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We provide independent CGI window and door service across North Palm Beach, from the Country Club plats to the canal-side streets off Lakeside Drive. The thing that makes our CGI work here different is simple: we plan every job around two forces most contractors never mention until it’s too late. One is Palm Beach County’s 140+ mph wind code. The other is salt air arriving from the Intracoastal and the interior canals at the same time. Call (813) 320-9346 and we’ll walk you through what your specific openings actually need.
We are not a CGI-authorized dealer, and we won’t pretend to be. What we are is a crew that has serviced hundreds of independent CGI installations across Palm Beach County’s coastal cities, including CGI in West Palm Beach. That field experience, earned on real jobs rather than through a manufacturer’s certification program, is exactly what a North Palm Beach homeowner needs when a CGI Sentinel Series window starts binding or a French door lock gearbox seizes up from canal moisture.
Why North Palm Beach Residents Choose Us for CGI Service
Most window companies in this village know how to sell a product. Fewer know how to service one after the warranty gets complicated. We’ve spent years working on CGI frames, hardware, and glazing in salt-air zones, and that shows in how we diagnose. A pitted clear-anodized frame on a canal-front home isn’t a mystery to us. It’s a Monday.
Dale Kessler runs our crew, and he grew up in Seminole Heights back when it was more bungalows than cocktail bars. He learned the glazing trade at Hillsborough Community College’s construction technology program, spending more time on the shop floor than in a classroom, and he’s been measuring, setting, and sealing windows and doors across the Tampa Bay area for the better part of two decades. His father ran a small building-maintenance outfit for thirty years, so Dale understands something in his bones: a callback isn’t an inconvenience. It’s a character flaw. That’s the standard our North Palm Beach CGI service runs on. Background-checked, uniformed technicians, every opening measured twice, every quote laid out on paper side by side so you see what you’re buying.
We’ve also been doing this long enough to know that trust comes from specifics, not adjectives. That’s the Keystone Standard: both manufacturer warranty layers registered in writing, durations stated, before the truck leaves your driveway. The 90-Day Done Right Promise backs it. If it’s not done right, we make it right, no paperwork fights, no arguing. If it needs to be in writing to be true, we will put it in writing.
Common CGI Windows & Doors Problems We Solve in North Palm Beach
- Pitted and flaking clear-anodized aluminum frames. We see this on canal-side homes less than ten years old. North Palm Beach gets salt spray from the Lake Worth Lagoon on one side and the interior tidal canals on the other. Standard extruded aluminum doesn’t stand a chance. The fix is often a swap to marine-grade stainless hardware and a better finish, or a conversation about whether a different frame material makes more sense long-term.
- Failed multi-point lock gearboxes on older CGI French doors. Corrosion from coastal moisture seizes the internal mechanism before the visible sash shows any wear. The door looks fine until the handle stops turning all the way. We open the gearbox, show you what happened, and source the replacement rather than slapping on whatever fits.
- Loss of impact rating on CGI casement sashes. North Palm Beach gets frequent afternoon thunderstorms, and repeated thermal cycling plus water exposure compresses the sealant and gasket set around the glass pocket. Once that happens, the unit isn’t doing the job the product approval says it does. We re-glaze and re-seal to spec, or we tell you straight if replacement is the honest call.
- UV-leached chalking and warping on white vinyl CGI frames. West-facing openings in the Country Club plat take brutal afternoon sun. Vinyl that would be fine inland here chalks, dulls, and sometimes warps. The pattern is so specific to west-facing walls that we mention it during estimates before the homeowner ever notices it.
- Jalousie-to-impact retrofit scope problems. A surprising number of homes in the original Country Club subdivisions still have jalousie windows. They cannot be made impact-compliant under any condition. What a homeowner calls a “window replacement” is always a full opening demolition and re-buck job. We explain this before we touch the first opening, not after.
CGI Service in North Palm Beach: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
North Palm Beach is the only Palm Beach County municipality we serve where enforcement of the 50% SBCCI rule is paired with a strict architectural review district covering the original North Palm Beach Country Club plats. That means a CGI impact retrofit on a 1960s ranch often can’t just meet code. It has to use a specific bronze anodized finish and frame profile to pass local design review. Two gates: one structural, one aesthetic. That combination doesn’t happen in Lake Park, CGI service in Jupiter, or Juno Beach.
What does that mean for a CGI owner here? It means the window you’re allowed to install is often dictated by the village before you even pick a model. A homeowner who wants, say, a standard silver anodized CGI Sentinel Series unit on a Country Club home may find the architectural review board won’t approve that finish on the street-facing elevation. The retrofit becomes a negotiation: impact-rated glazing that satisfies Palm Beach County’s 140+ mph wind rules, and a frame color and profile that the village says preserves the original character. We know where the gray areas are because we’ve worked both sides of that table. When a 1962 canal-side ranch on Lakeside Drive showed up with original jalousies on every west-facing wall, our crew cut out all six openings, re-bucked them to modern rough dimensions, and installed CGI Sentinel Series impact casements with marine-grade stainless hardware and bronze anodized frames. The homeowner was caught off guard by the scope until we showed him the original buck sizes were too narrow for any current impact-rated unit. He thought he was getting inserts. He was getting full-frame demolition, structural re-framing, and a two-day-longer job. But now the windows are true, the wind rating holds, and the finish matches the street.
