Impact Windows in Fort Myers - Free In-Home Measure, Written Price

Trusted Impact Windows for Fort Myers Homeowners

Impact windows in Fort Myers typically cost $90 to $140 per square foot installed, with a full-home retrofit for a standard 2,000-square-foot house running between $18,000 and $32,000 before any rebates or insurance discounts. Installation usually takes two to five days depending on home size and whether you’re replacing existing windows or doing a full new-construction install. Winslow Windows & Doors has been installing impact-rated windows across Lee County since 2011, and our crews handle everything from single-window replacements to whole-home hurricane protection retrofits.

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We’re not a franchise operation that slipped into town last year. Ed Winslow founded this company, answers the phone, and stands behind every install with a promise that outlasts the mortgage: the 36500-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we make it right. Period. Call (239) 453-7751 and a live person picks up. Not a voicemail. Not a call center in another state. A real person in Fort Myers who knows exactly what your windows are up against from June through November.

Fort Myers sits in one of the most active hurricane corridors in the country. Building codes here reflect that reality. Since 2002, the Florida Building Code has required impact-rated protection on new construction anywhere within one mile of the coast, and the High Velocity Hurricane Zone requirements for Miami-Dade and Broward extend their influence into Lee County’s coastal communities. After Hurricane Ian in 2022, hundreds of Fort Myers homeowners learned the difference between “hurricane-rated” marketing and actual impact protection. We were here before Ian, through Ian, and after Ian, replacing failed windows and retrofitting homes that should have had Fort Myers Impact Windows from the start. That experience is what we bring to every estimate.

Free estimates are standard. Written line-item pricing is standard. No trip charge inside our home county of Lee. Seniors and veterans always save 10%. That’s not a promotion. That’s how we’ve done business for fourteen years.

What Our Impact Windows Service Includes

Impact windows are laminated glass units engineered to survive a Category 5 hurricane’s windborne debris without shattering. They use two panes of tempered glass bonded with a polymer interlayer, typically polyvinyl butyral (PVB), all set inside heavy-gauge aluminum or vinyl frames secured with structural screws into the home’s concrete block or wood framing. In Fort Myers, where a two-by-four launched by 150 mph winds is not a hypothetical but a documented post-Ian insurance claim, this construction is the difference between a broken window and a catastrophic breach. Winslow Windows & Doors installs impact windows that meet Miami-Dade County PA-201/PA-202 standards, the strictest code in the country, even for homes that only require the less stringent Florida Building Code large-missile rating.

Beyond hurricane protection, impact glass blocks up to 99% of UV rays, cutting fading on floors and furniture in Florida’s relentless sun. It also reduces outside noise by roughly 50% compared to single-pane windows. If you live near the Midpoint Bridge hum, the weekly lawn crews, or a busy stretch of Colonial Boulevard, that difference is immediately noticeable. And there’s the security angle: laminated glass resists forced entry in a way standard tempered glass never will. A burglar with a crowbar bounces off impact glass. That matters in any neighborhood, from McGregor Boulevard to San Carlos Park.

Impact Window Installation & Replacement

This is the core of what we do. Full installation includes removal and disposal of the existing windows (typically $150 to $200 per opening depending on what’s in there), prep of the rough opening, installation of the new impact-rated frame with structural anchoring, foam insulation around the perimeter, exterior and interior trim work, and final sealing with commercial-grade polyurethane sealant. We handle both retrofit installation, where we fit new impact windows into existing openings, and full tear-out replacement for homes where the original frames are rotted, racked, or simply not square after thirty years of Florida humidity. Download our Impact Windows Maintenance Checklist for Fort Myers Homeowners to protect your investment.

We stock impact windows from PGT and CGI, which account for the bulk of our residential installs in Fort Myers. Both brands manufacture here in Florida, which means shorter lead times and easier warranty claims than out-of-state manufacturers. A standard double-hung PGT WinGuard impact window runs $700 to $1,100 per opening before labor. A CGI Estate series, which offers better acoustic performance and thicker laminated glass, runs $1,000 to $1,500 per opening. Casement windows, which are common in Fort Myers mid-century homes in neighborhoods like Palm City and Dean Park, cost 15% to 20% more than double-hungs of the same size because the hardware and sealing requirements are more complex. Our lead installer has been setting casement impact windows since 2011, and we’ve solved the sticking and alignment problems that plague poorly installed casements within months of installation.

Impact Sliding Glass & Patio Door Installation

Sliding glass doors are the single largest opening in most Fort Myers homes, and during a hurricane they become the largest single point of failure. A properly rated impact sliding door costs between $4,500 and $9,000 installed, depending on width, number of panels, and whether you’re doing a standard two-panel or a multi-panel pocketing system. We install impact sliders from PGT, CGI, and ES Windows, all Miami-Dade certified for the wind and impact loads we see on the Gulf Coast.

