New Garage Door Installation
Doors with a current Miami-Dade product approval, installed to the anchoring and bracing that approval specifies.
A replacement garage door in Miami-Dade County is a code decision as much as a style decision. Miami-Dade and Broward make up the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, and the county's Product Control Section accepts doors through a Notice of Acceptance. Each notice names the exact door, its design pressure in pounds per square foot and its missile impact rating, and the door must carry a permanent label with the approval number on the side track, bottom angle or inner panel.
We help you choose among listed doors for the house: steel or insulated, raised-panel, flush, carriage-house or full-view, with the windows and color that suit the architecture. We install the complete system, with new tracks that belong to that door, springs sized to its weight and the anchors and reinforcement named in the approval documents. Before ordering we confirm with your city or county building department whether a permit is needed.
When Replacement Beats Repair
- Sections cracking, delaminating or rusting through
- A door that predates the current wind-load rules
- Repairs piling up on a door at the end of its life
- A garage that is an oven by mid-morning in summer
- A door that no longer suits the house after a renovation
- Bent tracks and sections that no longer fit together
🌊 The Biscayne Bay Factor
Wind is the design driver. After Hurricane Andrew in 1992, post-disaster studies noted that many garage doors had been forced open by the wind, which let pressure build inside homes, DASMA reports. A door is pushed in and pulled out, so both a positive and a negative design pressure rating matter, and DASMA says the attachment of track and jamb to the building is as critical as the door. The listed rating, the label, the anchors and the permit all have to line up, so we install to the approval and not to a catalog picture.
How a Visit Goes
Measure and match
We measure the opening, headroom and side room, note the existing opener, and check the wind and permit requirements for your address.
Choose a listed door, one exact quote
You pick from approved doors and approve one price on site before any order is placed.
Install to the approval
New tracks, springs sized to the door's weight, and the anchors and reinforcement named in the approval documents.
Balance, label and test
We balance the door, confirm the approval label is in place, and test travel and reversal with you watching.