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Replacing windows in Wellington means clearing two approvals before the first pane is ordered: Palm Beach County’s building permit and your community’s HOA architectural review board. We’ve done both enough times to file them without holding up the job. Our crews know the specific frame color and grid specs for Paddock Park, Versailles, the Polo Club, and most gated communities off South Shore Boulevard. Most window replacements in Wellington run from $900 to $1,800 per opening for impact-rated units, with whole-home packages starting near $8,000. Call (888) 635-0804 for a free in-home measure and a written line-item quote.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Wellington’s Preferred Window Replacement Company
We aren’t the cheapest bid you’ll get in Wellington, and we won’t pretend to be. We’re the call you make after a cheaper crew fogged a seal or set a frame out of true. Dale Kessler founded TruePane in 2008 on a rule he still keeps on the whiteboard: if the pane is not true, the job is not done. That’s the standard our Wellington customers hold us to, and it’s why they call us back for the second or third opening when the time comes.
A live person answers our phone 24/7. No voicemail tree, no callback form. When a Wellington homeowner calls about a failed lanai slider in the middle of July, they talk to someone who knows what they’re asking. 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 the driveway. That’s the Keystone Standard, and it’s not a marketing line. It’s our paperwork.
Our Window Replacement Services in Wellington
Full Frame Replacement
Full frame replacement pulls the old window down to the rough opening, including the jamb and casing. In Wellington’s 1980s and 1990s CBS homes, we often find corroded aluminum jambs hidden behind trim, especially on lanai-facing openings that take daily afternoon thunderstorm humidity. Full frame work lets us inspect and repair water damage, re-flash the opening, and set a new impact-rated unit square. It’s the right call when a twenty-year-old frame has started to seize or rot. And it’s necessary when HOA specs call for a different frame color or profile than the original.
Insert Window Replacement
Insert replacement, sometimes called pocket replacement, keeps the existing frame intact and sets a new insulated glass unit inside it. It can work well in Wellington when the frame is still structurally sound and the homeowner wants a quicker, less invasive install. But the frame has to be true. If the original opening is out of square by more than a quarter inch, an insert will never seal right, and you’ll feel the draft by the first windy afternoon. We measure and tell you honestly which route fits your house.
Vinyl Replacement Windows
Vinyl makes a lot of sense for Wellington homeowners who want corrosion resistance without repainting every few years. Unlike aluminum, vinyl frames won’t pit or chalk from daily humidity cycling. That matters here, because the inland heat and afternoon storms put real stress on frames. We source impact-rated vinyl lines and match the HOA’s approved color palette, including the white-frame specs common across Wellington’s gated communities. The fit is what matters most, and our crews cut and shim to the actual opening, not a stock size pulled off the truck.
Energy-Efficient Upgrade
Wellington’s cooling season runs long, and single-pane aluminum from the pre-2000 build waves leaks conditioned air every afternoon. An energy-efficient upgrade with low-E insulated glass and a properly flashed opening does two things here: drops the heat gain from the western afternoon sun and cuts the humidity infiltration that fogs seals and grows mildew at the sill. This is not a luxury upgrade in this climate. It’s a maintenance decision.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Wellington
We’re an authorized installer for PGT, CGI, ES Windows, Mr-Glass, and Therma-Tru. When a Wellington homeowner asks us to quote lines side by side on paper, that’s exactly what we do. You’ll see the product, the design pressure rating, and the price for each option before you commit. We keep common impact-resistant parts and hardware in local stock so warranty service doesn’t wait on a freight delivery. Visit our Window Replacement team page to see the full range of what we install.
Common Window Replacement Problems We See in Wellington Homes
- Corroded aluminum sills on lanai-facing openings. Daily thunderstorm humidity cycles wet the aluminum, pit the finish, and eventually eat through the sill. By the time a window sticks or a slider won’t close, the frame typically needs full replacement, not a sash swap.
- Fogged and delaminated insulated glass units (IGUs). Homes built before 2000 in the Polo Club, Versailles, and Paddock Park areas show failed seals on oversized sliders and French doors. Thermal stress plus humidity kills the seal, and the glass clouds from the inside.
- Leaking non-impact transoms over entryways. Decorative transoms from the pre-Hurricane Andrew era crack under wind-driven debris pressure during summer squalls. They leak air and water, and they don’t meet Florida Product Approval requirements.
