Palm Beach County · Delray Beach, FL
Tropic Glass Enclosures designs and installs glass patio enclosures in Delray Beach, FL, from Lake Ida bungalows to villas west of Military Trail. We are family-run, based a few miles south in Boca Raton, and our own crews do every bit of the work.
Delray is really two towns. East of I-95 you get Atlantic Avenue, the historic districts and older homes on small lots. West of it you get the big age-restricted communities, Kings Point, High Point, the Villages of Oriole, where nearly every villa has a screened Florida room out back.
Both halves call us for the same reason. The porch gets wet, buggy and hot, and nobody uses it. We've spent close to four decades fixing that with glass patio enclosures in Delray Beach and across Palm Beach County, and you can read how the family business got started if you want the background.
The typical villa in Kings Point or High Point came with an aluminum screen room. It made sense in the 1970s. Today the screen is torn, the frame is chalky, and a summer storm puts water on the floor most afternoons.
Swapping screen for glass turns that space into an enclosed patio you can actually use. We measure each bay of the existing room, check whether the roof and framing can carry glass, and tell you straight if they can't.
Plenty of people want to convert a patio to a sunroom but don't want to lose the feeling of sitting outside. Sliding panels handle that. Open them on a dry February afternoon, close them when the clouds stack up to the west in July.
If you plan to air-condition the room, tell us at the estimate. A cooled room is treated differently under the Florida Building Code than an open porch, and the glass, framing and permit all change with it.
Most west Delray communities are run by associations, and a sunroom conversion goes through architectural review before anything is ordered. Boards care about frame color, glass tint and whether your unit still matches the rest of the building.
We can supply measurements, drawings and product information for your application. Get the approval in hand first. Ordering glass and then waiting on a board is how projects stall for months.
The door between your living room and the patio does a lot of work. In older Delray homes it's often a sliding glass door that drags, leaks at the bottom track and won't lock properly.
If that door is due, we can replace it during the same project. We install doors and windows for Delray homes as a certified PGT dealer with PGT Gold Status, using the same crew that builds the enclosure.
Around downtown, a good part of Delray sits inside local historic districts: Old School Square, Del-Ida Park, the Marina district along the Intracoastal. Exterior changes there can need review by the city before a permit is issued.
The good news is that most rear patios aren't visible from the street. We still check your address against the district maps first, and we design glass patio enclosures in Delray Beach to suit the house, whether it's a 1930s frame cottage or a 1950s block home.
Delray is one of the few towns around here where A1A runs right along the sand, with nothing built between the road and the water. Drive it with the windows down and you can taste the salt. That same salt ends up on every frame and hinge east of the Intracoastal.
For homes and condos near the beach, we pick framing finishes and hardware with that exposure in mind and show you the quick freshwater rinse that keeps them in shape. If your house windows are taking the same beating, we handle windows as well.
Lake Ida, the golf course communities and every retention pond out west mean standing water, and standing water means mosquitoes from May into October. A screen keeps the big ones out. It does nothing about sideways rain.
Glass patio enclosures in Delray Beach stay dry, stay clean and stay usable after dark. If you've been searching patio enclosures near me because the porch is unusable half the year, this is the fix.
Inside city limits, permits go through the City of Delray Beach. A lot of the big western communities, Kings Point among them, sit in unincorporated Palm Beach County even with a Delray Beach mailing address, so the county handles those.
We sort out which applies during the estimate. Whoever you hire should give you their state license number and proof of insurance up front, and we're no exception.
We're based just south of you in Boca, so the trip up Military Trail or Federal Highway to your house is a short one. We look at the space, measure, talk through glass and screen options and send a quote. The estimate is free, and there's no pressure. Browse the enclosure styles we build before we come out if you want ideas.
Call during office hours, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm, or book an estimate online. We reply within 24 hours. When you compare patio enclosures near me, ask who will actually be on your property. With us, it's always our own employees.
Delray sits between our home base and the northern half of the county. We also build glass patio enclosures in West Palm Beach, and our Boynton Beach enclosure and window page covers the city just north of you. These nearby towns are in our service area too.
Boca Raton
Our home base, just south on Federal Highway.
Highland Beach
The barrier island strip south along A1A, mostly condos.
Boynton Beach
Directly north, with its own mix of lake communities and coastal homes.
Lantana
A little further north, a small town with older houses.
Lake Worth Beach
Up the coast past Lantana, full of cottages and porches.
If yours isn't here, our full list of questions may cover it. Or just call.
Often, yes. It depends on whether the existing roof and framing can support glass and on your association’s rules. We inspect the structure at the estimate and tell you what’s possible.
Yes. Inside city limits the City of Delray Beach issues it. Many western communities are in unincorporated Palm Beach County, where the county does. We confirm which one applies at the estimate.
Yes. Sliding panels let you open the room on a nice day and close it for storms or air conditioning.
Mostly how you use it. An enclosed patio keeps out rain and bugs. A sunroom you air-condition is treated as living space under the building code, which changes the glass and the permit.
Most associations allow them, with rules on color and style. Get architectural approval before ordering. We can supply the details your board needs.
Yes. We install doors and windows too, as a certified PGT dealer with PGT Gold Status, with our own crews.
Yes. We come out, measure and send a quote with no obligation.
Our own employees. We don’t subcontract, and everyone on your job is hired for skill and trained by us.
Call (561) 482-9010 or fill out the form, and we'll be in touch within 24 hours to schedule a visit.
We've spent close to four decades building patio enclosures across the county, and glass patio enclosures in Delray Beach are a short drive from home for us.
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