Impact Windows in Kendall - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Impact Windows Across Kendall

Impact window installation in Kendall typically runs $800 to $1,500 per window for standard openings, with whole-home packages landing between $8,000 and $25,000 depending on framing work, glass packages, and how many jalousie rebuilds the job requires. That’s the honest range, and it’s the same range we quote on our free in-home estimates. Kendall’s position inside Miami-Dade County’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone means every window we install carries a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and we’re happy to walk you through exactly what that means for your block. Call (863) 251-5864 and we’ll schedule a measure, walk the property, and hand you a written line-item quote before you spend a dime.

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We’ve spent over fifteen years working Kendall neighborhoods from West Kendall to The Crossings, Sunset to Country Walk, and we know this housing stock cold. The 1970s CBS homes off Kendall Drive, the slab-on-grade ranches near Westwood Lakes, the two-story colonials south of Killian Parkway. Each one tells us something about what’s behind the stucco before we ever pull a tape measure. Ed Winslow’s name is on the door, and on every job we do in Kendall.

Why Winslow Windows & Doors Is Kendall’s Preferred Impact Windows Company

Locally owned since 2011 and run by Ed Winslow, we’re the alternative to the national chains that hand you a ticket number and disappear for three weeks. When you call Winslow about Impact Windows, a live person answers. Not a call center in another state. Not a voicemail loop that promises a callback by Thursday. A person who knows Kendall, knows our schedule, and can tell you right then whether we have a crew in your zip code that same week.

Our Kendall customers see the same thing every time: a background-checked, uniformed technician arrives in a marked truck, introduces himself at the door, and gets to work. No subcontractor roulette. No mystery crew. We publish our address and license number because transparency is a foundation, not a marketing phrase. And we’ve built our reputation in Kendall the way contractors used to: one permitted job at a time, with the homeowner’s name on the permit and Ed’s word behind the install.

The 36500-Day Done Right Promise means exactly what it says. If the work isn’t done right, we make it right. That’s a century-long standard of accountability, and it applies to every impact window we install in Kendall, from a single replacement on a 1970s bungalow to a full-home package on a modern two-story off Miller Drive. We don’t rush, we don’t cut corners, and we don’t leave until the job passes Miami-Dade inspection.

Kendall homeowners also get our standing commitments: $40 off any repair over $200, a free second opinion on any written estimate you bring us, no trip charge anywhere inside our home county, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans. These aren’t promotions. They’re how we do business, every day, in Kendall.

Our Impact Windows Services in Kendall

Custom Millwork and Cabinetry for Impact Window Surrounds

Kendall’s older CBS homes rarely present a clean, square rough opening once the original window comes out. Frame rot, termite damage, settled block, and decades of DIY patches mean the interior trim around a new impact window often needs to be rebuilt, not just replaced. We handle that in-house with custom millwork matched to your existing baseboards, casing profiles, and door trim. On a Country Walk colonial or a Killian Palms rancher, the difference between a window that looks “replaced” and one that looks original is the millwork. We build it, mill it, and install it as part of the same job.

Architectural Glass and Specialty Finishes

Some Kendall homes call for more than a standard white vinyl frame. We install architectural impact glass with tinted low-E coatings, obscure or frosted interlayers for bathroom and side-yard privacy, and specialty frame finishes that hold up against Kendall’s salt-laden air far better than standard painted aluminum. If your home sits near Snapper Creek or backs up to a canal where reflected sunlight punishes south-facing glass, we’ll recommend the right tint package so you’re not fighting heat gain all summer. Every glass spec still carries a Miami-Dade NOA and meets HVHZ wind-load requirements for your specific opening.

Designer and Architect Coordination

When a Kendall homeowner is working with an architect on a remodel, addition, or full renovation, the window schedule is usually the first thing that goes wrong. Lead times get underestimated, rough openings get framed for the wrong unit, and the permit office kicks it back because the NOA doesn’t match the drawing. We sit down with your designer early, review the plans, and map every opening to a specific, NOA-approved unit with a written lead time. That way the framers frame to the actual window, not to a generic spec, and the permit sails through. We’ve coordinated dozens of Kendall remodels this way, and it saves weeks on the schedule.

Trusted Brands We Service in Kendall

We’re an authorized installer for eight premium manufacturers, and in Kendall we lean heavily on the ones built for this climate. ECO Window Systems and Mr-Glass produce impact-rated units that hold Miami-Dade NOAs across a wide range of configurations, which matters when Kendall’s permit office wants the product approval number printed on the plan. Therma-Tru and ViewLux round out our door and specialty glass lineup. Because we install these brands daily across Kendall, we keep the most common hardware, balances, and replacement sashes in stock locally. When a Kendall homeowner calls with a failed lock or a fogged panel on an impact window we installed, we don’t order parts from a warehouse in Tampa and make you wait. We pull it from the truck.