- HOA-mandated frame color mismatches. When a homeowner replaces one window to match an HOA spec and leaves the rest, the elevations don’t match. We stage replacements so the visible street-facing openings are done together where the HOA requires uniformity.
Pricing for Window Replacement in Wellington, FL
A straightforward impact-rated insert window in Wellington typically runs $800 to $1,400 per opening installed. A full frame replacement with a PGT or CGI impact unit usually lands between $1,200 and $1,800. Large custom openings like lanai sliders or wide French door conversions run $2,500 to $5,000 each. Whole-home packages for a typical four-bedroom Wellington CBS home range from $8,000 to $25,000 depending on opening count, frame choice, and wind zone design pressures.
What moves the price here is the dual approval. Palm Beach County requires Florida Product Approval ratings on every impact unit. Your HOA may mandate a specific frame color, grid pattern, or mullion layout. Those custom specs mean the opening is no longer a stock size, and custom fabrication runs four to six weeks. It’s worth doing right the first time; a cheap inland-spec unit with the wrong corrosion treatment will cost you more within a decade when the frame fails and the HOA makes you match it again. We give you a written line-item quote before any work begins. Call (888) 635-0804 - estimates are free.
What Window Replacement Costs in Wellington
Impact windows in Wellington generally run $800 to $1,500 per window installed. Single-hung impact units run $900 to $1,800. Large or custom openings, like the oversized lanai sliders common in Palm Beach Polo Club or the carriage-house garage openings on equestrian estates along South Shore Boulevard, run $2,500 to $5,000. Whole-home packages start around $8,000 and go up from there depending on the number of openings, access, and how much full-frame work the inspection turns up.
The honest truth is that in Wellington, several things move the price beyond the glass. Opening count is the big one. Wind zone design pressures are next; Wellington sits 12 to 15 miles inland, in a slightly lower wind-speed zone than the barrier islands, but every unit still has to meet Florida Product Approval. Floor height matters on two-story homes. Frame material changes the number; vinyl costs less up front and won’t corrode, while aluminum costs more and needs marine-grade finish to survive here. The HOA and county approvals add time, not usually price, but the custom sizes they force add both. A free in-home measure and written quote is the only way to know your number. Call (888) 635-0804.
One comparison worth making up front: impact windows versus hurricane shutters. Shutters protect the glass only when someone is home to deploy them, and they do nothing for daily heat gain, drafts, or humidity infiltration. Impact windows work every day of the year whether you’re home or not, and they don’t have to be taken down, stored, or argued with in a storm warning. The installed price is higher, but the daily benefit is permanent. That’s why we tell Wellington homeowners to think of impact glass as a one-time building-system upgrade, not an add-on.
Florida Pays You Back
Wellington homeowners can stack a few programs to offset window replacement costs. My Safe Florida Home offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, including impact windows and doors. There’s also a Florida sales-tax exemption on impact-resistant windows and doors. On the federal side, the 25C energy credit returns up to 30% of product cost, capped at $600 per year, for qualifying energy-efficient units. After a wind-mitigation inspection, which typically costs $75 to $150, many carriers apply a windstorm-premium credit averaging around 25% on the windstorm portion of the policy. We don’t promise any rate or rebate; the programs and the carriers set the final numbers. We’ll show you the paperwork and let the math speak.
The Wellington Problem: Humidity, Aluminum, and the Dual Approval
Wellington’s gated communities require HOA architectural review board approval for every visible window change. Frame colors and grid patterns are often written into the community’s design standards, and they differ from what Palm Beach County’s unincorporated areas allow. A homeowner who wants to replace a white-frame aluminum slider might face an HOA that now mandates bronze frames, or a grid pattern that didn’t exist when the house was built. That means the county permit and the HOA sign-off have to agree before any glass is ordered. It’s a dual-approval bottleneck that doesn’t exist at the same scale in neighboring unincorporated areas, and it adds weeks to the front end of a typical Wellington replacement.
Then there’s the failure mode that’s uniquely aggressive here. Wellington’s 12 to 15 miles inland, which means slightly lower wind speeds than the coast but the same daily humidity cycle. Afternoon thunderstorms wet the aluminum frames, the sun bakes them dry, and the cycle repeats daily from May through October. That cycling corrodes the aluminum at the sill, seizes the sash, and kills the seal on the insulated glass unit. We’ve pulled fogged sliders off lanai walls in Paddock Park and found the jamb corroded through where the morning dew collected every single day for twenty years. Coastal homes get salt; Wellington homes get this daily wet-dry cycle, and it does the same job over time.
