CGI Windows & Doors in Lauderdale Lakes, FL

CGI Windows & Doors in Lauderdale Lakes, FL | TruePane Windows & Doors

We service, repair, and replace CGI windows and doors across Lauderdale Lakes, and we do it as an independent provider, not a manufacturer affiliate. The work here is different because nearly every home and condo in this city dates to the 1960s and 70s, which means most CGI jobs we touch are full-frame replacements into old jalousie openings that were never built for impact-rated units. If you need a straight answer about your CGI windows or doors, call us at (754) 238-2201.

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We’ve been doing CGI sales & service in Broward County long enough to know that a Miami-Dade NOA sticker is the minimum bar, not a selling point. Lauderdale Lakes sits in a High Velocity Hurricane Zone, and the inspectors here hold every opening to that standard. We pull permits for Lauderdale Lakes service area jobs weekly, so the process isn’t new to us.

Why Lauderdale Lakes Residents Choose Us for CGI Service

Dale Kessler, our owner, grew up in Kendall when that part of Miami-Dade was mostly nurseries and canal roads. He watched his father re-glaze storefronts along the Tamiami Trail before he ever earned a paycheck, and he trained at Miami Dade College’s vocational program, learning to read a rough opening slowly and without guessing. He still measures every job himself.

That matters for CGI work in Lauderdale Lakes because these 50-year-old concrete block homes rarely give you a clean opening. We’ve learned what a corroded jalousie frame looks like from the inside, how Broward humidity eats aluminum at the weep holes, and what an inspector will flag before he climbs the ladder. We’re an independent CGI service provider, which means we’re not tied to one product line or obligated to push a sale that doesn’t solve your problem. If a repair is honest work, we say so. If the frame is gone, we tell you that too.

Our techs are background-checked and uniformed. They measure every opening twice, quote manufacturer lines side by side on paper, and register both warranty layers before the truck leaves your driveway. That’s our Keystone Standard, and it’s been the backbone of our work since 2008.

Common CGI Windows & Doors Problems We Solve in Lauderdale Lakes

• Salt-air oxidation through the frame at the weep holes. On 1960s CBS homes, decades of Broward humidity and salt air eat through aluminum frames exactly where water is supposed to drain. Glass swaps alone become unsafe because the frame itself is compromised. The frame has to come out.
• Roller and track corrosion on CGI sliding doors. Broward humidity gets into the track assembly and corrodes rollers from the inside. You’ll notice the door lifts off its track or grinds when you open it, even though the seal and glass look fine. We fix this with OEM or marine-grade aftermarket hardware, depending on the unit.
• Header deflection after jalousie-to-CGI retrofits. Original jalousie rough openings were never framed for a solid impact unit. When an out-of-area contractor installs a CGI window without reframing, the header deflects and the glass stresses within one season. We see this often enough that it’s part of our standard inspection.
• NOA sticker delamination. UV and salt air in Lauderdale Lakes cause the Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance sticker to peel and fade. An otherwise sound unit gets red-tagged by a Broward inspector because the sticker can’t be read. We pre-check sticker readability before calling inspection.
• Wind-driven rain through old louver slots. Original jalousie windows leak by design when the wind hits them sideways during a storm. Upgrading a full wall to CGI fixed or casement impact units stops that, but only if the old jalousie frame is removed and the opening rebuilt properly.

CGI Service in Lauderdale Lakes: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment

Here’s the thing most window companies won’t tell you until you’re into the job: Lauderdale Lakes is a fully built-out city. What’s standing today was built in the 1960s and 70s, mostly single-story CBS homes and two-to-four-story concrete condos. There’s no new-construction pipeline, which means the original single-pane aluminum jalousie and sliding windows are still in place across most of the city. Those windows were never designed for impact loads, and the rough openings they sit in have no structural window buck that meets today’s HVHZ load path.

What that means for CGI owners and buyers is simple: a proper impact replacement here is almost always a full-frame-out and header reframing job, not an insert. We’ve pulled permits for homes off NW 39th Street near Lauderdale Lakes Middle School where the original jalousie frame was so wall-width that pulling it meant exposing the entire rough opening. If a contractor tells you they can drop a CGI unit into the existing jalousie frame and pass Broward inspection, they’re wrong. The inspector knows what a jalousie opening looks like, and he’ll red-tag it.

Our crew did exactly this on a 1968 CBS ranch off NW 39th Street, where the owner had two cracked jalousie panes and a corroded CGI Estate Series fixed window on the east wall. We removed the rotted aluminum jalousie frame entirely, rebuilt the rough opening with pressure-treated bucks, and installed a new Estate Series fixed impact unit with the NOA sticker facing the inspector’s ladder. It passed first try. The owner stopped getting wind-driven rain through the old louver slots that same week.

CGI Models & Products We Service in Lauderdale Lakes

We work on all four CGI lines you’ll find in Broward County: the Estate Series, the Classic Series, the Sentinel Series, and the Targa Series. Estate and Classic are the most common in Lauderdale Lakes because they were the go-to replacements when condo associations first started requiring impact windows in the 1990s and 2000s. Sentinel and Targa show up more on newer work and full-frame retrofits where a homeowner wanted the heavier frame profile.

When the original geometry is intact, we use factory OEM hardware and weatherstripping. For 1960s retrofits, we often spec marine-grade PVD-coated aftermarket hinges and weep covers because they outlast the OEM in Lauderdale Lakes salt air. We’ll repair a CGI sash or hardware set when the frame is sound and the glass isn’t stress-cracked, but we won’t push a repair when a full-frame HVHZ replacement is the only way to pass Broward inspection. That’s the line we hold.

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Service Areas Near Lauderdale Lakes

We service CGI windows and doors across the Broward corridor, including CGI service in Lauderhill to the south, CGI service in Layton to the east, and the surrounding neighborhoods where the housing stock is the same 1960s CBS construction we know from Lauderdale Lakes. If you’re just outside the city line, call us at (754) 238-2201 and we’ll tell you straight whether we can get a crew out to you.

Book Your CGI Service in Lauderdale Lakes Today

Call (754) 238-2201 to schedule a free estimate. A live person answers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We’ll measure the opening, quote the work on paper, and tell you what’s actually going on with your CGI windows or doors in Lauderdale Lakes.

Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Lauderdale Lakes and Broward County since 2008.