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PGT Custom & Geometric Windows in Hollywood: What to Know First

We provide independent PGT custom and geometric window service in Hollywood, FL, with most jobs completed in a single visit. As an independent PGT service provider, we are not affiliated with or authorized by PGT, but our technicians work on PGT custom shapes and oversized openings regularly, and we know where these windows fail. Turnaround on most custom and geometric PGT work runs one to three days from diagnosis to completion, depending on whether we are sourcing OEM glass from PGT’s Hollywood-area distribution or fabricating a template for an arched or radius unit. Pricing is honest and line-itemed before any work starts. If you own PGT custom windows in Hollywood and something is not right, call (863) 334-2933 and a live person will answer.

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This page is for homeowners who bought PGT because of the impact rating and the warranty, and who now have a shaped window that fogs, an arch that leaks, or a custom opening that never sat right. It is not a brand brochure. It is what we see in Hollywood homes, week after week.

How PGT Products Fail, and How We Fix Them

PGT makes a solid window. We install and service them, and we do not hesitate to put them in a quote next to CGI or ES Windows and let the homeowner decide. But custom and geometric units carry stresses that standard rectangles do not, and in Hollywood’s salt air and summer humidity, those stresses show up as specific failures. Here is what we see:

• PGT WinGuard and custom radius units losing their argon fill. The seal on a true arch or half-round PGT unit takes more sun load at the apex than a rectangular sash ever will. We have pulled curved PGT units in Hollywood where the IGU had lost its fill in under eight years, leaving a fogged arch the homeowner swears happened overnight. The fix is a new IGU, templated to the exact radius, set with a sealant rated for high-UV southern exposure. Aftermarket glass can work here, but for WinGuard impact-rated units we recommend OEM glass so the impact rating and the PGT warranty stay intact.
• PGT PremierVue fixed geometric shapes that were never shimmed square. A trapezoid or triangle window that was set “good enough” will telegraph the problem in about two South Florida seasons. The frame racks slightly, the glass flexes, the seal fails. We diagnose this by checking the diagonal measurements on the frame itself before we ever touch the glass. That rough opening check catches install errors that PGT’s own paperwork will not cover, because the failure was in the set, not the product. We re-square, re-shim, and re-set the frame before installing new glass, because replacing glass in an out-of-true frame just means replacing it again in five years.
• PGT aluminum-frame arched windows with pitting at the mullion joints. Hollywood is a salt-air town, even a few miles inland. We see pitting and white corrosion at the joints where a geometric PGT frame meets a straight section or a mullion connector. It is almost always a drainage issue, not a material defect. Water sits in a channel that was designed for a different pitch, or the weep holes were drilled during install but painted over. We clean the channels, re-drill weeps where needed, and touch up the finish with a matched coating. The window does not need to be replaced. It needs to drain.
• PGT SGD (sliding glass door) and custom shaped transom combos that bind in July. We see this often in Hollywood ranch-style homes where a builder put a fixed geometric transom directly above a PGT slider. The transom and the slider expand at different rates, and by mid-summer the door drags. Homeowners think the door failed. The real cause is the transom frame pressing down on the header above the slider, and the fix is re-shimming the transom to relieve the pressure. It is a two-hour fix if the tech knows to look for it, and a two-thousand-dollar mistake if they start replacing rollers and tracks instead.
• PGT custom oversized openings with failed low-expansion foam around the perimeter. A custom opening in Hollywood, especially a large fixed radius or a picture window with an arch transom, needs the right foam and the right backer rod. We have pulled trim off oversized PGT openings and found voids where the installer used one can of foam for a job that needed three, leaving the perimeter flexing and the caulk line cracked. Water follows the crack. We re-insulate, re-seal, and re-trim the opening, and we match the exterior color so the repair does not look like a patch job.

Our PGT Custom & Geometric Windows Process

Here is how a PGT custom or geometric window job goes at TruePane Windows & Doors, from the first call to the final walkthrough:

1. 1
   You call, a person answers. No voicemail tree, no callback form. We take down the symptom, the PGT model if you know it, and the window’s location. We schedule a visit at a time that works for you.
2. 2
   The technician measures everything twice. We check the rough opening, the frame diagonals, the glass dimensions, and the existing sealant condition. For a radius or arch, we template the actual curve, because no two arch windows are exactly alike, even from the same PGT run.
3. 3
   We lay out the options on paper. OEM PGT glass versus quality aftermarket, repair versus replacement, and what each one costs. We write it down so you can see it. If we are pulling permits, we tell you that and we pull them.
4. 4
   We do the work. The old unit comes out, the opening gets corrected if it needs correcting, and the new IGU or replacement window goes in square and true. If the frame is sound, we reuse it. If it is not, we say so before we touch it.
5. 5
   We test the window in front of you. We open it, close it, lock it, run water where water runs. We check the drainage and the seal lines. We do not leave until the window passes.
6. 6
   We register both warranty layers in writing before we leave your driveway. That is the Keystone Standard. You get the paperwork, not a promise to mail it later. The Done Right Promise covers the workmanship from that moment.

Measure it right, set it square, and the paperwork takes care of itself. That is how we work.

What PGT Custom & Geometric Windows Costs in Hollywood

We will not give you a price over the phone without measuring anything. Any contractor who will is guessing, and you are the one who pays for a guess. What we can tell you is the range we see in Hollywood for the common PGT custom and geometric jobs:

• Replacing a fogged IGU in a PGT WinGuard radius unit: $350 to $800, depending on size, curve complexity, and whether the glass is OEM or aftermarket.
• Re-sealing and re-shimming a leaking geometric PGT window: $250 to $600, depending on access and how much of the old sealant has to be cut out.
• New PGT custom-shaped window installation, including new window: $900 to $2,500 per unit, depending on size, shape, impact rating, and finish. Arched and circular units run higher than plain geometrics.
• Full-frame replacement for a failed PGT custom opening: $1,200 to $3,000 or more for oversized or multi-section openings. This includes correcting the rough opening, new flashing, and new trim.

What moves the price: the curve, the glass lite count, whether the unit is impact rated, outside access height, and whether the existing frame is salvageable. We quote line items on paper before work starts, and we do not surprise you with a change order after the fact. Call (863) 334-2933 to schedule a free estimate. We will measure it right and put the number in writing.

Why Hollywood Homeowners Call TruePane Windows & Doors for PGT Work

Dale Kessler grew up in the Liberia neighborhood of Hollywood, watching his father reseal jalousie frames on weekends against whatever the Atlantic sent in. That is not a marketing story. It is why we treat a PGT arch window in a Hollywood home like it is going back under salt air tomorrow, because it is. Our techs are background-checked, uniformed, and trained to work in your home like it was their own mother’s. We carry OEM and quality aftermarket parts for PGT, and we are authorized installers for more than a dozen other lines, including CGI, CWS, ES Windows, and ECO Window Systems, so when a PGT unit is better off replaced, we can quote you the alternatives side by side on paper and you can decide with the numbers in front of you. Every job gets the Done Right Promise and the Keystone Standard. If the pane is not true, the job is not done.

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