Florida Keys specifics
What Is Different About Doing This in Monroe County
The highest design wind speeds in Florida, sitting outside the strictest approval regime. One road in. No property that is not coastal. And a great many houses whose main floor starts a story up.
Give us the mile marker and tell us whether the living floor is up on piers. Those two answers shape the job more than the window does.
Highest
Monroe carries the highest design wind speeds in Florida
Not HVHZ
And it is governed by statewide approval, not a Miami-Dade NOA
One road
Everything arrives down US-1. We plan the job around that
Licensed
A licensed Florida general contractor
5 florida keys specifics
Four things that change the job, and one that changes who does it.
Highest Wind, Lower Tier
The High Velocity Hurricane Zone covers Miami-Dade and Broward. Monroe County is not in it, and carries higher design wind speeds than either. The strictest test protocol does not apply where the numbers are hardest.
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One Road In
Every material used in Monroe County arrives along one road. There is no second route, no nearby branch to run back to, and no way to absorb a mistake by sending somebody tomorrow.
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There Is No Inland
In every other Florida market a buyer can move inland and pay less. In Monroe County that option does not exist. Every property is coastal, so the specification decisions that are optional elsewhere are not optional here.
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Up on Piers
A great deal of Keys housing has its living floor raised on piers or columns. That raises height above grade, which raises the calculated pressure, and it turns straightforward access into a planning problem.
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How We Work Here
We are based in Fort Lauderdale and the Keys are a long way down a single road. We work the county in planned blocks with crews lodged locally, and that has consequences worth stating up front.
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Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.