01What sets the clock
Three things that extend a timeline here.
- Panel count, not area. Stripping and re-splining each opening is the labour driver; a cage with many small panels takes longer than a cage with fewer large ones of the same total size.
- Gate access. Spring Lake Hills, Country Creek, Bona Vista and Oak Harbour are gated. A crew needs a code or an appointment before the first day, which is a scheduling step a non-gated job in Weathersfield or Barclay Woods does not have.
- Who has to approve the work first. Spring Valley, Spring Lake Hills, Country Creek, Jamestown Village, Oak Harbour, Sandy Cove, Escondido and Bona Vista all have mandatory associations. In Altamonte Heights, where about 74% of units are non-homesteaded, that approval often has to route through a landlord or property manager rather than a resident on site.
Upper panels on a two-storey mansard cage — concentrated in Spring Lake Hills — also add ladder or scaffold setup time that a single-storey ground-level job does not need.