Garage door repair in Palm Beach, FL.

Repair and installation across Palm Beach.

The Town of Palm Beach was incorporated on April 17, 1911, and the town calls it only the second recognized municipality in Palm Beach County. It sits on a barrier island 12.28 miles long and never wider than three-quarters of a mile, between the Lake Worth Lagoon and the Atlantic, and had 9,245 residents at the 2020 Census. Its housing is older than most of the county's: the Census Bureau's survey puts the median year built at 1970, and about one home in nine dates from 1939 or earlier.

We repair and replace garage doors across the island: broken torsion springs, frayed cables, worn rollers, bent tracks, opener repair and replacement, and new doors, including impact-rated doors for hurricane protection. You get the price before any work starts, and every spring we install comes with a 1-year parts and labor warranty.

Replacing a garage door in Palm Beach: what to know.

Permits: The town's Building Division (360 South County Road) lists garage doors as a residential alteration on its construction permit application. Its shutter, window and door guidelines ask for the door's product approval and wind-load calculations signed and sealed by a Florida licensed professional, based on a 170 mph wind speed and the most exposed category, D. Homes in an HOA need a letter from the association, and any exterior work on a condo building needs the condo's approval letter. We pull the permit and assemble the paperwork.

Design review: Every door replacement in Palm Beach gets design review. Under the town's approval matrix, an in-kind replacement (same design) is approved by staff, a replacement with a different design goes to the commission chair, and major facade changes that affect the architectural style go to the Architectural Commission (ARCOM), or to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for landmarked buildings. The submittal needs elevations, numbered photos and product sheets showing size, material, style, finish and window pattern, and we prepare it with you.

Landmarks: The town has over 328 landmark properties, sites and vistas. Its landmarks manual asks owners to avoid replacing historic doors for other than structural reasons and to use historically correct replicas when they do, so on a landmarked home we start by matching the original door.

Construction hours: The town limits construction hours by season. From November 1 to April 30, work runs 8:00am to 5:00pm on weekdays with no site noise before 9:00am, and there is no work on weekends, town holidays, the days before and after Thanksgiving, or from December 24 through January 1. From May 1 to October 31, weekdays run 7:30am to 5:30pm, and Saturdays allow quiet work from 9:00am to 5:00pm. We schedule around these rules and park on your property where we can, as the town asks.

Hurricane rules: Palm Beach County is a wind-borne debris region under the Florida Building Code. It is not in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, which covers only Miami-Dade and Broward. Replacement garage doors here need to be impact-rated or protected by approved shutters, with Florida Product Approval for your home's design pressure. More on hurricane-rated garage doors.

Salt air: No home in town is more than three-quarters of a mile from salt water, between the ocean and the lagoon. Galvanized or stainless-steel springs and hardware hold up better here than standard hardware.