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Fast, Reliable Sliding Glass & Patio Doors Across West Hollywood
Sliding glass and patio door replacement in West Hollywood usually runs between $2,800 and $6,500 for a standard impact-rated unit installed, with custom or oversized openings in older concrete-block homes landing between $4,500 and $9,000. Most West Hollywood jobs take one full day once your door arrives from the manufacturer. If your original 1960s aluminum slider is binding, corroded, or flagged by your insurer, call Ed Winslow’s team at (844) 901-4551 and we’ll come measure it, price it, and replace it right.
We work throughout the 33021 corridor every week, from Taft Street down to Pembroke Road and everywhere between. Our Sliding Glass & Patio Doors crews know West Hollywood’s housing stock because we’ve been opening up these homes for over a decade. That local knowledge matters when your rough opening is 94 inches instead of the standard 96, or when your jamb has been eating salt air since Lyndon Johnson was president.
Why Winslow Windows & Doors Is West Hollywood’s Preferred Sliding Glass & Patio Doors Company
Ed Winslow put his name on this business in 2011, and he’s never hidden behind a call center or a ticket number since. West Hollywood homeowners call West Hollywood and get a live person, 24 hours a day. Not a voicemail loop. Not a next-business-day callback. That matters when a patio door panel jumps its track at 9 p.m. and your living room is suddenly open to Broward County.
We’re an authorized installer for PGT and CGI, the two impact-rated brands that dominate South Florida’s HVHZ market. Every technician who pulls up to a West Hollywood address is background-checked and in uniform, so you know exactly who’s at your door before you open it. And every job, from a simple roller replacement to a full custom slider install, falls under the Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we come back and make it right. Period.
Our published address, license number, and standing offers are all out in the open. No shell companies. No vague estimates. Just upfront pricing, free second opinions on written estimates, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans.
Our Sliding Glass & Patio Doors Services in West Hollywood
Impact-Rated Sliding Glass Door Replacement
The most common job we do in West Hollywood is pulling out an original 1960s aluminum slider and replacing it with a PGT or CGI impact-rated unit that carries a Miami-Dade NOA. These older doors are zero-rated openings under current HVHZ code. Your insurance company knows it. We install doors with large-missile ratings matched to your opening, so you pass wind mitigation inspections instead of failing them.

Sliding Door Repair & Track Restoration
Salt-laden air from the Atlantic and the Intracoastal gets into West Hollywood even though the ocean is miles away. Rollers seize, jambs corrode, panels bind or fall off track. We rebuild tracks, replace roller assemblies, and straighten sagging jambs. If a repair will cost more than a new door, Ed’s team tells you that upfront, not after we’ve already opened the wall. Remember: $40 off any repair over $200.

Patio Door Threshold & Waterproofing Repairs
Failed waterproofing under a patio door threshold in West Hollywood’s humidity doesn’t just look bad. It wicks moisture into the concrete slab, rots the sub-sill, and eventually damages your interior flooring. We pull the door, assess the water damage, rebuild the threshold with proper flashing, and set the new or rebuilt door so water stays outside where it belongs. If the damage extends above, ask us about Roof Repair in West Hollywood during the same visit.

Custom-Sized Slider Solutions for Non-Standard Openings
West Hollywood’s post-war CBS ranch homes almost never have standard rough openings. Original builders framed for jalousie and narrow aluminum sliders, not for modern impact units. When a stock door won’t fit, we don’t force it. We order custom-modified frames from PGT or CGI, install reinforced headers where needed, and make sure the finished opening carries the right design pressure for your wind zone. One of our most recurring jobs in the 33021 zip is replacing the louvered jalousie window beside a patio door with a matching West Hollywood Custom & Geometric Windows impact-rated unit, usually in the same permit.

