Impact Windows in Westchester

Storm Pros has completed a combined roof-and-impact-window project for a Westchester homeowner, and installs impact windows and doors throughout this West Miami-Dade community. Westchester's blocks are lined with 1950s and '60s concrete-block ranch homes, most still wearing the aluminum or jalousie windows they were built with, decades before impact glass. Upgrading them to Miami-Dade-approved impact windows is one of the most meaningful protection moves a home here can make.

Westchester is one of West Miami-Dade's oldest postwar suburbs: the vast majority of its homes were built between 1950 and 1969, single-story concrete-block ranches on modest lots. That construction is structurally sound, but the original windows are almost always the weakest point in a storm. Impact-rated units replace single-pane and jalousie glass with laminated, tested assemblies engineered for the wind loads this inland-but-exposed part of the county sees.

In Miami-Dade County, every impact window must carry the county's own product approval (a Notice of Acceptance) for the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the strictest window standard in the country. Beyond protection, Florida Statute 627.0629 requires insurers to discount the windstorm portion of your premium for verified wind-mitigation features, and impact-rated opening protection earns the opening-protection credit. The state's new OIR-B1-1802 verification form takes effect in April 2026, with its credits applied from July 2026. Documented impact windows position you for that cycle.

Because Westchester is unincorporated, the permit for your installation goes through Miami-Dade County rather than a city building department, a process Storm Pros handles for you end to end, from NOA-approved products to the final inspection.