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Impact window and door replacement in Plantation Mobile Home Park runs $850-$2,400 per opening depending on size, glass package, and whether the surrounding aluminum skin needs re-skinning. Most jobs finish same day, though HUD-compliant manufactured-home units often take a second visit because rough openings are non-standard and the aluminum exterior panels must be cut and re-set around each new frame. If you live in the park and you’re still holding onto single-pane jalousies or a louvered window with a seized track, call (954) 280-4413. We’ll measure the actual opening, quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper, and tell you exactly what the salt air has already done to your frames.
Why TruePane Windows & Doors Is Plantation Mobile Home Park’s Preferred Impact Windows & Doors Company
Manufactured housing is its own discipline. Most window crews in Broward County build to Florida Building Code dimensions and walk away confused when the rough opening comes up 2 inches narrow. We don’t. Dale Kessler founded TruePane in 2008 specifically because he kept seeing out-of-true installs and voided warranties on jobs where the contractor never understood HUD manufactured-housing standards. Our Custom Windows & Doors in Plantation Mobile Home Park team cuts and re-skins aluminum exterior panels on every mobile home replacement where the old jamb doesn’t match the new sash. We don’t caulk a gap and call it a day.
Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, and they measure every opening twice before ordering anything. When they’re done, both manufacturer warranty layers are registered in writing before the truck leaves your lot. That’s The Keystone Standard. If something isn’t right, the Done Right Promise means we come back and fix it, no paperwork fights. We answer the phone with a live person 24 hours a day, and when you call about a door that won’t seal or a window that fogs, you’re talking to someone who knows the difference between a 32-inch mobile home door and a 36-inch site-built unit.
We’ve done enough work in Plantation Mobile Home Park to know that the homes near 54th Avenue and the lots along the park’s northern boundary were built in different eras, with different window styles, and the corrosion patterns differ accordingly. An older jalousie frame that’s been eating salt air for fifteen years needs a different approach than a mid-2000s single-pane unit with a deteriorating weather seal. We quote what the opening actually requires, not what a generic price sheet says it should cost.
Our Impact Windows & Doors Services in Plantation Mobile Home Park
Hurricane Impact Windows
In a manufactured home community, impact glazing is not a luxury upgrade. It’s the difference between a window that holds during a storm and one that shatters with the first piece of wind-borne debris. Plantation Mobile Home Park sits squarely in a wind-borne debris region, and HUD standards require that any replacement window in manufactured housing meet Florida’s wind-load requirements for that specific structure type. We install fusion-welded, impact-rated vinyl and aluminum units sized to HUD rough openings, with laminated glass rated for the design pressure your unit’s wall section actually sees. Most residential impact windows in the park fall between $950 and $1,900 per opening, glazing included.
Impact Entry & French Doors
Mobile home entry doors in Plantation Mobile Home Park are almost always 32 inches wide, not the 36-inch slab you’d find in a site-built house. The door buck behind the aluminum skin is thin, and years of South Florida humidity have usually warped it. We order the correct 32-inch impact-rated slab, re-skin or patch the aluminum surround, and hang it so the door actually closes flush against the jamb in July when the humidity swells everything. Impact French doors on park units are less common but do exist on newer double-wides, and those run $2,100-$3,800 per pair depending on glazing and hardware. Every install gets flashing tape on every seam and a door sweep that can stand up to coastal moisture.
Impact Sliding Glass Doors
Sliding doors in older mobile homes are notorious for corroded tracks. The aluminum rollers pit, the track fills with salt-driven oxidation, and eventually the panel won’t slide without a two-handed shove. We replace the entire unit rather than patch a track that’s already started to fail, and we spec impact-rated laminated glass so the panel doesn’t become a wind sail in a hurricane. A typical Plantation Mobile Home Park Sliding & Patio Doors replacement runs $1,700-$3,200, including removal, track replacement, and re-flashing the sill. The price moves with the panel width; mobile home sliders often fall into the 60-inch to 72-inch range, which changes the glass cost materially.