CGI Models & Products We Service in North Palm Beach
We service the full CGI lineup we encounter in this village: Sentinel Series impact windows and doors, the Estate Collection custom casements and fixed units, the Vinyl Precision Series (PGC and PDC lines), and the Clad Wood Series including WoodClad and thermally broken aluminum clad frames. For parts, we source OEM CGI hinges, handles, and lock components through national independent suppliers whenever available. Mixing generic aftermarket parts into CGI impact assemblies can void the product approval, and we won’t do that to you. For out-of-warranty or discontinued series like older Estate Collection casements, we use marine-grade stainless or powder-coated aftermarket hardware built to survive North Palm Beach salt air, and we’re upfront when upgrading into a current CGI line is the better long-term investment than another repair.
CGI Service Pricing in North Palm Beach
Service call and diagnostic visits in North Palm Beach typically run $80 to $150, with the travel already built in. Hardware replacement, say a multi-point lock gearbox or a set of hinges, generally lands between $200 and $600 depending on the series and what’s still available from OEM suppliers. Impact-rated unit replacement for a standard CGI Sentinel Series window commonly runs $1,200 to $2,400 per opening, installed. Full-frame structural rebuilds, which are common on older Country Club homes with non-standard rough openings, run $3,000 to $5,000 per opening and are usually driven by the demolition, re-bucking, and framing scope. Every estimate we write is a line-item quote, free, with the numbers in front of you before we ask for anything. Call (813) 320-9346 for an exact quote. Estimates are free and nobody at TruePane will rush you.
Serving North Palm Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the North Palm Beach area and know this community well, just as we know CGI in Palm Beach. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - CGI Windows & Doors in North Palm Beach
Because the original rough openings in 1950s-1970s CBS ranch homes were sized for jalousie channels, not for the structural depth of a modern impact-rated CGI unit. The original buck frames are almost never wide or deep enough to accept the impact-unit dimensions, so the only code-compliant path is to strip the opening down to masonry, re-buck it, and install the CGI frame into a properly sized opening. Any contractor who tells you they can “just insert” an impact unit into those old jalousie pockets is asking you to pay for a window that won’t pass inspection. Call (813) 320-9346 and we’ll tell you what your specific openings need after looking at them.
Marine-grade painted or powder-coated finishes significantly outperform clear anodized aluminum in North Palm Beach’s bidirectional salt spray. The anodized finish on a CGI frame can pit and flake within ten years when it’s getting salted from the Intracoastal and an interior canal simultaneously. If you’re in the Country Club plat and need architectural review approval, the vapor-deposited or powder-coated bronze finish on CGI’s higher-spec units is the finish we point homeowners toward most often. It satisfies the review board and it stands up to the salt.
Yes, but the finish and profile selection has to happen before you buy the units. The village’s architectural review district for the original Country Club plats requires certain frame colors, usually a bronze anodized or painted finish, and a frame profile that doesn’t visually change the character of the house. CGI’s Sentinel and Clad Wood lines can meet that if you spec them correctly. The mistake we see most often is a homeowner ordering white vinyl or silver anodized units first, then discovering the review board won’t sign off. We’ll help you get the finish conversation right the first time, in writing, before the truck ever loads the windows.
Failed multi-point lock gearboxes on older CGI French doors. The internal mechanism corrodes and seizes before the door shows visible wear, so a homeowner suddenly can’t throw the lock or the handle binds halfway. On canal-front homes the failure rate is higher because the ambient moisture works on those internals year-round, a pattern we also see with CGI repair in Palm Beach Gardens. We source OEM gearboxes whenever the series is still supported, and when it isn’t, we use marine-grade replacements and tell you clearly what the alternative is. Every repair gets the same 90-Day Done Right Promise.
In most cases, a storm door replacement on an existing opening falls under the same permit as any exterior door replacement, but North Palm Beach’s architectural review can add a finish and profile condition for visible street-facing elevations. If the door changes the appearance of the front elevation, the review district can require additional documentation or a different finish. We pull permits and handle the village paperwork, and we’ll tell you before the job starts whether your door triggers anything beyond the standard application. Call (813) 320-9346 and we’ll check the address and give you a straight answer.
Service Areas Near North Palm Beach
Our crews run CGI service and repair calls from North Palm Beach through the surrounding coastal villages and into the inland plats: Lake Park, Juno Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Riviera Beach, and along the U.S. 1 corridor. We also maintain a CGI service in North Redington Beach for Pinellas County clients who need the same field knowledge. And for homeowners east of Orlando, our CGI service in Oakland covers the interior. If you’re in North Palm Beach service area, you’re already on our board. For a deeper look at the brand itself, see our CGI sales & service page.
Book Your CGI Service in North Palm Beach Today
Whether it’s a seized lock gearbox on a canal-side French door or a full jalousie-to-impact retrofit on a 1960s CBS ranch, we’ll show up on time, measure twice, and put the plan in writing before we start. Call (813) 320-9346 to schedule your free estimate. A live person answers, day or night.
Written by Dale Kessler, Owner at TruePane Windows & Doors, serving North Palm Beach and the surrounding coastal communities.
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.