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Window and door work in Melrose Park has a cost profile shaped by one thing more than any other: salt air. A standard inland window spec will corrode here within a decade, and swapping it out twice costs far more than doing it right the first time. At Barrett & Sons Construction, we specify marine-grade hardware and hurricane-rated fasteners on every job between West Sunrise Boulevard and the Intracoastal because we’ve seen what the cheaper spec leaves behind. If you’re pricing window replacement or impact doors in the 33308 zip code, call Tom Barrett and his crew at (877) 610-1318 for a written estimate. We’ll tell you what the county inspector will require before the wall gets closed, not after.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Melrose Park’s Preferred Windows & Doors Company
Tom Barrett started this company in 1998 and put his name on the truck. His sons run the crews. When a Melrose Park homeowner calls about a rusted sliding door track or a window that won’t seal against wind-driven rain, the person who answers the phone understands the house they’re describing because we’ve worked on dozens of the same post-WWII concrete block homes in this neighborhood. That familiarity matters when the permit office is Broward County, not a city hall, and the inspector’s checklist includes hurricane strap details that a Fort Lauderdale-based crew might not anticipate.
Our reputation with Melrose Park customers comes from showing up on time, keeping every price change on paper, and pulling permits on every eligible job. We don’t ask you to take our word for it. Tom publishes his name, his address, and his license number, and you can look up any of it before you sign a contract. When a customer on a 1960s CBS home off West Sunrise Boulevard needed a new sliding glass door that faced the Intracoastal breeze, our crew specified a marine-grade anodized frame with stainless steel roller assemblies and hot-dip galvanized anchoring, then waited an extra week for the Broward County inspector’s sign-off before closing the drywall. That’s the difference between a contractor who knows this exact block and one who doesn’t.
Our Windows & Doors Services in Melrose Park
We handle the full Windows & Doors scope for Melrose Park homes, from single window swaps to whole-house impact retrofits. The sub-services below are the ones we quote most often in the 33308 area, and all of them include written change orders before any scope change touches the job.
Window Installation
New window installation in Melrose Park means working with concrete block openings that were cut in the 1950s through 1970s, many before modern hurricane codes existed. We size fasteners for the higher uplift pressure near the Intracoastal, not the inland wind loads a generic installer might assume. Every installation gets a permit through Broward County and an inspection before trim work hides the rough-in.
Door Installation
Entry doors and exterior doors on Melrose Park’s CBS homes fail first where salt spray meets hardware: hinges, thresholds, and the bottom rail of the slab itself. We use stainless steel hinges and corrosion-resistant threshold screws as a matter of standard practice here, not an upgrade. The alternative is rust streaks on white frames within a few years and a door that no longer seats tight against the jamb.
Window Replacement
Window replacement in Melrose Park typically runs $4,500-$15,000 depending on the number of openings, the frame material, and whether you’re staying with standard glass or stepping up to impact-rated. Older homes here often have original single-pane aluminum windows, and once we pull the frame out, the rough-in frequently shows corroded anchor screws that need addressing before the new unit goes in. We inspect the opening and flag anything the county inspector will want corrected.
Impact Windows & Doors
Impact windows and doors are the heaviest single investment most Melrose Park homeowners make in their building envelope, and the county rules that govern them are strict. Every permitted replacement must meet current South Florida hurricane code, including anchor strap requirements that older concrete block homes were never built with. That triggers mandatory upgrades on many of the 1960s-era houses here, and we’ll tell you about those costs in the estimate, not after demolition starts. Budget $8,000-$25,000 for a typical impact window installation in this neighborhood.
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Trusted Brands We Service in Melrose Park
We carry Andersen and Marvin for windows and doors because those are names you can look up, not mystery brands off a van. Many Melrose Park customers ask about GAF as well when they’re coordinating a window and roof project, and we’re a GAF-certified installer, which helps when one trade hands off to the next on a whole-envelope job. We stock replacement hardware and weatherstripping locally for south Florida service calls, so if a roller assembly or hinge set goes bad after a storm, we’re not waiting on a freight shipment from up north.