Most of the sliders we replace in Fort Myers were installed during the 1980s and 1990s construction boom, before impact standards existed. They use single-pane glass, thin aluminum frames, and roller tracks that bind after twenty years of salt air and sand. New impact sliders use 304 stainless steel rollers (not zinc-plated), reinforced stiles that won’t deflect, and interlocking rails that resist wind-driven water intrusion. We set every slider on a bed of structural silicone and verify drainage weeps before we’re done, because a slider that sheds hurricane winds but leaks rainwater into the wall cavity is a long-term rot problem waiting to happen. In Fort Myers, where humidity sits near 85% for half the year, that rot turns into mold fast.

Impact Garage Doors

A hurricane-rated front door and impact windows don’t mean much if your two-car garage door folds like a potato chip under wind pressure. Once a garage door breaches, the wind enters the home and pressurizes the interior, and roofs lift off from the inside. We install impact-rated garage doors from leading Florida manufacturers, reinforced with steel bracing to meet large-missile impact requirements in Lee County’s windborne debris region. An impact garage door for a standard double-car opening runs $6,500 to $14,000 installed, including a reinforced track system, heavier torsion springs, and wind-load posts if your opening requires them.

We service the garage-door side of the business with the same teams that install our impact windows, which means whoever shows up knows how the entire envelope of your house works together. We’ll assess whether your existing door can be stiffened with a bracing kit (sometimes $800 to $1,500, depending on the door) or whether full replacement makes more sense given its age and condition. For most Fort Myers homes built before 2002, replacement is the honest answer. We’ll tell you that face to face, not over a sales script.

Custom & Geometric Impact Windows

Fort Myers has no shortage of interesting homes: mid-century moderns in the 33901 zip code with floor-to-ceiling fixed panes, Key West-style raised homes on San Carlos Island with the expected eyebrow transoms, and newer builds in Gateway and the Forum with arch-top feature windows and trapezoid accents that would make a production-window salesman go pale. We handle all of them, including Impact Windows - Cape Coral homeowners often need for their unique coastal properties. Custom impact windows with architectural shapes, radius tops, or non-standard sizes account for maybe 15% of our window business, but they’re the jobs other contractors in Lee County quietly decline.

We order custom shapes through PGT and CGI’s custom departments, with lead times typically running 8 to 12 weeks depending on the complexity and time of year. We coordinate with your builder or handle it direct for remodels, and every custom unit is engineered and tested to the same Miami-Dade standards as our production windows. If the opening is unusual enough to require structural review by a Florida-licensed engineer, we have one on call and handle that coordination within our estimate, not as a surprise change order. That’s the Winslow difference: the price we quote is the price you pay.

Brands We Service for Impact Windows

PGT is the Florida heavyweight, and if we were only allowed to install one brand for the rest of our company’s existence, it would be PGT. They’re based in North Venice, Florida, and their WinGuard and WinGuard Vinyl lines are purpose-built for the Florida Building Code’s High Velocity Hurricane Zone and windborne debris requirements. We’ve installed hundreds of PGT windows in Fort Myers since 2011, and we maintain a direct account with their warranty department, which means if a seal fails or hardware binds, we’re not handing you an 800 number to sort it out yourself. We file the claim, order the part, and fix it. The 36500-Day Done Right Promise covers our workmanship regardless of what PGT’s warranty covers.

We also install CGI, particularly their Estate and Sentinel lines, when clients want heavier laminated glass and better acoustic performance. CGI is manufactured in Miami, and their Estate series runs a thicker PVB interlayer than code minimum, which gives measurable improvement in both sound control and forced-entry resistance. For homeowners in Fort Myers whose homes sit close to their neighbors, where a PGT double-hung might be enough in the front and CGI Estate windows make more sense for a master bedroom facing a noisy street, we’ll spec both. We’d rather sell you the right window for each location than a one-size-fits-all package.

For specialty and door applications we carry Mr-Glass, Therma-Tru, and ViewLux in our lineup. Therma-Tru handles our impact-rated exterior doors, particularly their Legacy Steel and Smooth-Star fiberglass models with multi-point locking hardware. Mr-Glass provides our more budget-conscious laminated impact options without sacrificing Miami-Dade ratings. ViewLux covers our thermally broken aluminum impact windows, which solve the classic Florida problem of a beautiful aluminum window that sweats and transfers heat in August. We’ll match the brand to the need and the budget, and we install them all to the same standard. If you already know what you want, great. If you don’t, call (239) 453-7751 and we’ll walk the house with you and tell you what makes sense room by room.

