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We provide independent CGI window and door service across Redington Shores, from full frame replacements to hardware swaps on existing units. The one thing that separates our CGI work here is simple: we know this island’s salt problem better than anyone because we’ve been pulling corroded frames and fogged sashes out of Redington Shores homes for years. Call (754) 238-2201 for a free estimate. We’re not a CGI factory crew. We’re local glaziers who work on their products every week, and we know what fails first when two bodies of water are throwing salt at the same house.
Why Redington Shores Residents Choose Us for CGI Service
CGI builds a substantial window. The aluminum extrusions are thick, the laminated glass is serious, and the stainless hardware is spec’d for hurricane zones. But no product survives this island unchanged. Dale Kessler, our owner, grew up in Kendall and trained at Miami Dade College’s vocational program, where he learned to read a rough opening slowly and without guessing. That training shows up in how we approach every CGI sales & service job in Redington Shores. We don’t eyeball a window and guess at the problem. We pull the sash, inspect the glazing beads, check the weep holes, and look at what the salt has actually done to the metal. Our crews stock OEM-spec CGI glazing beads, roller assemblies, and weatherstripping profiles, so when a Redington Shores homeowner calls with a sliding door that binds or a fogged picture window, we’re not waiting a week on a parts order. Background-checked, uniformed technicians do full frame-to-sash teardowns rather than visual-only checks. That’s how you catch a sill track that’s about to rot through before the next hurricane season, not after.
Common CGI Windows & Doors Problems We Solve in Redington Shores
- Salt pitting and white corrosion on aluminum frames. On this island, it’s not just the Gulf side. East-facing, bay-side windows catch constant wind-driven salt off Boca Ciega Bay, and the factory anodizing breaks down first at screw penetrations. We see pinholes that turn into structural pitting within a few years, especially on 1950s and 1960s cottages where the original installation left raw edges exposed.
- Fogged IGUs from desiccant saturation. Redington Shores’s daily thermal swings push humid salt air through micro-breaches in the edge seal. The desiccant inside the spacer bar saturates ahead of schedule, and the glass fogs from the inside. We see this on CGI units that are 8 to 10 years old, which is nowhere near what a properly installed impact window should give you inland.
- Roller assembly cracking and galvanic corrosion on sliding doors. The stainless pins sit against raw aluminum inside the track. When storm-forced salt pitting roughens that aluminum, the contact point becomes a corrosion cell. The rollers crack, the door stops rolling smoothly, and the stainless pin eventually shears. It’s a regular repair for us east of Gulf Boulevard.
- Warped or racked sashes on large fixed and picture windows. A direct Gulf storm pushes wind-load cycles against the glass that a window installed in Largo or Seminole never sees. The sash bows, the weep holes pitch out of alignment, and water stops draining. That pooled water inside the sill track accelerates the pitting problem. On a barrier island this narrow, it compounds fast.
- Non-compliant original windows that need full replacement. A large share of Redington Shores homes still carry the original jalousie or single-pane aluminum frames from decades ago. Those units fail current Florida Building Code wind-load and impact requirements outright. When a homeowner calls us about one broken pane, we show them what the code requires for this Wind-Borne Debris Region before we quote the repair.
CGI Service in Redington Shores: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Here’s something a Tampa-area contractor won’t tell you because they don’t work this strip weekly: Redington Shores is one of only three Pinellas municipalities on a barrier island narrower than 1,000 feet from Gulf to Bay. That means “bay-side” is not protected. It’s not the lee side. It’s just the other side of a very thin sandbar with open water 400 feet away. We routinely pull east-facing CGI Estate Series windows that are pocked at the exact same weep holes as the Gulf-facing units on the same house. The wind drives salt particles across the entire island, not just the beachfront. So when a homeowner replaces only their west-facing windows and thinks the east side can wait, what they’ve actually done is leave the other half of the house to rot on the same schedule. Whole-house impact packages are the only practical long-term solution we can recommend on this island with a straight face. The narrowness also matters for anchoring. On elevated rebuilds, the town requires a finished floor elevation 2 feet above base flood elevation on any substantial improvement. Our crew has to coordinate CGI window and door rough openings with the concrete slab height after the stem-wall pour, because the rough sill height is the dimension the impact-glazing anchor schedule is calculated from. Get that wrong and you’ve got a beautiful impact window anchored into the wrong structural plane. Measure it right the first time, or plan on coming back.
CGI Models & Products We Service in Redington Shores
We work on the full CGI residential lineup: Estate Series, Classic Series, Thermal Series, and Sentinel Series. That covers everything from high-end aluminum-clad Estate windows in elevated new construction to the Thermal Series units we see in 1960s ranch homes that were retrofitted for wind mitigation. On the parts side, we lean on CGI OEM components for extruded aluminum and gaskets because matching the original profile is the only way to keep a weather seal honest. But we don’t blindly stock OEM for everything. When the original zinc-plated hardware fails from pitting, we run marine-grade stainless aftermarket parts: Torx-head stainless fasteners, PVD-coated hinges, stainless roller pins. If a sash or frame has lost more than 25% of its structural metal to salt pitting, we won’t patch it. Patching just shoves the failure deeper into the wall. We quote the replacement, and we’re upfront about why.
