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Therma-Tru Construction in Pompano Beach, FL | Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale
We provide independent Therma-Tru entry door installation, repair, and full construction service across Pompano Beach, from beachside condos to 1960s concrete block homes west of Dixie Highway. What makes our Therma-Tru work different here is simple: we build and flash doors for FEMA high-hazard flood zones, not just hang slabs in a hole. Call (754) 354-3720 for a free estimate, and we’ll tell you exactly what your door opening needs before anyone picks up a tool.
We’re Therma-Tru sales & service specialists in the practical sense. We know the Classic-Craft, Fiber-Classic, Smooth-Star, and Pulse lines well enough to tell you which one belongs on an oceanfront condo and which one belongs on a 1974 ranch house off McNab Road. What we aren’t is a factory-authorized dealer, and we won’t pretend otherwise. You get straight answers about OEM parts, aftermarket upgrades, and what actually holds up when a September squall pushes salt water sideways into your entry.
Why Pompano Beach Residents Choose Us for Therma-Tru Service
Isaac Pruett, our owner at Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale, has spent close to 20 years remodeling across South Florida, including a long stretch running projects in Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods like Victoria Park. The job sites change, but the approach doesn’t: we show up with a name and photo sent to your phone before we arrive, a written price before any work starts, and a 365-Day Done Right Promise on everything we touch. That matters when you’re standing in a condo lobby deciding which stranger to let into your unit.
Our crews know Pompano Beach housing the way you know your own street. Older homes here are mostly concrete block with original framing details that were never meant to hold a modern pre-hung fiberglass door. New builds and high-rise units carry impact-glazing and elevated foundation requirements. We plan around both. Every technician is background-checked, identity-verified, and arrives in a clean marked uniform with a photo ID badge at the door. That’s the Threshold Standard, and it’s not optional.
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Common Therma-Tru Construction Problems We Solve in Pompano Beach
- Fiberglass skin delamination at the bottom rail. On beachside entries, storm surge and tide-driven splash push salt-laden water up against the door sweep, where it wicks into the fiberglass skin and separates it from the core. We see this most on Fiber-Classic and older Classic-Craft units east of A1A. The door looks swollen and feels spongy at the bottom six inches. That’s not cosmetic; the core is drinking.
- Compression weatherstrip hardening and cracking. Pompano Beach gets more UV than most Florida cities because of its east-facing beachfront exposure. Add salt spray, and the weatherstrip on east-facing doors turns brittle in three to five years instead of eight. Once the seal breaks, wind-driven rain from a summer thunderstorm pushes straight past it and puddles inside the threshold.
- Hinge corrosion at the jamb on Fiber-Classic installs. In high-rise condos, hallway pressure systems pull humid, salty air past the door constantly. Hinges that looked fine last year start showing rust blooms and binding. The door itself is fine, but the hinge screws are losing purchase in the jamb. We replace hinges with marine-grade stainless aftermarket hardware and rebuild the screw pockets with epoxy filler so they don’t strip again.
- Rot in the rough opening of 1950s-70s block homes. Therma-Tru frames installed decades ago were often set without proper pan flashing at the bottom. The fiberglass door survives beautifully, but the rough opening framing behind the brickmold picks up moisture every time it rains sideways. In Pompano Beach, where 60-year-old block homes are everywhere, we routinely find the bottom six inches of the rough opening has turned to something you could push a screwdriver through.
- Multipoint lock binding on older Therma-Tru doors. Classic-Craft and early Fiber-Classic units came with multipoint locking systems that bind when the door slab shifts slightly out of alignment. Salt air accelerates the corrosion on the lock’s internal channels. Sometimes we can flush and lubricate them. Sometimes the lock body has to come out and get replaced with the current OEM Therma-Tru part. We’ll tell you which one before we touch it.
Therma-Tru Service in Pompano Beach: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Here’s what nobody tells you about Therma-Tru work in Pompano Beach until they’re standing in your doorway with a tape measure. The city sits inside a coastal high-hazard flood zone, and FEMA’s floodplain construction standards apply to new and replacement exterior doors, not just new construction. A straightforward door swap on a 1962 cottage off SE 13th Court near the Intracoastal isn’t a one-for-one hang. It’s a framed opening with pressure-treated blocking, stainless steel flashing, and sometimes flood vents, depending on the structure’s elevation certificate. On a recent job just off SE 13th Court, we pulled a delaminating Fiber-Classic Oak door where the bottom rail had swelled from tide-driven splash. Behind it, the rough opening rot had spread into the floor joist. We reframed the base with treated lumber, set a new Smooth-Star unit on a stainless pan flashing, reused the owner’s OEM brass cam lock, and finished the job under $2,800. No more water puddling on the travertine after the next king tide. That’s the difference between a door company and a construction crew that understands Pompano Beach.
