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CGI Window Installation: The Pompano Beach Owner’s Guide

CGI window installation in Pompano Beach typically runs between $850 and $1,900 per window for a full-frame impact replacement, depending on the series you have and whether the opening needs any masonry or stucco repair. Most homeowners call us when the glass itself is fine but the frame, seal, or hardware has given out, and yes, we can usually get the window swapped the same week. What you’re dealing with is almost never the glass first. It’s the seal, the roller track, the latch, or the frame corner where salt air and afternoon sun have been working for ten or fifteen years.

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Here’s the picture we see most often: you bought a CGI product because a hurricane was coming or your old builder-grade windows fogged over. It worked for years. Then one afternoon you notice the window doesn’t close with that solid thunk anymore, or there’s water staining the drywall under the sill, or the latch pops open when you lean on it. That’s the day you start searching for someone who actually understands the product you already own, not someone who wants to sell you eight new windows before looking at the one that failed.

Which CGI Models This Applies To

We install and repair parts for the CGI product lines you’re most likely to find in Pompano Beach homes built or remodeled after about 2005: the Estate Collection, the Estate Single-Hung, the Estate Casement, and the Sentinel Series. We also see a good number of older CGI commercial-grade frames on condo buildings along A1A and in Leisureville, where the original installer is long gone and the association just wants it fixed correctly.

The compatibility gotcha with CGI windows is this: the manufacturer stamps a production code on the aluminum frame edge, usually near the bottom left corner, and that code tells you the exact glass thickness, the frame depth, and the hardware generation. Two CGI single-hung windows that look identical from the street can be two different glass packages, one rated for 150 mph winds and one rated for 170. You can’t mix hardware between them. If a handyman offers to “make it fit” without reading the production code, walk away. On our side, we match the OEM part when it’s still available, which it usually is for frames under 20 years old. When CGI discontinued a line, we source a spec-equivalent aftermarket part that matches the pressure rating and the finish, and we tell you which one we’re using before we order it.

We’re an independent service provider, by the way. We’re not affiliated with CGI. We choose to work on their products because they build a frame worth saving, and because we stock the most common replacement hardware for CGI, PGT, CWS, and ES Windows on our trucks.

Signs Your CGI Window Installation Is Failing

• Condensation or fog between the glass panes. The argon gas seal has failed. Once the seal lets Gulf Coast humidity in, the insulated glass unit is done. You can’t reseal it, and silicone around the outside won’t fix it. The fix is a new sash or a new window.
• The window drops or won’t stay open. On a single-hung, that’s the block and tackle balance system wearing out. On a casement, it’s the crank gear stripping. These are the most common failure points on CGI windows in Pompano Beach because the salt air corrodes the metal springs faster than anything inland.
• You can hear wind whistling through a closed window. That’s the weatherstripping compressing or the frame corner separating. It’s also your hurricane protection quietly becoming a screen door. In Pompano Beach, we take that personally.
• The latch won’t fully turn or the handle feels loose. CGI multi-point locks are sturdy, but they have moving parts. Ten years of daily use and a little corrosion means they bind, then they snap. The window still looks fine, but it won’t seal or lock.
• Water stains or peeling paint below the sill. The weep holes in the frame are clogged, or the caulk joint failed. Water gets in, sits in the track, and eventually rots whatever the frame is sitting on. On a concrete block home this is a mold source; on a wood-frame home it’s a rot repair you didn’t plan for.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For a full CGI window installation in Pompano Beach, here’s what we quote on a typical job:

What drives the range is mostly size, series availability, and whether we’re reusing the existing buck or tearing back to the rough opening. We give you a written line-item estimate before work starts, not a number we make up on a clipboard. Every CGI installation we do carries the workmanship side of our 36500-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we make it right, period. That’s not marketing language. That’s Ed Winslow’s name on the invoice.

Your existing CGI frame might not need a full replacement at all. If the glass is intact and the frame is square, replacing the failed hardware or the sash can cost a third of what a full window runs. We’ll tell you the truth. We make less on the repair, but we keep a customer for life, and that math works better in a town this size.

DIY or Call Us?

Things you can safely do before calling: wipe down the track, clear the weep holes with a soft brush, and look for the production code on the frame edge so you can read it to us over the phone. That’s about where the safe do-it-yourself part ends on these windows.

Here’s the honest problem with DIY on a CGI impact window: the parts that fail are under tension or sealed. The balance system on a single-hung stores enough energy to do real damage if it releases wrong. The insulated glass unit can’t be resealed, only replaced, and the replacement needs to be pressure-rated for your exact frame or you’ve downgraded your hurricane protection without knowing it. A handyman can make a window that opens and closes. Making a CGI window that still meets its wind load rating is a different job. We’ve fixed plenty of DIY attempts in Pompano Beach, in Cypress Cove, in Garden Isles, in Harbor Village. The repair usually costs more than the original fix would have. If you’re not sure what you’re looking at, call (904) 893-3309 and describe what you see. If we can sort it over the phone with no truck roll, we will.

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