CGI Windows & Doors in Tequesta, FL

CGI Windows & Doors in Tequesta, FL | TruePane Windows & Doors

We provide independent CGI window and door service throughout Tequesta, from full-frame impact replacements to hardware rebuilds on older Estate units. One fact separates CGI work in this village from almost anywhere else in Palm Beach County: because Tequesta sits entirely inside the wind-borne debris region at design wind speeds over 160 mph, there is no code-compliant “non-impact” shortcut here. If a CGI window or door is going into a Tequesta home, it has to be the impact-rated version, with the product approval number verified before the first piece of trim comes off. Call (954) 280-4413 to schedule a free estimate.

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Our technicians work on CGI Estate and Estate Impact lines at the component level. We stock OEM sealed glass units for warranty-preserving repairs and marine-grade stainless hardware for the salt-air failures Tequesta throws at aluminum frames year after year. Learn more about our CGI sales & service or keep reading for what we see in this specific village.

Why Tequesta Residents Choose Us for CGI Service

Tequesta homeowners tend to know their houses. They have lived in them for twenty years, they know which wall takes the afternoon sun, and they know what a fogged seal looks like because they have watched one develop since 2019. That is the homeowner who calls us, and that is the homeowner we are built for. Dale Kessler founded TruePane in 2008 after years of watching out-of-true installs and voided warranties stack up along the South Florida coast, and the rule has not changed since: if the pane is not true, the job is not done.

We have spent years servicing and installing CGI windows and doors along the Treasure Coast and northern Palm Beach County. That means our crews can look at an Estate double-hung with a white powder line along the meeting rail and tell you in minutes whether it is a repairable finish issue or the start of structural delamination. It also means we know what the Loxahatchee estuary air does to CGI’s anodized frames, latch geometry, and roller assemblies, and we stock the parts that fail most often here. Serving Tequesta is not a route expansion for us. It is part of our Tequesta service area, the same one we have worked for years, with the same background-checked, uniformed technicians on every job.

Every job carries our Done Right Promise and The Keystone Standard. Both manufacturer warranty layers get registered in writing, with durations stated, before the truck leaves your driveway. No paperwork fights. No arguing. A live person answers our phone 24 hours a day, every day.

Common CGI Windows & Doors Problems We Solve in Tequesta

• White powdery oxidation on Estate double-hung interlock rails. The anodized aluminum on CGI Estate frames takes a beating in Tequesta’s tidal estuary air. Within five to seven years, we commonly see white powder forming along the interlock meeting rail, right where the weatherseal groove is machined. Once that oxidation compromises the seal groove, the unit starts leaking air and water around the meeting rail. Refinishing alone will not fix a weatherseal groove, so we replace the affected sashes or the full unit depending on the corrosion depth.
• Edge delamination at the glass-to-frame seal on pre-2005 Estate frames. CGI frames built to the older AAMA 2603 finish standard were never designed for Tequesta’s salt load. We see edge delamination on the jamb side of original Estate windows, especially on east-facing bedroom walls that take the brunt of afternoon squalls off the Intracostal. The telltale is wall staining below the window that appears only after heavy rain, even though the glass looks intact. A glass-only retrofit will not stop it because the failure is in the frame, not the sealed unit.
• Seized rollers on Estate Impact sliding glass doors. Salt corrosion is rough on the factory roller assemblies in CGI sliding glass doors. Once the rollers seize, the panels jump the track, the door binds, and an impact-rated opening is suddenly not functioning as a wind-borne debris barrier. We replace factory rollers with stainless steel upgrades and realign the panel. This is one repair where a few dollars of aftermarket hardware saves a several-thousand-dollar door.
• Clogged weep holes and internal sill rot on Estate picture windows. Tequesta sits between the Loxahatchee River and the Jupiter Inlet, so fine calcareous dust and salt particulate blow through the air constantly. Those particles clog the weep holes on fixed and picture windows, and once water can’t drain, it sits inside the sill track. On full-frame replacements where the rough opening was not properly sloped, that standing water rots the sill from the inside out. We see it on original-frame homes throughout the village.
• Jalousie-to-impact reframes that reveal hidden frame damage. This is the big one for Tequesta. Older CBS ranch homes built in the 1960s through the 1980s often still have original jalousie windows, and those louvered units are non-compliant under current Florida Building Code wind-borne debris rules. You cannot glaze a jalousie frame with impact glass. The entire wall section has to be demoed, reframed in the block, and rebuilt to accept impact-rated openings. We do this work regularly, including full-frame CGI Estate replacement packages.

CGI Service in Tequesta: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment

Here is the fact that changes how CGI windows and doors get serviced in Tequesta compared to almost any neighboring city. Tequesta is a geographically tiny village, roughly two square miles, sitting entirely along the Intracoastal Waterway and the Loxahatchee River estuary near the Jupiter Inlet. That means every residential parcel in the village, not just the waterfront lots, falls inside the wind-borne debris region at design wind speeds exceeding 160 mph. In larger Palm Beach County cities, inland neighborhoods can sometimes use non-impact products with shutters and still pass code. Tequesta has no inland zone. Every CGI window and door we touch here has to be an impact-rated, Miami-Dade or Florida Building Code approved product, and we verify the product approval number against the village’s permit portal before any trim comes off. Even a courtyard-facing wall gets no exception. That single fact drives more of our scope decisions in Tequesta than anything else, and it is something a generic CGI brochure will never tell you.