Common Impact Windows Problems We See in Kendall Homes

• Original jalousie windows that fail HVHZ the moment an inspector looks at them. The louvered glass crank units common in pre-1980s Kendall homes cannot be retrofitted to meet any Miami-Dade NOA impact standard. Every quote we write for these includes masonry infill and re-stucco, because the rough opening has to be rebuilt from scratch.
• Salt-air pitting and oxidation on non-treated aluminum frames. Kendall sits close enough to Biscayne Bay that prevailing easterlies push salt-laden humidity across the entire community. Within a decade, untreated aluminum sashes pit, corrode, and seize in their tracks. By the time we get the call, the window often won’t open at all.
• Threshold bypass on slab-on-grade homes after Kendall’s afternoon downpours. During the June-to-October season, Kendall gets a heavy thunderstorm nearly every afternoon. On flat, low-lying streets near Kendall Drive and Sunset, water ponds against door sills and window tracks, and original 1970s aluminum sliders leak at the corner welds. The first sign is usually stained drywall below a bedroom window.
• Wind-mitigation credits denied because the openings don’t match the paperwork. We regularly hear from Kendall homeowners who installed impact windows with another company, only to have their Citizens wind-mitigation inspection fail because the installed unit didn’t carry the right NOA for that specific opening. It’s avoidable, but it means the installer has to know Miami-Dade code, not just Florida code. We do.

Pricing for Impact Windows in Kendall, FL

What Impact Windows Costs in Kendall

We covered the line-item ranges above, but the cost question Kendall homeowners ask most often is “what moves the number?” Three things, mostly. First, the opening count: a 1970s three-bedroom CBS rancher has roughly eight to eleven openings, while a newer two-story might have eighteen or more. Second, glass packages: tinted low-E, obscure privacy glass, and noise-reduction interlayers all add to the unit cost, though many Kendall buyers recover that through lower AC bills and quieter bedrooms. Third, the frame: aluminum impact frames cost less than premium lines with architectural finishes, but not every Kendall home is a good candidate for budget aluminum when salt-air corrosion is a known failure mode near the coast.

Every Winslow estimate in Kendall includes a free in-home measure and a written, line-item quote. No deposit before you see the numbers, and the price is fixed the moment you sign. We order your windows that same week and keep you posted on the fabrication schedule. Custom pieces from our premium brands typically run four to six weeks from order to install day; once the units arrive in our Kendall yard, install is usually a single day for a standard opening, and a few days for a full-home swap.

Florida Pays You Back

Kendall homeowners are sitting in the strongest incentive market in the country for impact window replacement. The My Safe Florida Home program offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, and impact windows are squarely inside that bucket. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from state sales tax, which shaves a meaningful percentage off the total invoice on a big job. On the federal side, the 25C energy credit returns 30% of the product cost, up to $600 per year, on qualifying energy-efficient units. And after the install is done and a wind-mitigation inspector signs off (typically $75 to $150 for the inspection), most Kendall homeowners see their windstorm premium drop by roughly 25% on the wind portion through carriers like Citizens. We can’t guarantee the final numbers, because programs and insurance carriers set those. But we’ll point you to the paperwork, and the installed units will carry the NOAs and product approvals the inspectors look for.

We Also Serve Cities Near Kendall

While this page is for Impact Windows in Kendall, our crews regularly work surrounding communities the same week. Westchester, Miami, Coral Gables, and South Miami are all within our normal service radius. If you’re in one of those areas and need impact windows, doors, or roofing, call (863) 251-5864 and we’ll tell you straight when we can get there.

FAQs - Impact Windows in Kendall

Jalousie Windows and the Kendall Replacement You Can’t Skip

If there’s one thing that separates Kendall from every other South Florida market we work, it’s the jalousie problem. Pre-1980s Kendall subdivisions went up fast, with crank-style louvered glass windows that made sense in a pre-air-conditioning era when cross-breezes did the cooling. Those days are gone. The louvers leak, the crank mechanisms seize from salt-laden Biscayne Bay air and daily downpour humidity, and no manufacturer has ever produced a Miami-Dade NOA for a jalousie retrofit. That means every one of those openings must be completely rebuilt: pull the crank louvers, fill the rough opening with CMU, re-stucco the exterior, then set a new NOA-approved impact window in the rebuilt hole. We include that masonry infill and re-stucco as a line item in every Kendall jalousie replacement quote, because hiding it until the job starts would be dishonest and the homeowner would find out anyway when the permit office asks for the NOA on the new rough opening. Contractors in newer suburbs never deal with this. In Kendall, it’s half our work.

In Westwood Lakes, we rebuilt a 1970s jalousie opening on a slab-on-grade CBS home. Our techs pulled the crank louvers, filled the rough opening with CMU, re-stuccoed the exterior to match the existing texture, and set a Miami-Dade NOA-approved PGT WinGuard casement with insulated low-E glass and a large-missile interlayer. The homeowner cut AC runtime noticeably, and the job was permitted without issue because every new unit carried a Florida Product Approval for HVHZ wind loads. That’s how we approach every Kendall job: the permit office knows what it wants, and so do we.

If you’re considering impact windows in Kendall and you’ve still got original louvers, know this: a full replacement is not an upgrade option, it’s the only legal permitted path. The good news is that a whole-home jalousie removal, properly done, transforms the house. Sealed openings, quieter rooms, lower humidity, and wind-mitigation credits that finally apply. We’ve done it dozens of times across Kendall, from Kendall Lakes to Crossings to Sabal Chase. Call (863) 251-5864 and Ed will answer. Free estimate, written line-item quote, and a price that’s fixed before we order a single unit.

Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving Kendall since 2011.