What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees — you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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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 West Hollywood
Winslow is an authorized installer for PGT, CGI, CWS, and ES Windows, which means we’re factory-trained on the exact products we’re putting into your West Hollywood home. We keep local stock of common replacement parts, rollers, locks, and weatherstripping for these brands in our South Florida shop, which gets your repair done faster and keeps our pricing honest. No mystery parts. No generic hardware that fails in two years. We install what we’re trained and authorized to install, and we stand behind every unit with a transferable warranty covering materials, labor, and accidental glass breakage.
Common Sliding Glass & Patio Doors Problems We See in West Hollywood Homes
- Corroded jambs and seized rollers. Decades of salt-laden air degrade aluminum frames and hardware faster here than almost anywhere else in the country. Panels start binding, then jump track entirely.
- Failed threshold waterproofing. Broward County humidity is relentless. When patio door flashing fails, water wicks into the slab and rots the sub-sill. You’ll see it as a soft spot or discoloration in the flooring just inside the door.
- Zero-rated single-pane sliders flagged for insurance cancellation. Original post-war sliders crack under wind-borne debris pressure. Insurers now routinely cancel or non-renew policies over these openings, and West Hollywood sits entirely inside the HVHZ, so the standards are strictest in the country.
- Non-standard rough openings in concrete-block walls. 1950s-1970s CBS construction rarely used modern-standard framing. If your rough opening measures 94 3/8 inches instead of 96, a stock door won’t fit. Custom sizing is the only correct answer, and it’s one we handle regularly across West Hollywood.
Pricing for Sliding Glass & Patio Doors in West Hollywood, FL
A standard impact-rated sliding glass door replacement in West Hollywood typically runs $2,800 to $6,500 installed. Custom-sized units for older CBS homes land between $4,500 and $9,000, depending on opening dimensions, frame material, and design pressure requirements. If your job involves reframing a sagging header or rebuilding a rotted threshold, add $400 to $1,200. Simple repairs, like roller replacement or track rebuilds, usually run $150 to $450 before any discounts.
What actually moves the price in West Hollywood is your rough opening and your wind zone. Homes in the 33021 corridor almost always need custom or modified frames because original openings were never built to modern standards. That’s the honest truth. Call (844) 901-4551 for a free in-home measure and a written line-item quote. No change orders. No “we found something unexpected” markup. Ed’s name goes on every estimate.
What Sliding Glass & Patio Doors Costs in West Hollywood
Here’s the straight answer for West Hollywood’s market. Impact Garage Doors in West Hollywood and windows generally run $800 to $1,500 per window installed. Impact single-hung units range from $900 to $1,800. Large or custom openings, like a wide patio slider or multi-panel door, run $2,500 to $5,000. Whole-home packages across an average 3-bedroom CBS ranch in the 33021 zip typically land between $8,000 and $25,000 or more, depending on opening count and current framing condition.
Three things push prices in West Hollywood. First, opening count. A 1960s ranch might have six to ten openings, including the patio door and those old jalousie windows. Second, wind zone. Everything here is HVHZ, which means large-missile rated glass, no exceptions. Third, floor height and exposure. A second-story opening or one facing open water carries higher design pressures and therefore a higher product cost. We measure everything for free, in your home, and the written quote you get is the price you pay. Call (844) 901-4551 to schedule it.
Florida Pays You Back
The incentives in Florida stack, and most West Hollywood homeowners leave real money on the table by not using them. My Safe Florida Home offers matching grants up to $10,000 for qualifying wind-mitigation upgrades, including impact-rated doors and windows. Florida also exempts impact-resistant windows and doors from sales tax entirely. On top of that, the federal 25C energy credit can return 30% of product cost, up to $600 per year on qualifying units.
After installation, a wind mitigation inspection typically runs $75 to $150, and a passing report commonly cuts the windstorm portion of your premium by around 25%. The exact number is set by your carrier and the inspector’s findings, not by us, and no honest contractor should guarantee a premium figure. But the direction is consistent across West Hollywood: impact-rated openings lower your windstorm exposure, full stop.
One comparison worth making before you spend: impact windows and doors versus hanging hurricane shutters. Shutters are cheaper upfront. But they require someone to hang them before every storm, they do nothing for UV and humidity the other 360 days a year, and insurance discounts for shutters are smaller than for permanently installed impact-rated openings. If you plan to stay in West Hollywood, impact glass wins on every metric that matters.
The West Hollywood Problem No One Mentions: Code Triggers When Walls Open