Impact Garage Doors
Some units in Plantation Mobile Home Park have enclosed carports or small attached garages with lightweight panel doors that wouldn’t survive a serious storm. A wind-rated impact garage door here runs $1,400-$2,800, plus reinforcement of the existing track and hardware. More importantly, the mounting points on a manufactured home’s exterior wall need to be tied into the wall studs properly, or the first gust will peel the track right off the aluminum skin. We’ve seen that failure. We don’t repeat it.
Wind Mitigation & Code Compliance
Here’s the part that catches people off guard: every window and door replacement in Plantation Mobile Home Park falls under HUD Manufactured Housing construction standards, not the Florida Building Code. That’s a different compliance pathway entirely. It affects what you can install, what needs to be documented, and how the wind mitigation credit gets applied to your insurance. We handle the documentation so the credit is actually realized. If you’re upgrading windows partly to lower your wind premium, the paperwork is where most contractors in Plantation proper lose the thread. We don’t. Impact Windows & Doors in manufactured housing is a specialty, and it’s the kind of specialty that took Dale years in the glazing trade to build.
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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 Plantation Mobile Home Park
We’re an authorized installer for several manufacturer lines that build units suited to non-standard rough openings, including ES Windows for impact-rated aluminum, ViewLux for strong mid-range vinyl, and Andersen for homeowners who want a premium line with a longer documented warranty trail. We don’t push one brand. We quote two or three side by side on paper so you can see exactly what each line gives you in glass thickness, frame material, and warranty duration. For Plantation Mobile Home Park specifically, we keep a local stock of the common 32-inch door slabs, narrow-frame vinyl double-hungs, and HUD-compliant hardware so we’re not waiting on a freight order when your door won’t close.
Common Impact Windows & Doors Problems We See in Plantation Mobile Home Park Homes
- Salt-corroded jalousie frames. The original aluminum tracks on louvered windows pit and swell within a few years of coastal exposure. The sashes seize, the crank mechanisms strip, and the window becomes permanently open or permanently shut. By the time we see them, the only repair is full replacement with an impact-rated unit.
- Fogged single-pane glass and failed seals. The humidity load in the park is relentless. Older single-pane units with failing gaskets trap moisture between the pane and the frame, and once the seal goes, the glass fogs from the inside and never clears. Salt accelerates every stage of that failure.
- Warped 32-inch door bucks. Mobile home entry doors sit in thin aluminum bucks that absorb humidity and cycle through daily temperature swings. After a decade, the buck is usually out of square by an eighth to a quarter inch, which is why the door binds in summer. A new door slab doesn’t fix that. The buck has to be re-set or re-skinned.
- Wind-borne debris and non-impact glazing. Manufactured units don’t have the structural redundancy of site-built construction. A louvered window or single-pane glass pop during a storm exposes the entire dwelling envelope. Impact-rated glazing is the single biggest hardening improvement a park homeowner can make, full stop.
Pricing for Impact Windows & Doors in Plantation Mobile Home Park, FL
| Item | Typical Range in Plantation Mobile Home Park |
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| Impact window (mobile-home width, per opening) | $850-$1,900 |
| Impact entry door (32-inch HUD-compliant slab) | $1,300-$2,400 |
| Impact French door (pair, double-wide unit) | $2,100-$3,800 |
| Impact sliding glass door | $1,700-$3,200 |
| Impact garage door + hardware reinforcement | $1,400-$2,800 |
| Aluminum panel re-skin / buck repair (add-on) | $200-$600 per opening |
The line you’ll probably notice is the re-skin charge. In Plantation Mobile Home Park, the aluminum exterior panel surrounding the window or door almost always needs to be cut back and re-set because the new unit has a different jamb depth than the original. That’s not a site-built home problem. It’s a manufactured housing problem, and it’s why a quote from a contractor who only does stick-built work often comes in low and then climbs on day two. Our quotes include the re-skin if the opening needs it. Call (954) 280-4413 for a free written estimate, line by line, so you can see the whole job before we start.
