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Fast, Reliable Sliding & Patio Doors Across Boca Raton
If you live in Boca Raton and your sliding glass door sticks in July or you feel a draft every time the wind comes off the Atlantic, you’re not alone. The original Arvida-built homes from the 1970s and 80s are full of single-track aluminum sliders that were never designed for 150 mph wind-load requirements. We replace them with impact-rated glass that meets Palm Beach County code and satisfies what your insurance carrier is now demanding. TruePane Windows & Doors has crews working in Boca Raton every week. Call (888) 635-0804 for a free in-home measure and a written quote on paper, side by side, so you can see exactly what you’re buying.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Boca Raton’s Preferred Sliding & Patio Doors Company
We have spent years doing window and door work in South Florida, and Boca Raton has its own set of rules. It’s not just the salt air eating aluminum frames in 33496 and 33487. It’s the Architectural Review Committees in communities like Boca West, Broken Sound, Woodfield Country Club, and St. Andrews that have to approve frame color, glass tint, and grille pattern before the city will even look at a permit. Contractors who do not know this schedule the tear-out first and then leave your opening exposed for three to six weeks while the committee deliberates. We file the submittal packet with the HOA first, sequence the permit after approval, and our crew shows up with the exact product the committee signed off on. Dale Kessler founded this company on a simple rule: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That rule holds for every slider we install across Boca Raton.
Local knowledge matters here. We know that a bronze frame and a low-E tint gets approved faster in Woodfield than a clear anodized finish. We know the Palm Beach County permitting office wants Florida Product Approval numbers for every opening. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, and they measure every opening twice. We register both manufacturer warranty layers in writing before the truck leaves your driveway. That is The Keystone Standard, and it applies to every job we do in Boca Raton neighborhoods from Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club to the lakes off Yamato Road.
When you call, a live person answers. Not a voicemail tree, not a callback form. Day or night, seven days a week. That matters when you are a homeowner in 33428 trying to figure out whether a fogged slider panel is a repair or a replacement, and you want a straight answer now.
Our Sliding & Patio Doors Services in Boca Raton
Patio Doors
A patio door in Boca Raton does more work than a patio door in most of the country. It handles daily humidity, direct sun from the east, and salt carried on the breeze off the Atlantic. Our Sliding & Patio Doors team installs doors that open and close the same in January as they do in August. For homes east of Dixie Highway in 33487, we often recommend corrosion-resistant hardware because the salt exposure there is measurably harsher than communities further west near the Turnpike.

Impact Sliding Glass Doors
Impact sliding glass doors are the single most requested upgrade in Boca Raton right now. The reason is simple: Citizens Property Insurance and private carriers are making impact-rated glazing a condition of continued coverage for coastal Palm Beach County. A proper impact slider uses laminated glass that meets large-missile requirements, tested to design pressures that match your specific opening. We supply and install units from more than a dozen manufacturer lines. You get side-by-side quotes on paper so you can compare glass packages and frame materials without guessing.

Sliding Glass Door Replacement
Most of the original sliding glass doors in Boca Raton’s Arvida neighborhoods were built between 1970 and 1985. That means the frames are now 40 to 50 years old, and the salt air has been working on the jambs and roller tracks the entire time. We pull the old single-track unit out, inspect the rough opening for rot or water damage, and set the new door plumb and level. We do not install a new slider into an opening that is out of square and call it done. In communities like Woodfield Country Club, we have completed these swaps in a single day once the HOA approval and permit are in hand.

Impact French Patio Doors
Impact French patio doors give you the look of traditional French doors with the wind-load performance of a rated impact product. For Boca Raton homes with Mediterranean styling, this is often the path that gets through Architectural Review with the least friction. The key is matching the frame profile and color to what the committee expects. We handle the submittal, the permit, and the install, and we use manufacturers like PGT and CGI that carry Florida Product Approval certifications for the exact configurations we quote.