The takeaway for a Wellington homeowner is straightforward. Don’t specify the cheap inland-aluminum spec and expect it to survive. Use stainless or hot-dip galvanized hardware, marine-grade frame finishes, and sealed joints on every exterior opening. The coastal-spec version of the same job costs more, sometimes 15 to 20 percent more, but the cheap spec costs more within a decade when the frame corrodes, the HOA makes you match a spec you can no longer source, and the whole opening has to come out again. In this climate, the spec is the long-term price.
A Job We’ve Done More Than Once
On a 1990s CBS home in Paddock Park, our crew pulled a fogged aluminum-frame slider off the lanai and found the jamb corroded through from years of afternoon thunderstorm humidity. The homeowner had lived with the fogged glass for two years, assuming it was just cosmetic. It wasn’t. The frame was compromised, and the continued daily wet-dry cycling was working its way deeper into the wall opening. We replaced it with a PGT impact-rated casement and a full-frame retrofit that satisfied both the county’s Florida Product Approval and the HOA’s white-frame spec, then matched the remaining openings with new insulated glass units. The homeowner’s original concern was a foggy pane. The real job was keeping water out of the wall for the next thirty years. That’s the difference between a window swap and a window replacement.
We Also Serve Cities Near Wellington
TruePane crews work every week in Window Replacement in Wellington and the surrounding communities. Homeowners in Loxahatchee, Greenacres, Lake Worth, and West Palm Beach call the same number and get the same live person, the same written quote, and the same Done Right Promise. We schedule Wellington work alongside these nearby areas, which keeps our drive time short and our prices honest.
Serving Wellington, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Wellington 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 - Window Replacement in Wellington
Yes. Almost every gated or master-planned community in Wellington requires architectural review board approval before you replace visible windows or doors. The HOA sets the frame color, grid pattern, and sometimes the mullion layout. You’ll need their signed approval in hand before Palm Beach County will issue the permit. We can prepare the elevation drawings and specification sheet your HOA will ask for. Start the HOA process early; it adds two to four weeks to the front end of your project. Call (888) 635-0804 and we’ll walk you through the correct order of paperwork for your specific community.
Yes, impact protection is required under Palm Beach County’s building code for any new or replacement windows in Wellington, even though inland communities like Wellington sit in a slightly lower wind-speed zone than the barrier islands. Every replacement unit must carry a Florida Product Approval rating matched to the opening’s design pressure. That applies to small transom windows as much as to the big lanai sliders. We quote and install only code-compliant impact units, and we provide the Florida Product Approval documentation with every job. Call (888) 635-0804 for a free in-home measure and a code-compliant written quote.
The fogging is seal failure, and Wellington’s inland humidity cycle is brutal on seals. Afternoon thunderstorms wet the frames, the sun bakes them dry, and that daily thermal expansion and contraction fatigues the sealant around the insulated glass unit. Once the seal fails, humid air gets between the panes and condenses as fog. Homes built before 2000, which is the bulk of the original Wellington housing stock, are at peak failure age now. The fix is a new insulated glass unit or a full new window, not a glass cleaning. Call (888) 635-0804 and we’ll tell you if it’s a glass-only repair or a full replacement.
Sometimes the glass alone can be replaced, but in Wellington it depends on the frame. If the aluminum frame is still square, the sill isn’t corroded, and the original opening meets current code, we can often set a new insulated glass unit into the existing pocket. If the frame shows pitting, white corrosion at the sill, or has pulled out of true, a full frame replacement is the honest fix. We’ll tell you which route applies to your specific openings when we measure. Call (888) 635-0804 for a free assessment.
Most Wellington homeowners replacing single-pane aluminum windows with impact-rated low-E insulated glass see meaningful cooling savings during the summer months, often in the 15 to 25 percent range depending on the age of the old units, the home’s orientation, and how many windows face the western afternoon sun. The bigger comfort change is the humidity control; new, properly sealed openings don’t let the damp air in the way failed seals do. The federal 25C energy credit and the Florida sales-tax exemption help offset the product cost on qualifying units. Call (888) 635-0804 for a written quote that shows the full picture.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Wellington, FL with window and door craft since 2008.