[zcaveman]

The other day I was at Lowe's looking at French doors and found out something interesting.

If you replace an exterior door you are supposed to get a building permit. This is only the exterior door. You do not need a permit for a storm or screen door nor do you need a permit to have Entry Point or whomever put the glass panel in your current exterior door because he is not replacing the door.

I was planning on replacing the slider that goes out to the lanai and he said that was considered an exterior door.

The reason he gave was that during the hurricanes of 2004, a lot of exterior doors did not hold up because they were improperly installed. So now you need a building permit.

Just something I found out and wanted to pass on.