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Roll-up doors, measured to the opening
Rolling steel service doors, insulated curtains, counter shutters, security grilles and wind-rated coiling doors for commercial properties across Miami-Dade. Measured on site, specified to the approval your opening needs, installed to the detail that approval lists.
Book a site measure
Give us the opening and we will tell you what it needs. A dispatcher calls you back.
Why Miami-Dade is different
In this county, the door is only half the specification. The approval is the other half.
Miami-Dade sits inside Florida's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Exterior openings here are held to the strictest product approval regime in the country, and a coiling door is an exterior opening on most of the buildings we work on: warehouses in Medley, self storage off the Palmetto, loading bays in Doral, storefronts in Hialeah.
What that means in practice is that a roll-up door for a Miami-Dade opening needs to carry a current Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and it has to be anchored the way that approval says. Fastener spacing that differs from the listing voids the approval on a product that otherwise passed every test. That is the detail that turns a finished installation into a failed inspection.
So we measure first, specify second, and order third. If the opening turns out to need a rating you were not expecting, you hear it at the site visit rather than on inspection day. Access Experts 247 has been fitting doors and gates in South Florida since 2009, and you can see the work in our recent projects.
Hurricane zone approval
What a wind-rated door has to survive first
Before a coiling door can be installed on an exterior opening here, the product has to pass three tests in sequence. Take a hit, hold pressure, then survive thousands of reversals.
| Protocol | What it is | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| TAS 201 | Large missile impact | A 9 lb 2x4 fired at the product at 50 feet per second, simulating wind-borne debris. |
| TAS 202 | Uniform static air pressure | Steady positive and negative pressure applied to verify structural performance. |
| TAS 203 | Cyclic wind pressure | The impacted specimen then survives 9,000 alternating pressure cycles. |
| Miami-Dade NOA | Required inside the county | Product-specific approval issued by Miami-Dade Product Control after TAS testing. |
| Florida Product Approval | Not sufficient here | An FL number alone is not accepted inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. |
| Approved installation details | Match them exactly | Different anchors or fastener spacing than the listing voids the approval. |
What we install
Coiling doors, by what the opening does
Rolling steel service doors
The standard commercial coiling door: interlocking steel slats, guides, barrel and hood. Specified by opening size, duty cycle and wind load rather than by catalogue page.
Insulated rolling doors
Foam-filled slats where the opening separates conditioned space from outside air. Worth the premium on cold storage and any opening feeding an air-conditioned area.
Rolling sheet doors
A single curtain rather than interlocking slats. Lighter and less expensive, suited to self storage and low-cycle openings. For an opening cycling all day, look at high-speed doors instead.
Counter shutters
Pharmacy windows, concession stands, cashier counters and service bars. Small openings, often with a fire rating attached to them.
Security grilles
Open-air closure for mall storefronts and parking structures, where you need the opening secured but visible and ventilated.
Wind-rated and fire-rated curtains
Coiling doors carrying a Miami-Dade NOA for wind load, or a fire label for openings in a rated wall. Two different approvals, sometimes on the same opening. Related work: hurricane and wind-rated gates.
The site measure
Six things we record before quoting
A coiling door is manufactured to your opening. These are the numbers that decide what gets built, and getting one of them wrong is expensive after the door ships.
Opening width and height
Measured to the finished masonry, not to the old door. Old doors are frequently the wrong size for the opening they sit in.
Headroom
The space above the opening for the barrel and hood. Headroom decides whether a standard mounting works or the door needs a different configuration.
Side room
Clearance either side for the guides and, on a motor-operated door, for the operator itself.
Mounting condition
Face of wall or between jambs. This changes the door size, the anchors and the approved installation detail.
Duty cycle
How many times a day the opening actually cycles. A door specified for ten cycles a day fails early on an opening that runs eighty.
Power and controls
Chain hoist or motor operator, voltage available at the opening, and where the controls, safety edge and photo eyes need to land. On a dock opening this is planned alongside the leveler.
How the job runs
Measure, specify, permit, install
- 01
Site measure
Opening, headroom, side room, mounting condition and power, recorded on site. We do not quote a coiling door from a phone description.