Here’s what opening up an older West Hollywood home actually turns up, and it’s the single biggest reason a door replacement quote moves after work begins. Original 1950s-1970s CBS ranch houses were framed for jalousie windows and narrow aluminum sliders, not for modern HVHZ-rated impact units. When we pull an old patio door, we often find undersized or water-damaged headers, failed waterproofing under the threshold, and rough openings that don’t match any standard unit made today.
Permits are mandatory in West Hollywood for door replacement that changes the rough opening, and the inspector is going to require current code for whatever framing is exposed. That means a rotted sub-sill gets rebuilt with pressure-treated lumber and proper flashing. A sagging header gets reinforced. An undersized buck gets replaced. None of this is optional, and any contractor who doesn’t mention it before starting is either lying or hasn’t done enough West Hollywood work to know better.
Our process is built for exactly this. We inspect before we quote. We write allowances into the contract for the most common surprises, like deteriorated framing or non-standard rough openings. And if we find something we didn’t anticipate, you get a written change order with the exact price before we touch another screw. No verbal “oh, this is going to be a little more” at 3 p.m. on a Thursday. Ed’s name is on the door, and on every job we do.
On a 1963 CBS ranch near Taft Street, our crew removed a corroded three-panel aluminum slider whose jamb had sagged from decades of salt-laden air and whose laminated glass interlayer was delaminating. The rough opening measured 94 3/8 inches. No off-the-shelf Miami-Dade NOA unit would fit. We installed a custom-sized PGT impact-rated slider with a reinforced header and a new pressure-treated buck, bringing the design pressure up to HVHZ large-missile rating. The owner’s wind mitigation inspection passed the same week. That’s not a rare job in West Hollywood. It’s a typical Tuesday.
This page exists to tell West Hollywood homeowners exactly what code-triggered surprises a sliding glass door replacement uncovers in their 1950s-1970s concrete-block homes, and how we price and approve every one in writing before work begins. No other city in Broward has quite the same concentration of non-standard rough openings wrapped in HVHZ code requirements. Neighboring Hollywood and Miramar have newer wood-frame subdivisions where stock units fit more often. West Hollywood is different, and you need a company that already knows the difference.
We Also Serve Cities Near West Hollywood
Winslow’s crews work throughout Broward County, including Hollywood, Andover, Miramar, and West Park. If you’re in a neighboring city and dealing with the same impact-rating and insurance questions, our Sliding Glass & Patio Doors team covers the full area with the same upfront pricing and Done Right Promise. One call gets you scheduled for a free measure, wherever you are in the corridor.
Serving West Hollywood, FL — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the West Hollywood 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 — Sliding Glass & Patio Doors in West Hollywood
Yes. West Hollywood sits entirely inside Broward County’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so any replacement door must carry a Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval for your specific configuration. We only install units that carry the required approvals, and we match design pressures to your actual opening, not a generic rating. Call (844) 901-4551 for a free measure and we’ll confirm what your home needs.
Your original single-pane aluminum slider is a zero-rated opening under current HVHZ rules. Florida insurers are now aggressively non-renewing policies over exactly these openings, especially in ZIP 33021. Replacing it with an impact-rated unit, installed with the proper NOA and a passing wind mitigation inspection, is the standard fix. We handle these replacements for West Hollywood homeowners every week, coordinating with your inspector as needed.
It typically will. Impact-rated laminated glass blocks significantly more UV and solar heat than the original single-pane aluminum sliders common in West Hollywood’s post-war ranch homes. You’ll likely notice a difference in rooms facing west, where afternoon sun through old glass heats up the slab and everything on it. The exact savings depend on your home’s orientation and your AC usage. Call (844) 901-4551 for an exact quote, and we’ll talk through what’s realistic for your specific house.
Yes, and this is one of the most common combined jobs we do across West Hollywood. Jalousie windows are zero-rated openings under HVHZ rules and a near-automatic red flag on insurance inspections. We almost always replace the jalousie and the patio door under a single permit, which saves on inspection fees and coordinates the work so you’re not opening the wall twice. Call (844) 901-4551 and we’ll measure both openings together.
Any West Hollywood contractor who has done this work knows that undersized or deteriorated framing is common in 1950s-1970s CBS construction, and code requires fixing it once it’s exposed. At Winslow, we inspect first, write allowances into the contract for the most likely framing repairs, and if we find something else, you get a written change order with the exact price before we proceed. No verbal surprises. No inflated “discovery” charges. That’s how Ed’s done it since 2011.
Ready to replace or repair your sliding glass door in West Hollywood? Call (844) 901-4551 now and schedule your free in-home estimate. A real person answers, day or night. The one down the road.
Written by Ed Winslow, Owner at Winslow Windows & Doors, serving West Hollywood since 2011.










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