Palm Beach County · Wellington, FL
Tropic Glass Enclosures builds custom glass patio enclosures in Wellington, FL, and replaces the cloudy acrylic panels on older Florida rooms with clear glass. Our own trained crews handle every job, and we reply within 24 hours.
Wellington grew fast in the 1980s and '90s, and a lot of the homes from that stretch came with screen rooms. Over the years, many owners closed them in with acrylic or vinyl panels. Two decades on, those panels are yellow, scratched and hard to see through.
There are two common starting points here: replacing tired panels, or enclosing a patio that never had anything on it. We've built glass patio enclosures in Wellington and across Palm Beach County for close to four decades. Here's more about our family business.
Acrylic panels were the budget way to close in a screen room. They keep out rain, mostly. They also haze over in the sun, scratch when you wipe them and bow in the heat.
Acrylic window replacement means pulling those panels and putting real glass in their place. We check the existing frame and roof first. Sometimes they can carry glass. Sometimes they can't, and we'll tell you before you spend a dollar.
Out in Palm Beach Point, Grand Prix Village and the rest of the equestrian preserve, patios tend to be big and the view runs across paddocks and arenas. Custom glass enclosures let you keep that view and lose the horse flies and arena dust.
Wide openings take careful measuring, so every panel is sized on site rather than pulled from a kit. Our page on how we design and build enclosures walks through the process.
From January into spring, the Winter Equestrian Festival fills the show grounds off South Shore Boulevard and Pierson Road, and Forest Hill Boulevard slows to a crawl.
It's also when the weather is best and when guests are in town. Sliding panels let you open the room on a perfect February afternoon and close it when the evening turns cool.
Wellington is a village with its own building department, and most neighborhoods also have an HOA with an architectural review committee. Both have to say yes before work starts.
We provide the measurements and product details for your HOA application and don't order glass until it's approved. Whoever you hire should also show you a state license number and proof of insurance without a fuss, us included.
Wellington is laced with canals and lakes that move water off the land after a storm. Longtime residents still call the system Acme, after the improvement district that ran things before Wellington became a village in 1995. All that water raises mosquitoes from May through October, and the lake lots in Olympia, Village Walk and Wellington's Edge get them first.
Glass keeps the bugs out and the view clear. If you've been typing glass patio enclosures near me while slapping mosquitoes on the back patio, that's exactly what we fix.
Out here there's nothing tall between your patio and the sunset, which is lovely at 7pm and brutal at 4pm. A west-facing enclosure needs the right glass and a plan for the afternoon sun.
We look at which way your patio faces, how deep the roof overhang is and how you plan to use the room, then choose glass to suit. Glass patio enclosures in Wellington that face west get a different spec than ones tucked under a deep east-side roof.
If you're still putting up shutters before every storm, it may be time to deal with the windows too. We're a certified PGT dealer with PGT Gold Status and install hurricane-rated windows and doors with the same in-house crews that build enclosures.
One estimate, one crew and one schedule, instead of juggling two contractors on the same house.
Plenty of Wellington yards have a pool under a screen cage. The cage can stay. What often changes is the wall of the house facing the pool, where old sliders and fixed panels get replaced with glass that opens wide.
If that's the job you're picturing, take a look at the doors that open onto a pool deck we install.
We come up State Road 7 from Boca, look at the space, measure and talk through options. Then we send a quote for your glass patio enclosures in Wellington. Free, and no pressure.
We reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm. Book your estimate when you're ready. If you're still comparing glass patio enclosures near me, ask each company whether the installers are its own employees.
Wellington is on the western side of our service area. We also build in Lake Worth Beach to the east and in Jupiter glass patio projects up north, along with these neighbors.
Royal Palm Beach
Just north across Southern Boulevard.
Greenacres
East along Lake Worth Road and Forest Hill.
West Palm Beach
Northeast, out past the turnpike toward the coast.
Lake Worth Beach
Straight east down Lake Worth Road.
Boynton Beach
Southeast, past the western lake communities.
More general answers about our windows, doors and enclosures are on the FAQ page.
Often, yes. It depends on whether the existing frame and roof can carry the weight of glass. We inspect both at the estimate and tell you what’s possible.
Glass doesn’t yellow or haze in the sun, it resists scratching, and it stays clear for years. Acrylic tends to cloud and bow over time.
Usually both. The Village of Wellington issues the building permit, and most neighborhoods require architectural approval from the HOA. We supply what your HOA needs.
Yes. Sliding panels let you open the room on a nice day and close it for rain, bugs or air conditioning.
Yes. Closed glass keeps out mosquitoes and the smaller insects that slip through screen.
Yes. Every enclosure is measured and designed on site for the space, whatever its size.
No. All of our installers are direct employees, hired for skill and trained by us.
Within 24 hours. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm, at (561) 482-9010.
Call (561) 482-9010 or send the form, and we'll be in touch within 24 hours to schedule a visit.
Whether it's new glass on an open patio or a full enclosure build to replace failing panels, glass patio enclosures in Wellington are built by our own crew from start to finish.
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