Common Windows & Doors Problems We See in Melrose Park Homes
- Rust streaks on white vinyl frames. Salt air off the Intracoastal eats the zinc plating off standard window screws within a few years. The rust runs down the frame and loosens the rough-in around the jamb, and by then the screw has lost its grip on the concrete block.
- Sliding patio doors that bind and won’t seal. Original aluminum tracks on 1960s and 70s CBS homes pit from salt spray, and the rollers jam when the track surface roughens. Wind-driven rain finds the gap, and the homeowner finds water damage along the interior floor plate.
- Impact windows with fasteners sized for inland wind loads. Without hurricane-rated anchors, a window can blow out of the concrete opening under uplift pressure near the water. This is the single most common deficiency we correct on Melrose Park retrofits.
- Corroded hinge hardware on exterior doors. Standard steel hinges rust from the salt humidity even when the door itself looks fine. Once the hinge barrel corrodes, the door sags, the latch misses, and the weatherstrip gap widens.
Pricing for Windows & Doors in Melrose Park, FL
Window and door pricing in Melrose Park reflects the salt-air spec. A standard inland-grade install would quote lower, but you’d pay for it twice within ten years. The table below shows our current market ranges for the two jobs we quote most often in the 33308 area.
| Service | Typical Range in Melrose Park |
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| Impact Window Installation | $8,000-$25,000 |
| Window Replacement | $4,500-$15,000 |
What moves the number: the count of openings, whether the opening needs a new anchor system, the frame material, and whether the county inspector requires hurricane strap upgrades to the surrounding wall. Every estimate is free and line-itemed, and no price changes happen without a written change order first. Call (877) 610-1318 to schedule yours.
We Also Serve Cities Near Melrose Park
Our crews serve Melrose Park locally and also work throughout Melrose Park, Fort Lauderdale, Broadview Park, Davie, and Lauderhill. If you’re a few blocks over the county line, the same marine-grade hardware rules still apply to your windows and doors, and we quote them the same way we do on West Sunrise Boulevard.
Serving Melrose Park, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Melrose Park 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 - Windows & Doors in Melrose Park
Because the salt-laden air in Melrose Park, a few miles from the Intracoastal Waterway, corrodes zinc-plated steel fasteners within a few years, and a corroded anchor loses its grip on the concrete block opening. Fort Lauderdale’s barrier island sees similar salt exposure, but many contractors working inland of the Intracoastal in neighborhoods further west use standard fasteners because the air is drier. For a home near the water, we specify stainless steel or hot-dip galvanized anchors so the window stays engineered to hold under uplift pressure for decades. Not a place to save forty dollars. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk you through the difference.
Yes. In unincorporated Melrose Park, every window replacement runs through the Broward County Building Division, even when the replacement window fits the existing concrete block opening exactly. The county treats a replacement as a structural change to the building envelope, and the inspector checks the anchoring, the flashing, and the hurricane-rating of the new unit before closing the permit. The fee and the timeline follow the county’s schedule, not a city hall’s. If a contractor tells you the permit is optional, call us instead.
Melrose Park’s permits go through Broward County’s Building Division, which operates on a different review cadence and fee schedule than Oakland Park’s municipal building department. In practice, county permitting here tends to take a little longer because the jurisdiction is larger and the inspector’s routing covers a bigger geographic area. We build that county timeline into our schedule and we don’t promise a close-in date we can’t keep. If you’re comparing bids, ask each contractor which permitting agency they’re actually pulling from for the job address, not just whether they handle it.
For a typical 1960s concrete block home in Melrose Park, the upgrade from standard windows to impact windows usually adds about 25-40% to the window budget, depending on how many openings need new anchor systems and whether the county inspector requires hurricane strap upgrades to the surrounding wall. The older the home, the more likely those strap upgrades are baked into the final number. We quote them up front as line items, not as a surprise after demolition. Call (877) 610-1318 for a written estimate.
You have to meet current hurricane code for the opening you’re replacing, but if the surrounding wall has deficiencies, like missing anchor straps connecting the top plate to the concrete block, the county inspector can require those to be corrected before closing out the permit. That means a single sliding glass door replacement on a 1960s CBS home can trigger additional structural work you weren’t originally planning to pay for. We scope it all in the estimate and line-item it so you know exactly what the inspector will expect.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Melrose Park since 1998.