We Also Serve Cities Near Plantation Mobile Home Park
Our crews run local routes from Miami through Broward into Palm Beach County, and Impact Windows & Doors in Plantation Mobile Home Park is the hub for our manufactured-housing work. We also serve Acacia Villas, Alafaya, Altamonte Springs, and Altoona, with the same live-answer phone line and the same Keystone Standard on every job. Dispatch is coordinated from our Miami office, but the trucks are local to the park’s streets.
Serving Plantation Mobile Home Park, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Plantation Mobile Home 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 - Impact Windows & Doors in Plantation Mobile Home Park
HUD approval is not required for a direct window replacement in an existing manufactured home, but the replacement unit must meet HUD Manufactured Housing construction standards, not the Florida Building Code. The unit also has to comply with Florida’s wind-load requirements for manufactured housing in a wind-borne debris region. Our team sources HUD-compliant units and handles the documentation. Call (954) 280-4413 and we’ll walk you through what your specific unit needs.
Manufactured housing manufacturers standardized on 32-inch entry door slabs decades ago to reduce wall framing weight and cost. Site-built homes use 36-inch slabs by code. If you order a standard impact door off a shelf, it won’t fit the rough opening in a Plantation Mobile Home Park unit without cutting into the wall frame and re-skinning the aluminum exterior panel. We order 32-inch slabs from manufacturers who stock them, which avoids the framing surgery and keeps the install clean. Call (954) 280-4413 for a free measurement and quote.
Generally not without substantial modification. Mobile home rough openings are narrower and shallower than site-built openings, and the wall construction is different: thin aluminum skin over wood or metal studs, not block or frame with a structural sill. A standard impact window is too deep and too wide. We source mobile-home-specific units sized to the actual opening, and we re-skin the surrounding aluminum panel where the jamb depth differs. Don’t let a contractor talk you into “making it work” with shims and caulk. That’s how you get a failed seal and a voided warranty. Call (954) 280-4413 and get the right unit the first time.
An insulated glass unit, or IGU, is two panes of glass sealed around a spacer with an insulating gas like argon between them. When the seal fails, humid air gets in, the glass fogs from the inside, and the insulating value is gone. In Plantation Mobile Home Park, the salt air and humidity attack those seals faster than they would inland, which means a generic IGU with a low-quality sealant will fog within a few years. We spec Low-E IGUs with marine-grade sealants and argon fill, and both manufacturer warranty layers get registered in writing before we leave. Call (954) 280-4413 for a quote on a sealed unit that actually stays sealed.
Wind mitigation for manufactured housing follows HUD standards plus Florida-specific wind-load requirements, which differ from the Florida Building Code used for site-built homes. The documentation matters as much as the glazing: the window must be impact-rated for the design pressure of your unit’s wall section, and the installation must be documented in a way your insurer recognizes. We prepare that paperwork as part of the install, not as an afterthought. Call (954) 280-4413 and ask us to review your current windows against what your wind mitigation inspection will require.
Get a Free Estimate for Impact Windows & Doors in Plantation Mobile Home Park
If the pane is not true, the job is not done. That’s the rule Dale Kessler keeps on the whiteboard, and it’s the reason we’ve been doing this work since 2008. When you call (954) 280-4413, a live person answers, and we’ll schedule a free measurement of your actual openings, not a guess from a satellite photo. You’ll get a written line-item quote, manufacturer comparisons on paper, and a straight answer about what the salt air has already done to your windows and doors. We serve Plantation Mobile Home Park with the same standard we’d want in our own mothers’ homes: measured twice, installed true, warrantied in writing.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Plantation Mobile Home Park and surrounding communities since 2008.
Six Reasons Homeowners Choose TruePane Windows & Doors
Impact systems engineered to design pressures up to +/-100, matched to your wind zone - your openings hold when the storm arrives.
Low-E insulated impact glass from our manufacturer lines commonly cuts monthly cooling bills 20-30%.
Laminated impact glass shuts out up to 40% of outside noise - traffic, neighbors, weather.
Monitoring services run $30-90 a month. Laminated impact glass resists forced entry around the clock, with no subscription.
Florida homeowners average around 25% savings on the windstorm portion of their policy after protecting every opening - some homes qualify for more.
A full impact package upgrades curb appeal, buyer confidence and appraised value in one project.