What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Boca Raton
We are an authorized installer for more than a dozen manufacturer lines, including, PGT, CGI, ViewLux, ECO Window Systems, and Therma-Tru. That matters in Boca Raton because HOA committees often specify a particular glass tint or frame extrusion, and you need a contractor who can quote the exact product the committee will approve. We keep local stock of common parts for Boca Raton customers, which means we can often get a replacement roller assembly or lock set installed the same week rather than waiting on a part to ship from out of state.
Common Sliding & Patio Doors Problems We See in Boca Raton Homes
- Salt-corroded roller tracks and jambs. Atlantic salt air, especially in 33487 and neighborhoods east of Federal Highway, corrodes the aluminum channel the rollers ride on. The door gets harder to slide each year until the rollers bind completely.
- Single-pane glass that fails modern wind code. Original Arvida sliders from 40 years ago do not meet Palm Beach County’s post-Hurricane Andrew large-missile requirements. Your insurance company knows this and may already be asking you about it.
- HOA-driven delays without proper sequencing. Contractors who do not work regularly in Boca Raton get sticker shock when the Architectural Review Committee adds 3 to 6 weeks. If they have already torn out your old door, your opening sits exposed to storm season.
- Fogged seals between glass panels. Many older Boca Raton sliders use single-pane or failed-seal insulated glass. That fog is condensation inside the glazing unit, which means the seal has failed and the insulating value is gone.
Pricing for Sliding & Patio Doors in Boca Raton, FL
A standard sliding patio door replacement in Boca Raton runs roughly $1,200 to $3,500 installed. Impact-rated sliding glass doors land between $2,800 and $6,500 per opening, depending on the size of the panel, the frame material, and the design pressures the specific house requires. Large four-panel or multi-slide configurations in high-wind exposures can push past $8,000 per opening. French patio door conversions run $3,000 to $7,500. These are line-item quotes, not round numbers pulled from a national average.
Several things move the price in Boca Raton. First, your wind zone: homes east of I-95 have higher design pressure requirements than homes in west Boca near the Turnpike. Second, the HOA itself: if the committee requires a specific bronze extrusion from PGT rather than a standard white frame, that is a real upcharge. Third, structural work: older Arvida homes sometimes have rough openings that need new headers or water-barrier upgrades once we open the wall. We give you written numbers on the first visit, and the price does not change unless we find something hidden and you approve it first.
Call (888) 635-0804 to schedule a free in-home measure and a written quote for sliding and patio doors in Boca Raton.
What Sliding & Patio Doors Costs in Boca Raton
Impact-rated windows in this market generally land between $800 and $1,500 per window installed. For sliding doors specifically, you are looking at $2,800 to $6,500 for a standard two-panel impact slider, $3,000 to $7,500 for impact French doors, and $2,500 to $5,000 for large or custom openings. Whole-home packages, where you replace every original window and slider in a 1980s Arvida house, typically range from $8,000 to $25,000 and up depending on opening count, glass package, and frame material. The more openings you do at once, the lower the per-opening cost for labor, disposal, and setup.
What moves the number in Boca Raton? Your specific wind zone is first. A house on a canal off the Intracoastal in 33487 will need higher design pressures than a house in a gated community west of 441 in 33498. Floor height matters too, as a second-story opening in a two-story contemporary faces different pressures than a ground-floor slider. Frame material is a factor: aluminum, vinyl, and impact-rated aluminum each price differently. We give you the full breakdown. Free in-home measure, written quote, no phone calls chasing numbers later.
Florida Pays You Back
There are real incentives available for impact sliding glass doors in Palm Beach County, and we will point you to them without overselling what they cover. My Safe Florida Home has offered matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, including impact-rated windows and doors. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from state sales tax. On the federal side, the 25C energy credit covers 30% of product cost, up to $600 per year, on qualifying high-efficiency units. After a wind-mitigation inspection, which typically runs $75 to $150, many Boca Raton homeowners see a meaningful drop in the windstorm portion of their premium, often averaging around 25%. We cannot guarantee what your carrier or the state program will approve. But we will hand you the documentation you need, including Florida Product Approval numbers and Miami-Dade NOA listings where applicable, so your paperwork is ready when the inspector or the underwriter asks.
One comparison worth making: impact windows and doors versus hurricane shutters. Shutters only protect you if you are home to hang them, and in a mandatory evacuation for a Category 4 or 5 storm, you will not be there. Impact glass is always in place, always rated, and does not need a ladder on a summer afternoon. For a Boca Raton homeowner planning to stay in the house for the next twenty years, the question is usually not whether to do it. It is which openings to do first. We will help you sequence the project so the expense lands where it delivers the most protection and the biggest insurance benefit.
Navigating Boca Raton HOA Architectural Review
