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South Florida is where the install volume is, so it's where most of our published reviews live today. Central Florida and Tampa Bay are where the next homeowners reading this site need the most help — and where the verified reviews aren't there yet. If you've finished a project in either metro in the last 24 months, we'd like to feature it.
What makes a useful Central Florida review
- · HOA / ARB experience in Celebration, Lake Nona, Windermere, Reunion, Baldwin Park, Dr. Phillips
- · Lakefront installs on the Butler Chain, Lake Nona, Winter Park chain, Lake Conway
- · Pre-2002 Winter Park, College Park, Maitland, Belle Isle bungalow retrofits
- · What your insurer actually credited after the wind mit inspection
What makes a useful Tampa Bay review
- · Post-Helene / Milton 2024 rebuilds — barrier islands, surge-zone elevation work
- · South Tampa bungalow framing realities (Hyde Park, Palma Ceia, Davis Islands)
- · FishHawk, Westchase, Lakewood Ranch, Wiregrass HOA approvals
- · How underwriting and renewal pricing changed for you after the 2024 season
9 reviews
Accordion shutters held perfectly through a tropical storm — but the latches need attention
★★★★★Solid HVHZ-rated install on an older Coral Gables home. The product performs; the post-install service has been thinner than the sales pitch suggested.
1962 single-story CBS home, Coral Gables, 14 openings
Impact windows post-Ian: worth every dollar of a painful invoice
★★★★★After losing windows in Ian, we replaced the entire envelope. Eighteen months later it's the best home investment we've made.
2004 two-story coastal home, Naples, 22 openings
Motorized roll-downs on a canal home: premium price, premium peace of mind
★★★★★Expensive, but for a two-story canal home where I can't physically reach upstairs windows, this was the right call.
1998 two-story canal home, Las Olas Isles, 18 openings
Storm panels are not glamorous — but on a tight budget, they work
★★★★★If your budget is tight and you have help, storm panels are honest, code-compliant protection. Just understand the deployment reality.
1985 single-story ranch, Jupiter, 11 openings
Bahama shutters cleared the historic review board on the first try
★★★★★The right choice for a historic-district Mediterranean home where accordions or roll-downs would never have been approved.
1924 Mediterranean-revival home, Palm Beach historic district, 9 openings
Impact windows in new construction: the no-brainer install timing
★★★★★If you're building new in Florida, install impact glass at construction. The retrofit math never gets better than this.
New construction, Cape Coral SW, 19 openings
Impact glass on a Key Biscayne condo: the association made the decision easier
★★★★★When the association ran a building-wide impact glass program, opting in was the right call — pricing, permitting, and warranty all benefited from scale.
1997 oceanfront condo, Key Biscayne, 6 openings + sliders
Roll-downs under a banyan canopy: the only product that worked for our setup
★★★★★Heavy tree canopy meant accordion housings would have looked terrible and storm panels were a non-starter. Roll-downs were the right answer at an uncomfortable price.
1971 single-story ranch, Pinecrest, 12 openings
Accordion shutters in Homestead at a fair price — the boring success story
★★★★★Nothing fancy — just a clean, code-compliant accordion install at a price that made sense for a Homestead family home.
2003 single-story CBS, Homestead, 9 openings