Impact Sliding Glass Doors in Miami, FL
Contrary to popular belief, sliding glass doors don’t have to make your property more vulnerable than solid door alternatives. In fact, properly built and installed impact sliding glass doors can dramatically enhance your home’s protection, enhancing its style and expanding your views while helping you stand up to some of the fiercest storms South Florida is known for.
Elite Impact Glass has been voted “Miami’s Best Hurricane Impact Windows,” and for good reason. Like all our hurricane-rated glass and door products, we use only the most robust impact sliding glass door solutions based on proven impact-resistant designs and installation techniques.
Why Choose Hurricane/Impact Sliding Glass Doors?
Even beyond fulfilling Miami-Dade building code requirements, impact-rated sliding glass doors provide a wide range of benefits, mainly:
- Optimizing protection for both violent storms and home intrusions
- Opening up a wide range of stylistic choices
- Creating a wider entry point for a more inviting atmosphere
- Expanding views and exterior sightlines
- Improving insulation – especially with additional low-emissivity coatings
Hurricane Sliding Glass Door Brands We Carry
Elite Impact Glass specializes in only the most robust hurricane glass and door products built by the industry’s leading manufacturers. Our impact sliding glass doors from CGI, WinDoor, and Eco Doors come fully tested for maximum storm/impact ratings and properly installed, they also help bring your structure into greater compliance with Miami-Dade building codes for storm-resistant construction practices.
What Features Should I Look for in an Impact Sliding Glass Door?
Modern impact glass technology can endure up to 175 MPH winds, making impact sliding glass doors effective well past the Category 5 hurricane threshold. The glass itself is extremely robust, and even when cracked, an advanced industrial-strength coating ensures that any glass shards stay in place instead of scattering dangerously across the floor.
What it all means for homeowners is that they no longer need to view sliding glass doors as a compromise on home security and protection. Rather, impact sliding glass doors actually optimize security while improving utility (and possibly even property values).
The Best Materials for Impact Sliding Glass Doors
Be sure to choose only hurricane glass doors comprised of properly heat-strengthened glass, possibly with multiple layers. The glass also comes in varying thicknesses, and for further strength, there are three effective options for shatter-resistant glass coatings:
- Polyvinyl butyral (PVB), the most affordable option
- Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), being stronger and longer lasting
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), commonly used between double-paned glass
It’s further possible to combine PET with PVB for an even more robust hurricane-impact glass solution.
Note that different coatings also enhance the sliding glass door’s insulation, helping improve interior climate control efficiency.
A hurricane sliding glass door frame also requires ultra-durable materials, such as structural aluminum and specially formulated hard-vinyl composites, and the door must sit deep into the track/recess. Further, the rollers, locking mechanisms, and other hardware must be highly corrosion-resistant to withstand Florida’s high year-round humidity – best achieved using stainless steel and specialized polymers.
There are also two- and three-panel impact sliding glass doors available in a range of sliding glass door dimensions. It all depends on the size of your patio, balcony, or other opening where maintaining full light and panoramic views are desirable.
Elite Impact Glass: Your Resident Hurricane Glass and Door Experts
Elite hurricane glass and door technologies provide all the style and performance benefits of sliding glass doors, all while maximizing your property’s overall security and storm protection.
Of course, the best results depend on expert installation and advanced products, both of which are only available from a true hurricane impact window and door specialist.
The experienced technicians at Elite Impact Glass use only the most proven products and installation techniques. If you’re wondering whether impact sliding glass doors are right for your storm protection plan, contact us and request a free consultation today.
