Company Goal

Hurricane Protection Solution & Blinds, LLC, traces its origins from Joe Luis Interiors Corporation, specialized in enhancing interior spaces with a wide range of window decoration products, from curtains and blinds to carpets and flooring.

For over two decades, their unwavering dedication to customers led to the sale and installation of countless interior decoration products, spanning from the early 80s to the early 2000s.

With a decade of dedicated service, Hurricane Protection Solution & Blinds, LLC, has proudly become a family business, serving all Florida. With a wealth of experience and a track record of successful installations, we're your main source for interior window decoration and exterior hurricane protection needs for Florida's families and businesses.

HPS & Blinds, LLC's products are prepared to suit your unique requirements, whether it's for a balcony, a high building, a garage, or a location exposed to salty winds. Our extensive experience ensures we can provide the solution you need.

Project Management Summary

Step 1

Appointment Schedule:

All quotations are for free. Make the first step and schedule today.

All quotes are sent electronically for your comfort for approval.
All in site meetings are scheduled on weekends and week days.
If you already have the measures from edge to edge, width and height:
- Simply email the information to info@hpssouthfl.com, or call a representative at 407-743-2143 to get a quick quote.
  - Include Pictures if Possible.

Project Management

Step 2

Our personnel will take all possible measures from the exterior
- We will take all opening measures in the site or just the ones expected if indicated.
- We will take pictures of each opening to determine the logistics for the installation, and quoting reference.
We will show our samples and give project advice and logistics in person or via call from one of our experts after analyzing the setting and units.
- For difficult locations to reach, measures will be recorded in reference to other openings and site structures.
  - We are confident on our trained personnel, and all prices are final, excluding non-listed units at the quote.
  - When necessary, due to lack of reference, we will ask for permission to get the measures from the inside.
  - Measures recorded inside will get additional 4" Wide and 4" Height, for average difference on exterior dimensions.

On Site Quotation:

Quotation Review

Step 3

The quote link will be shared via text message and through the e-mail provided.
- Expect your quote to be ready within a week, including weekends and holidays.
All projects include:
- Help on permitting forms fill up and submission, if required or requested by the owners (Even if not specified, this is a free service we offer to expedite the week of installation).
  - May include HOA Approval and City's Building Permitting.
    - If a general contractor is required, or you are requesting one, or you have doubts about contracting one for your project, please refer to your representative for further help as all projects differ on this requisite.
- Individual unit prices, including:
  - Material
  - Manufacture Labor.
  - Delivery: Pick-up, Storage, Gas, Moving.
  - Installation: Clean-Up & In site adaptations: To modify units for installations if needed.
    - Setting adaptations: Jobs that require site modifications to meet installation requirements (Quoted Apart i).
      - This type of jobs can be done by us, the Company, or a third party the Customer opts to.
  - Active season discounts are added automatically.
  - Taxes.
All quotations have an acceptance due date of 30 days minimum once sent for approval.
- You can request an updated quote, requesting changes or revisions. We are here to assist you.
  - Be aware that prices may vary along the time.
You accept and acknowledge this policies version, marked by your quote date of acceptance, once the quote is approved and once the first payment has been cleared.
- It is your right to request formal contract regarding the discussed terms in your quote agreement.
- Please read our polices, and ask questions as needed to clarify any doubts, we want to be transparent to avoid misunderstandings.
- All previous polices versions are posted for the parties' convenience.

Step 4

Documentation

Along the project process, the assigned installer will take the measures to assure the manufacturing unit dimensions.
Meanwhile, once the process on the permitting for the project has been secured, the manufacture will start.
- Sometimes, owners prefer to do the permits on their own methods.
  - We will provide the notice of acceptance (NOA), as well as a sketch plan, in between other documents.
  - We will help on filling the documents from the city and share them back to you for submission.
- All notary sessions are included.
  - However, you can notarize the documents on the city building if required, or by other mediations as preferred.
- Make sure you have a recorded notice of commencement for projects over $5,000.00 or as required by the project address' city.
If you require a general contractor mandated by your HOA or requested by you, we charge a $500.00 fee for the service.

