Mediterranean Revival and frame-vernacular bungalows in El Cid, Flamingo Park, and Grandview Heights, through post-war CBS ranches in the central neighborhoods, to the glass-walled condo towers rising along Flagler Drive and the Lake Worth Lagoon downtown. Unlike the barrier-island Town of Palm Beach across the water, West Palm fronts the Intracoastal rather than the open Atlantic — yet its lagoon-side high-rises and waterfront blocks still sit in the county’s stiffer wind-exposure categories, while the inland west side is comparatively sheltered. Impact windows in West Palm Beach can mean a historic-district divided-light sash a preservation board has to bless, or a large-missile-rated unit craned up to a downtown tower — and we spec each to its own exposure and review.

From Clematis Street and Rosemary Square to the Norton Museum of Art, Antique Row on South Dixie Highway, and the Currie Park and Flagler Drive waterfronts, West Palm packs an enormous range of housing into a compact grid. The historic-district homes of El Cid and Old Northwood often still wear their original wood double-hung and casement sashes — handsome, but single-pane, leaky, and no match for wind-borne debris. The central neighborhoods are full of 1950s and ’60s ranches on jalousie and awning glass, while the downtown and Northwood Shores shoreline keeps going vertical. Laminated impact glass answers all three: it can be ordered in profiles and muntin patterns that satisfy a Certificate of Appropriateness in the historic districts, it quiets the trains, traffic, and nightlife of a busy downtown, and on the lagoon-front towers it seals units against wind-driven rain and the salt haze that drifts off the water.