Central Florida

Charley crossed the state in August 2004 and tore a path right through the Orlando metro, taking down trees and roofs from Kissimmee up through Winter Park. Thirteen years later Irma knocked out power across Orange County for the better part of a week and reminded Central Florida that inland exposure still means hours of sustained tropical-storm-force winds, tornado-spawning rain bands, and a wave of insurance non-renewals. Homeowners in Lake Nona, Celebration, Windermere, Dr. Phillips, Baldwin Park, and the older Winter Park and Oviedo neighborhoods have spent the years since hardening their homes with impact windows, accordion and roll-down shutters, and lightweight fabric systems rated for the 120–140 mph design winds that apply across the I-4 corridor.

The installers we list across Central Florida permit weekly with Orange County, Seminole County, Osceola County, Lake County, and the City of Orlando, and they know the architectural review rules inside master-planned communities like Lake Nona, Baldwin Park, Hunters Creek, Celebration, and the Dr. Phillips neighborhoods. They are fluent in the historic district nuances of Winter Park's Park Avenue corridor and the chain-of-lakes estates in Windermere, and they handle the rolling-hills permitting realities of south Lake County around Clermont. Several have a true Central Florida physical presence — Sun Barrier Products has manufactured shutters out of Longwood since 1988, and FAS Exteriors runs showrooms on Mercy Drive in Orlando and Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park. Most coordinate directly with Citizens Property Insurance and the major Florida carriers on the OIR-B1-1802 wind mitigation form so the work actually moves the premium.