Homeowners across South Florida are making a painful—and expensive—mistake with their hurricane protection: hiring one contractor for windows and doors and a completely different company for the roof. Bigfoot Windows & Roofing’s “$60,000 hurricane window mistake” story shows exactly how this two-contractor trap can turn a simple project into a legal, structural, and financial nightmare.
The Two-Contractor Trap
When you hire one company for impact windows and another for roofing, no one is truly in charge of the full system that protects your home. Timelines clash, communication breaks down, and when something goes wrong, the only thing that moves quickly is the finger-pointing.
- Contractors blame each other for scratched doors, cracked driveways, broken tiles, and blown timelines.
- Homeowners end up stuck in the middle, living in a construction zone with an unfinished project and no clear accountability.
The Plywood Nightmare No One Warns You About
Most window-only companies are not licensed or equipped to handle structural issues when they open up your walls or roof line. As soon as they hit a damaged truss, a compromised header, or a structural opening that is not built to current code, they stop—and leave you with a problem.
- The job stalls, your opening gets covered with plywood and a few tapcons, and you are told to “go find a contractor” for this “small project.”
- General contractors focused on large additions and renovations rarely want to pull off their crews for a single opening, so you can spend weeks or months calling around just to get someone to show up.
The $60,000 Coral Gables Window Disaster
One Coral Gables homeowner learned the hard way what happens when the window company does not understand local building rules. The contractor ordered a full house worth of square impact windows, assuming the city would allow them to square off the home’s arched openings.
- Coral Gables’ building department refused to approve the installation, since the new windows did not match the existing arched structural openings.
- The contractor refunded the labor but kept the cost of the materials, leaving the homeowner stuck with around $60,000 worth of windows that legally could not be installed.
A company that understands structural openings and local code—like Bigfoot—would never have sold that package in the first place.
One Team, One Timeline, One Warranty
Bigfoot Windows & Roofing was built specifically to avoid this chaos by handling everything in-house under one roof and one license. The company installs impact windows that stop hurricanes and break-ins, tight-sealing hurricane-rated doors, and roofing systems engineered to meet the latest Florida Building Code—all with coordinated scheduling and oversight.
- A licensed general contractor on the team can address structural issues such as damaged trusses, compromised headers, or modified openings without shutting the job down.
- Delays still happen when structural surprises pop up, but they are controlled delays with clear expectations, defined timelines, and zero last-minute scrambling for another contractor.
White-Glove Communication From Start to Finish
What truly separates Bigfoot from the “two-contractor” model is how the team communicates through every phase of the project. Homeowners always know what is happening, when it is happening, and who is responsible for each step.
- No ghosting, no dodged calls, and no confusion about whether it is the roofer’s fault or the window guy’s problem.
- Hundreds of South Florida families have already upgraded their homes using this one-contractor, total-protection approach, enjoying less stress and more confidence when the next storm season rolls in.
If you are planning impact windows, doors, or a new roof anywhere from Homestead to the Palm Beaches, choosing one expert team to own the entire project is the safest way to protect your home and your budget. Bigfoot Windows & Roofing offers free, professional estimates so you can see exactly what “one team, one timeline, one warranty, zero finger-pointing” looks like for your home.