Last spring our crew took out two original 1962 jalousie windows and a sliding glass door on a 160th Avenue home in Redington Shores that had been in the same family for 40 years. The east-side CGI Estate Series fixed window the homeowner had installed 9 years earlier was fogged between panes and the sash was bowed inward from storm-pressure flexing. When we pulled the unit, the aluminum sill track was pocked clean through from bay-side salt pitting at three weep holes. We spec’d a new Estate Series impact fixed window with PVC thermal break and PVD-coated stainless hardware, shimmed the rough opening to level before anchor installation, and fixed the flashing slope so water wouldn’t pool behind the stucco again. That’s what a full teardown reveals that a visual check misses.
CGI Service Pricing in Redington Shores
A CGI repair in Redington Shores runs somewhere between $250 and $600 for most hardware and IGU replacements, depending on the model and whether we’re pulling a sliding door or a fixed window. Full frame replacements with impact-rated CGI units start around $1,600 to $2,500 per opening, and whole-house packages scale from there. Two things in Redington Shores drive cost beyond the window itself: salt damage that expands the repair scope once we open the wall, and the anchoring requirements on elevated homes that demand more precise rough-opening work. A free estimate from us includes a frame-to-sash inspection, measurements on the wall, and a written line-item quote. We don’t toss a number over the phone without looking at the opening. Call (754) 238-2201 to schedule yours.
Serving Redington Shores, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Redington Shores 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 - CGI Windows & Doors in Redington Shores
Yes, you need impact-rated units on both elevations. Pinellas County designates all of Redington Shores as part of the Wind-Borne Debris Region, and the Florida Building Code does not exempt east-facing openings just because the Gulf is to the west. Beyond code, the bay side of this narrow island gets hammered by wind-driven salt and storm debris just as hard as the Gulf side. Non-impact glass on the east is a hole in your envelope during a named storm. Call (754) 238-2201 and we’ll walk you through what the code requires for your specific home.
We see builder-grade IGU seal failures in 5 to 7 years on Redington Shores, while the same glass in Seminole or Largo often makes it 12 to 15. The difference is salt-loaded humidity that never leaves the wall cavity and daily thermal swings that flex the edge seal. CGI’s laminated impact glass holds up better than builder-grade, but on this island even good glass fails faster than it does two miles inland. When one pane goes, we recommend inspecting the rest of the house. Call (754) 238-2201 for an exact quote on IGU replacement.
Yes, you need a permit. Redington Shores requires building permits for window and door replacements, even single-unit swaps, and the replacement must meet current Florida Building Code wind-load and impact standards. We pull the permit, coordinate the inspection, and make sure the product approval documents match what’s on your wall. It’s part of the job, not an add-on. Call (754) 238-2201 and we’ll handle the paperwork from start to finish.
They do. On an elevated Redington Shores home, the rough opening sits in a concrete or steel structure with a different anchor schedule than a slab-on-grade 1960s ranch. The rough sill height has to be coordinated with the finished floor elevation, and the anchor spacing for the impact-glazing schedule is calculated from that dimension. We work with the framer and the concrete crew during construction, not after the slab is poured. That coordination is the difference between passing wind mitigation inspection the first time and tearing a rough opening apart.
Not exactly, but we can come close. Those original aluminum frames on 1950s and 1960s Redington Shores cottages have trim profiles that CGI’s current lines don’t replicate one-for-one. What we do is spec the closest matching CGI frame style and build out the surrounding trim to preserve the cottage’s sightlines. We’ll show you the profile side by side on paper before you agree to anything. Call (754) 238-2201 and we’ll walk you through your options.
Service Areas Near Redington Shores
We serve Redington Shores and the neighboring Pinellas barrier-island communities year-round. Our crews also handle Redington Shores service area calls from North Redington Beach, Madeira Beach, Indian Shores, and Redington Beach. Across the bay and down the coast, we provide CGI service in Riviera Beach and CGI service in Royal Palm Beach with the same OEM parts and the same teardown-first approach.
Book Your CGI Service in Redington Shores Today
If you’ve got a CGI window or door in Redington Shores that’s fogged, pitted, binding, or leaking, call (754) 238-2201. A live person answers 24/7. We’ll schedule a free estimate, measure the openings on the wall, and give you a written line-item quote with both warranty layers registered in writing before the truck leaves the driveway. The Done Right Promise covers the work. If the pane is not true, the job is not done.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving Redington Shores 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.