Frequently asked questions.

Yes. Replacement windows require a permit and inspection in both cities. The Florida Building Code treats replacement windows as a change to the building envelope, which makes the work permitted and inspected work, not a same day swap.

Escambia County covers Pensacola, Cantonment and Molino. Santa Rosa County covers Pace and Milton. They run separate permitting offices with their own fee schedules and inspection scheduling, which is why quoted timelines differ between the two.

Built by Deel pulls the permit and meets the inspector. It is part of the job, not paperwork you chase.

It depends on where the house sits. Much of Escambia and Santa Rosa County falls inside Florida's wind-borne debris region, where code requires openings to be either impact-rated or protected by approved shutters. Homes further inland may not be required to.

Built by Deel checks your address against the county wind-speed map before quoting, so you are not paying for a rating you do not need or getting caught short at inspection.

Often, yes. Florida insurers offer wind mitigation credits for approved opening protection, applied after a wind mitigation inspection.

How much you save depends on your carrier and the rest of the home. Roof shape, deck attachment and roof-to-wall connections all factor into the same inspection. Built by Deel hands you the Florida product approval documentation your inspector needs.

We cannot promise a specific number. Your carrier sets that.

There are two clocks, and most of the wait is manufacturing. Impact-rated units are built to your exact opening sizes, so they are ordered, not pulled off a shelf.

Installation itself is usually a matter of days for a typical home, depending on how many openings there are and whether any framing or buck repair turns up once the old unit comes out.

You get both dates in writing before we start.

It comes down to five things: the number of openings, their sizes, frame material, whether the units are impact-rated, and what we find behind the old window once it is out.

Anyone quoting a firm price before seeing the openings is guessing. Built by Deel measures, prices the actual job, and gives you an itemized number after the walkthrough. Free, with no obligation and no four hour in-home presentation.

Yes, and older Gulf Coast homes are where most of the surprises live.

Openings go out of square as a house settles, and the buck or framing around them can hide rot that only shows up when the old unit comes out. Built by Deel checks the opening before ordering and repairs what it finds, rather than shimming a new window into bad framing and calling it done.

Yes. Exterior doors, patio doors and sliding glass doors are the same scope as windows. Measured, ordered and installed the same way, with the same permitting and impact-rating considerations.

Yes. Built by Deel handles high-end window and door packages for partnering custom home builders across the Gulf Coast. On those projects the scope is the fenestration package specifically, not general contracting for the whole build.