Therma-Tru Models & Products We Service in Pompano Beach
We install and repair the full Therma-Tru lineup: Classic-Craft Mahogany Collection, Fiber-Classic Oak Collection, Smooth-Star Collection, and the Pulse Series, including the pre-hung multiplex impact-rated option that’s becoming standard in Pompano Beach’s newer condo buildings. For parts, we stock OEM Therma-Tru door shoes, multipoint strike plates, and replacement weatherstrip so we can handle most repairs in one visit. When corrosion is the issue, we switch to marine-grade stainless aftermarket hinges and properly flashed PVC trim, because on this coastline, some factory parts simply weren’t engineered for salt air. If your fiberglass slab is intact with a true match available, we repair. If the delamination runs more than a few inches or the core is waterlogged, a new pre-hung Therma-Tru unit usually costs less than piecemeal labor in Pompano Beach. We’ll show you the math.
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Pricing depends on the door line, whether it’s impact-rated, and what the rough opening needs once we open it up. A standard Fiber-Classic pre-hung replacement with coastal flashing runs $1,800 to $4,500. An impact-rated Smooth-Star with multiplex glass and stainless hinges lands between $2,500 and $6,000. If you’re doing a full Pompano Beach Bathroom Remodeling or kitchen project that includes a new Therma-Tru patio door, plan for $14,000 to $45,000 for the whole project. A home addition with a Therma-Tru entry system and impact-rated side lites starts around $45,000 and can reach $130,000 depending on scope. Every estimate is free, written, and line-itemed. You’ll know exactly what we’re doing and what it costs before we start. Call (754) 354-3720 to schedule a walkthrough.
| Therma-Tru Service | Price Range |
|---|---|
| Fiber-Classic pre-hung door replacement (entry, with coastal flashing) | $1,800 – $4,500 |
| Impact-rated Smooth-Star door with multiplex glass and stainless steel hinges | $2,500 – $6,000 |
| Complete kitchen remodel including new Therma-Tru exterior door to patio | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Home addition with Therma-Tru entry system and impact-rated side lites | $45,000 – $130,000 |
Serving Pompano Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Pompano Beach area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – Therma-Tru Construction in Pompano Beach
No. If your Therma-Tru door has any glass in it, the glazing must be impact-rated or protected by an approved shutter system to meet Pompano Beach’s wind load requirements under the Florida Building Code. A solid fiberglass slab without glass typically passes wind load standards because the material itself holds up, but the door assembly, hinges, and anchoring have to meet code too. We’ll check your specific opening and tell you what’s required. Call (754) 354-3720 for a code-specific assessment.
It’s almost always water wicking up from storm runoff or irrigation spray hitting the bottom rail, then sitting against the door sweep. In Pompano Beach, even homes west of Federal Highway get enough humidity and heavy summer rain for this to happen. The fiberglass skin delaminates once water penetrates the edge seal. Check your sweep and weatherstrip, and if the swelling is more than a few inches up the slab, replacement is usually cheaper than repair. Call (754) 354-3720 for an honest look.
In most cases we can replace the weatherstrip. The compression seal on Classic-Craft doors is a replaceable OEM part, and if the door slab itself is sound, fresh weatherstrip restores the seal. The catch is that on Pompano Beach’s east-facing entries, the weatherstrip channel may be so UV-damaged and brittle that the new strip won’t seat properly. We’ll inspect the channel first. Call (754) 354-3720 and describe the door; we’ll tell you if this is a parts job or a replacement job.
It’s a factory part. Therma-Tru doors from that era used proprietary multipoint lock bodies that generic locksmiths often can’t source or calibrate. We stock OEM Therma-Tru multipoint strike plates and lock channels, and we can tell you whether the binding is from salt-air corrosion inside the channel, a shifted door slab, or a failing lock body. Sometimes it’s a thirty-minute adjustment. Sometimes the lock body has to come out. Call (754) 354-3720 to schedule a look.
Yes. Pompano Beach requires a building permit for exterior door replacement, especially if the door is in a high-hazard flood zone or if the rough opening framing will be altered. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection, and make sure the flashing, anchors, and flood-resistant construction details pass the first time. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll handle the paperwork.
Service Areas Near Pompano Beach
In addition to serving all of Pompano Beach service area, we run Therma-Tru service into neighboring cities. You’ll find us regularly working in Fort Lauderdale, where our main office sits at Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale. We also cover Therma-Tru service in Davie, Therma-Tru service in Fort Lauderdale, Sunrise, and Wilton Manors. If you’re close to any of those, the same crew, pricing, and warranty apply.
Book Your Therma-Tru Service in Pompano Beach Today
Need a Therma-Tru door fixed, flashed, or fully replaced? We’ll send a background-checked technician with a written price and a straight answer. Call (754) 354-3720 to schedule your free estimate.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner at Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale, serving Pompano Beach since 2004.