Salt air compounds the problem. The estuary and the inlet push corrosive air through the entire village, not just along Riverside Drive or the waterfront streets. Aluminum frames on 1970s-era homes oxidize fast, fasteners fail, and frame delamination makes glass-only retrofits impractical on many houses. Homeowners who hoped to save money by reusing existing frames often learn, with our crew in the driveway, that the frame is the failure point. We tell them plainly when a full-frame replacement is the only way to maintain the NOA and their wind mitigation credits.

CGI Models & Products We Service in Tequesta

Our crews work on the CGI Estate line at the component level. That includes Estate Collection single-hung windows, Estate Fixed & Picture windows, Estate Impact casement windows, and Estate Sliding Glass Doors. We know the latch geometries, the glass-to-frame sealants, and the rail profiles on each model family, because we have handled them in salt-air conditions across Tequesta and the Treasure Coast.

On the parts side, we take a hard position: OEM CGI sealed glass units and structural components where the product approval number and wind-load rating must be preserved, and marine-grade aftermarket hardware where salt-air durability matters more than the factory spec. That means stainless steel rollers, hinges, and keepers on sliding and casement units, not the standard assemblies that seize in this environment. We stock the failure-prone parts for fast Tequesta turnaround. When corrosion or pitting has advanced past the point where a repair makes sense, we say so and quote the replacement honestly.

CGI Service Pricing in Tequesta

FAQs - CGI Windows & Doors in Tequesta

Why do the original CGI Estate windows on my Tequesta home keep blowing the corner seals even though they are impact-rated?
Seal failure on Tequesta’s older Estate windows is almost always frame-related, not glass-related. The original frames, especially those built before CGI updated their finish standards, flex and delaminate under the combined stress of salt corrosion and 160+ mph design wind loads. The corner seal is the first place that stress shows. We replace the affected sealed units with OEM glass and, when the frame shows advanced corrosion, recommend the full-frame replacement before you spend money on glass that will fail again. Call (954) 280-4413 and we can inspect the units at no charge.

Can I reuse my old CGI Estate frames when swapping jalousies for impact windows in Tequesta?
No. The Texas-sized exception is when the existing frames are original 1970s or 1980s aluminum, which is most of the jalousie-era stock in Tequesta. Those frames cannot accept modern impact glazing and are not rated for current wind-borne debris requirements anyway. The entire wall section gets demolished, the block openings reframed, and new impact-rated CGI units installed. We handle the full scope, including the permit and inspection.

Which CGI Estate sliding glass door hardware holds up best in Tequesta’s salt air?
Marine-grade stainless steel rollers, hinges, and keepers consistently outlast the factory hardware. That is why we recommend, and stock, stainless aftermarket components for every CGI sliding door we service in Tequesta. The factory assemblies work fine in less corrosive environments, but the Loxahatchee estuary air is not a less corrosive environment.

How does the Tequesta permit process change a CGI window replacement compared to a nearby city like Jupiter Farms?
Tequesta’s permitting is stricter than some neighboring municipalities because the entire village sits inside the wind-borne debris zone. Jupiter Farms, by contrast, is inland enough that certain openings can use shutters instead of impact-rated products. In Tequesta, every replacement opening must be impact-rated and the product approval number gets verified against the village’s portal before installation starts. We pull the permits, we verify the NOAs, and we schedule the final wind mitigation inspection.

What is the telltale sign that my CGI Estate casement window in Tequesta has water intrusion behind the frame but no visible leak inside?
Look for a faint rust-colored streak or staining at the lower corner of the stucco on the exterior, directly below the hinge side of the casement. That staining means water is getting behind the frame at the jamb seal and running down the inside of the wall cavity before it ever shows up on the drywall. By the time you see it inside, the damage is already done. If you see exterior staining, call (954) 280-4413 and we will pull the interior trim to check the opening before it rots the rough framing.

Service Areas Near Tequesta

TruePane Windows & Doors serves Tequesta and the surrounding communities across northern Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. We work regularly in Jupiter, Jupiter Inlet Colony, Juno Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, and Hobe Sound, plus we provide CGI service in Treasure Island and CGI service in Umatilla for clients with properties in both regions. If you are not sure whether your home falls in our area, call (954) 280-4413 and ask.

Book Your CGI Service in Tequesta Today

If your CGI windows or doors are showing oxidation, seal failure, or track problems, or if you need jalousie walls rebuilt into impact-rated openings, call (954) 280-4413 to schedule a free estimate. A live person answers around the clock. Dale Kessler and our Tequesta crews will be there when we say we will.

Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Tequesta and northern Palm Beach County since 2008.