- 02
Specification and approval
Door type, wind rating and, where the opening requires it, a product carrying a current Miami-Dade NOA with installation details that match your condition.
- 03
Permit and lead time
Coiling doors are ordered to the opening, so there is a manufacturing lead time. We tell you what it is before you commit, not after.
- 04
Install and commission
Curtain, guides, barrel, hood, operator, safety edge and photo eyes, set up, cycled and handed over with the approval paperwork.
What goes wrong
The installations we get called to fix
The replacement door does not fit the opening
Because it was ordered to match the old door instead of the masonry. Measuring the opening is the first step for a reason.
The product approval does not cover the installation
The NOA lists approved sizes, design pressures and installation details. Anchoring it differently than the listing voids the approval, and that surfaces at inspection.
An expired NOA on the label
Approvals expire and are renewed. A number on a label is not proof of a current approval. Status is worth checking before the product is ordered.
A door specified below its real duty cycle
The cheapest curtain on a high-traffic opening costs more over three years than the right one did on day one, and it turns into recurring roll-up door repair.
No safety edge or photo eyes on a motorised door
A powered door closing on a vehicle or a person is the failure nobody plans for.
A fire-rated door with no inspection record
The label is only half of it. NFPA 80 also expects the annual test and the written record.
Where we work
Roll-up door installation across Miami-Dade
Warehouse, retail, self storage and industrial openings, dispatched from two South Florida locations. We also cover Broward and Palm Beach. Get in touch if you are not sure whether you are in range.
- Doral
- Hialeah
- Medley
- Miami Gardens
- Opa-locka
- Downtown Miami
- Kendall
- Homestead
- Miami Beach
- North Miami Beach
- Cutler Bay
- Countywide Miami-Dade
Questions
Before you order a door
Do I need a permit to replace a roll-up door in Miami-Dade?
Assume yes and confirm with the county. Florida does not offer the like-for-like replacement exemption that some states allow, so a door that matches the original size and material still generally requires a permit. Miami-Dade sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, which layers product-approval requirements on top of the statewide code. Permitting also protects you after a storm, because an unpermitted opening is exactly what an insurer looks for when a claim is filed. Start with the Miami-Dade permitting requirements.
What is a Miami-Dade NOA, and does my door need one?
A Notice of Acceptance is a product-specific approval issued by Miami-Dade Product Control after the product passes the county test protocols: TAS 201 large missile impact, where a 9 pound 2x4 is fired at the product at 50 feet per second, TAS 202 uniform static air pressure, and TAS 203 cyclic wind pressure over 9,000 alternating cycles. Exterior openings in the hurricane zone need product carrying that approval. An interior opening between two conditioned spaces is a different conversation, and we will tell you which one you are having. Approvals are issued and published by Miami-Dade Product Control.
We already have a Florida Product Approval number. Is that enough?
Not inside Miami-Dade. Florida Product Approval, the statewide FL number system, is accepted outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Miami-Dade and Broward sit inside it, and a statewide approval alone is not accepted here. The approvals are also not interchangeable in the other direction in the way people assume, so it is worth confirming which one your product actually holds before it ships.
How often does a fire-rated rolling door have to be tested?
Annually. NFPA 80 requires fire door assemblies to be inspected and tested at least once a year, with a written record signed and kept available for the authority having jurisdiction. Rolling steel fire doors are drop tested twice at that annual test: once to confirm operation and full closure, then again after reset to confirm the automatic-closing device reset correctly. Average closing speed has to fall between 6 and 24 inches per second. Recent editions of the standard also expect the test to be carried out by a trained rolling steel fire door technician rather than by general maintenance staff. DASMA publishes the drop test procedure and form.
How long does a roll-up door installation take?
The installation itself is usually a day for a single standard opening. The lead time in front of it is the part worth planning around, because coiling doors are manufactured to the opening rather than pulled off a shelf, and a wind-rated or fire-rated curtain takes longer than a standard one. We give you the lead time with the quote so the opening is not sitting open while you wait.
Related services
Other openings we handle
Book a site measure
Opening, headroom, side room, mounting condition and power, recorded on site. You get the specification, the approval position and the lead time before anything is ordered.