Signs You Need Impact Windows Right Now

• Your windows date from before 2002 or you don’t know their age. The Florida Building Code’s impact requirements took effect March 1, 2002, in Lee County. If your home predates that and windows haven’t been changed, you have ordinary annealed or tempered glass, neither of which survives windborne debris impact. Most Fort Myers homes built between 1970 and 2002 have single-pane aluminum windows that fail debris testing by a wide margin. Post-Ian, your insurer already knows this.
• You’re boarding up with plywood every time a named storm enters the Gulf. Plywood shut down for a hurricane is better than nothing, but only when installed correctly with a Fastener schedule that most homeowners guess at. Impact windows protect you 24/7 without the pre-storm scramble, the ladder work in high winds, and the storage problem for the other 360 days of the year. They also protect when you’re not home to board up, which for snowbirds in Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel is the whole point.
• Your home insurance carrier is asking about wind mitigation. Insurers in Lee County have applied heavy pressure since Ian, with premiums doubling and tripling for homes without documented impact protection. Installed impact windows with Florida Product Approval and Miami-Dade NOA numbers unlock wind mitigation discounts that can offset the cost within five to eight years. We provide the full product approval documentation and a wind mitigation report your insurer will accept.
• You can feel air movement or condensation between panes. A failed seal on a double-pane window is not just an energy problem; it’s structural degradation. Fog between panes means the desiccant in the spacer is saturated and the insulating gas, usually argon, has leaked out. In Fort Myers humidity, once the seal fails, condensation becomes permanent, the glass coating degrades, and the window loses most of its thermal performance. It’s also a sign the window is old enough that impact replacement makes more sense than repairing the sash.
• You’ve had a recent break-in attempt or live on a ground floor. Fort Myers’ property crime rate historically runs above the Florida state average, and standard windows give a burglar entry in under 30 seconds. Impact glass turns that into a multi-minute, noisy, and usually abandoned effort. For ground-floor windows, French doors, and rear-facing openings hidden by vegetation, the security upgrade alone justifies the cost for many of our clients, especially in rentals and Airbnb properties in Cape Coral and Fort Myers Beach.

Our Impact Windows Process - Step by Step

We don’t do one-call closes or pressure tactics. Most clients spend one to three weeks in decision-making after the estimate, and we encourage it. Measure carefully once, quote honestly, install deliberately. That’s the entire playbook.

Step 1: The in-home estimate and walkthrough. An owner (usually Ed) or a senior estimator comes to the house, walks every opening with you, and talks about what each window needs to do. We measure everything by hand and laser, we check the existing framing for rot or racking, and we ask about your priorities: noise, security, energy, storm protection, or all four. This takes 60 to 90 minutes. You get a written, line-item estimate the same day, with labor separated from materials and each window listed individually. No lump-sum fog, no “we’ll sharpen the pencil if you sign today.”

Step 2: Product selection and ordering. Once you’ve reviewed the estimate and decided to proceed, we schedule a 30-minute product appointment to finalize frame colors, glass tints, grid patterns, and hardware finishes. We order direct from PGT, CGI, or whichever manufacturer we’ve specced, in writing, with a documented lead time. Typical production windows run two to six weeks; custom shapes run eight to twelve. We give you the delivery date range in writing at this stage.

Step 3: Permitting and code compliance. Lee County requires a building permit for window replacement when structural anchoring changes. We pull the permit, coordinate the inspection, and walk the job through final sign-off. Your impact windows must carry Florida Product Approval numbers and, ideally, Miami-Dade NOA numbers. We print those and attach them to the permit documents. If you’re in a community with an HOA or architectural review board, we’ll deliver whatever product specifications and elevation drawings they request. We’ve worked with virtually every major Fort Myers HOA and condo association in the last fourteen years.

Step 4: Installation day. Crews arrive at 8 a.m. in marked trucks, wearing Winslow uniforms. Photos and background checks are on file for every technician who enters your home. We protect floors with ram board, cover furniture in active work areas, and work one room at a time to keep your house as livable as possible. Retrofit installation follows Florida Building Code anchoring schedules, with stainless or zinc-dichromate fasteners in the quantities specified per the NOA. We set each window in a full perimeter bead of polyurethane sealant, foam the gap between frame and rough opening, and trim to match the existing architecture. Most full-home retrofits run three to five working days.

Step 5: Inspection, walkthrough, and Done Right walk-away. The Lee County inspector signs off, we walk every window with you and explain the hardware, the cleaning requirements, and the warranty paperwork, and we leave the job clean enough that you’d never know we were there except for the new windows. Our workmanship is covered by the 36500-Day Done Right Promise with no expiration date. If something in our installation fails ten years from now, we fix it. That’s not boilerplate. That’s the promise Ed built the company on.

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Impact Windows Near Fort Myers - Our Service Area

We’re based in Fort Myers and install impact windows in Fort Myers proper, from the historic River District to the new neighborhoods off Treeline Avenue. Our service area runs south to Cape Coral, east to Lehigh Acres, and throughout Lee County including North Fort Myers, Estero, Bonita Springs, Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, San Carlos Park, Cypress Lake, and up into Charlotte County’s Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte. Typical response time inside Lee County is next-day for estimates. No trip charge inside Lee County, ever. The one down the road keeps his promises.

Frequently Asked Questions - Impact Windows in Fort Myers

Schedule Your Impact Windows Service in Fort Myers Today

Impact windows are a permanent investment in your Fort Myers home, and the decision deserves straight answers, not a sales pitch. Call (239) 453-7751 and a live person at Winslow Windows & Doors will answer. We’ll schedule your free in-home estimate, walk every window with you, and hand you a line-item written quote with no obligation and no trip charge. Upfront pricing. NOA numbers in writing. The one down the road.

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