Here is the reality that separates a Boca Raton sliding door job from one in Delray Beach or Boynton Beach. In Boca Raton’s HOA-governed communities, the Architectural Review Committee approves your exterior door specifications before the city even issues a permit. Every committee has its own preferences. Boca West and St. Andrews have historically favored bronze or white frames with low-E, low-reflectivity glass. Woodfield Country Club tends to review tint level and grille pattern closely. Broken Sound often requests drawings that show sightlines from the street. Some committees want a sample of the frame extrusion attached to the submittal packet.
The timeline is real: 3 to 6 weeks of review is normal, and we have seen committees take longer on larger multi-slide door configurations. This is not a delay you negotiate away. The correct way to run the job is to file the submittal packet first, get the approval in writing, then submit the building permit application to the City of Boca Raton, then schedule the tear-out. We do this sequence on every HOA property. Our crews have never left a homeowner with a tarp over an empty opening while a committee debates whether the frame should be bronze or champagne.
In a Woodfield Country Club home, our crew replaced corroded single-track aluminum sliders with PGT impact-rated sliding glass doors after the HOA’s Architectural Review Committee approved a specific bronze frame and low-E tint. We coordinated the submittal packet with the homeowner, scheduled the tear-out to begin the week after permit issuance, and completed the full swap including Florida Product Approval documentation without leaving the opening exposed during the review window. That is how the job should run here. Not every house in Boca Raton has an HOA, but for those that do, the process is not optional. It is the law of the community, and we respect it.
We Also Serve Cities Near Boca Raton
Our crews work throughout southern Palm Beach County and northern Broward County. If you live in Boca Raton or a neighboring city like Delray Beach, Pompano Beach, Margate, or Boynton Beach, you get the same TruePane team, the same Done Right Promise, and the same live person on the phone. The HOA rules are different in each city, but the standard is the same.
Serving Boca Raton, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Boca Raton area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Sliding & Patio Doors in Boca Raton
Yes, in most gated communities around Boca Raton, including Boca West, Broken Sound, St. Andrews, and Woodfield Country Club, the Architectural Review Committee sets specific rules for frame color, glass tint, and grille pattern. You cannot install whatever you want and ask forgiveness later. The committee approves your submittal first, and if the installed product does not match the approval, you can be forced to replace it again. We file the submittal packet with the exact manufacturer specifications so the approval and the install match. Call (888) 635-0804 if you want help getting your HOA packet right the first time.
Architectural review adds 3 to 6 weeks on average, and sometimes longer for multi-slide or custom configurations. That does not include the time the City of Boca Raton takes to issue the building permit once the HOA letter is in hand. A contractor who ignores this and tears out your old door first is gambling with your house during hurricane season. We file the HOA submittal first, wait for written approval, then pull the permit, then schedule the install. The sequence is deliberate, and it protects you from an exposed opening and a stopped job. Call us at (888) 635-0804 and we will lay out a realistic timeline for your specific community.
In most cases, yes. Impact-rated sliding glass doors tested to Miami-Dade or Florida Product Approval standards meet the large-missile impact and cyclic wind-pressure criteria that Palm Beach County and most insurance carriers require for wind-mitigation credits. You will need documentation: the Florida Product Approval number for the exact configuration, the design pressure rating, and the signed wind-mitigation inspection from a qualified inspector. We register both manufacturer warranty layers and provide the Product Approval documentation for every impact door we install. The final word on coverage conditions always comes from your carrier or your agent, not from us. But when you call (888) 635-0804, we will help you understand what documentation to ask for and give you a written quote for the work.
Some are repairable and some are not. If the frame is square, the glass is intact, and the problem is a worn roller assembly or a failed lock, we can often fix it the same week. If the frame is corroded at the jamb, the glass is single-pane, or the slider is an original Arvida unit from the 1970s or 80s, repair is usually throwing good money after bad. Once the aluminum is compromised, no new roller will make the door slide properly. We will tell you which situation you have after looking at the door, and we will not sell you a replacement if a repair will hold. Call (888) 635-0804 to have a tech look at yours.
PGT, CGI, Andersen, Pella, Marvin, Eco Window Systems, and more than a dozen other lines we carry all produce impact-rated sliding glass doors with Florida Product Approval or Miami-Dade NOA listings for Palm Beach County’s wind zone. The right brand depends on the design pressure your specific opening requires, the frame color your HOA will approve, and the glass package you want. We quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper so you see the comparison in plain numbers, not sales talk. Call (888) 635-0804 for a free in-home measure and written quote in Boca Raton.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Boca Raton and South Florida since 2008.



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