First, we will fill out the permitting documents for the homeowner association.
- Once filled, signed, and submitted, you will only have to clear the fees (if any), and wait for the approval.
- From the side of homeowner associations, in rare occasions they charge fees.
- It is most likely a required resubmission so that the HOA states requested inclusions in the project to be accepted.
  - Once approved, the HOA may request the issuance of a building permitting.
Once the homeowner association has approved the project installation, we will proceed with the building permitting (If required or requested).
- At this point, depending on the project and city instructions for inspection we can proceed to install, or wait until the necessary documents submitted to schedule an initial inspection, as some cities prefer to monitor the installation process whereas other cities simply send inspectors to check the finished work.
Each city process the paperwork at different time rates, tending to forward the paperwork from one office to another until the paperwork is reviewed, signed, and filled.
The number of inspections depends on the establishment's city.
- Fees must be cleared by owners to proceed with inspections.
- We will facilitate the online link portal to clear the fees.
Inspectors from the respective establishment's city will assist to check only the work stated in the contract with a respective Notice of Commencement.
The final inspection is not part of the installation process, and the final payment must be done by the end of the installation.
- You are backed up with a 10-year warranty on labor and parts.
- Interior and decorative products warranty varies.
- Interior and decorative products do not need permitting of any kind.
It is HPS & Blinds, LLC's duty to keep working at your side until all documentation required and linked to the project related to the contract has been approved.

If We Handle the Required Permitting

Our Side

Owners Responsibilities

If HPS & Blinds, LLC handles the permitting partially or totally, you simply:
- Sign in the necessary paperwork.
- Assist at the notary when needed.
- Have all given paperwork and document package ready on the inspection date.
- Wait for updates, as we deal in the whole process with the city and submit documents physically when needed and when requested.
- Clear the building and homeowner association permit fees (Fees vary).
For Commercial, building permitting is invoiced apart from the installation project.
You do not need a general contractor for Accordion Shutters or Roll-down Shutters, at least explicitly requested by your homeowners association
You need a general contractor for Impact Windows, as it counts as a structural change.
You do not need building permitting for Storm Panels, only a HOA notice if within an HOA.

Your Side

Step 6

Installation:

The installation process starts the moment each respective opening unit product is delivered to our personnel.
Once the HOA approval is finished (if applicable), and the city has issued a permit number (if applicable), the installation will start, sometimes at a side of inspections.
Products such as accordion shutters, manual roll-down shutters with exterior crank, and storm panels are installed from the outside of the establishments, except impact doors, impact windows, and electric roll-down shutters, due to the removal of regular windows and the finish that must be done to the frames, and some product installations in high buildings.
- Delays on installation are normally related to weather, since our workers make use of plugs and mechanical equipment for a faster and precise installation to keep at margin with the Florida Building Code.
- In case of present rain, the installation will be postponed as soon as possible during the day or the next available day, according to the weather (weather.gov).
- In case of weather alerts, it will be postponed the next available week the alert has ceased.
After assuring every unit is functional, and the site has been cleaned, the customer will give the down payment, which is normally the 50% balance of the total payment according to the agreed quote.
- We encourage our crew members to show that every unit works properly and check that each unit has a unique metal sticker, that certifies the product functionality under the Florida Building Code.
We will take pictures of the openings before and after the installation process to record the structure changes.
Finally, we will provide the customer with all the project documentation, as well as the e-receipt for the final payment.

Inspections:

An inspector from the respective establishment's city will assist to check only the installed products stated in the contract, matching the plans submitted.
- Otherwise, changes will be arranged as instructed by the inspector and this step will be rescheduled.
- Once the inspection is done, will notify once approved and posted online at the respective city building office website.
Finished the final inspection:
- The establishment's owners are required to give maintenance to the units at least twice a year in order to maintain their 10-year warranty available.
If the establishment's owners need any paperwork for the regarding site insurance, we will prepare a document package to be delivered by postal mail to the worksite address.
- We can help you to submit this information at no additional cost.

Step 7