VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door

VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door in Orlando, FL | Westlight Windows Orlando

An arched entryway changes the whole conversation between a home and the street. The VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door is a CNC-bent aluminum door system fabricated to the exact radius and rise your opening demands, whether that’s a soft eyebrow curve over a mid-century ranch in College Park or a full gothic arch on a custom build in Winter Park. Westlight Windows Orlando is the authorized installation partner for ViewLux in Orlando, FL, which means you get the product and the installer under one accountable roof. Call (850) 493-7894 to talk through your opening dimensions, and we’ll get you a written quote.

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Product Overview – VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door

Most door manufacturers work in rectangles. Straight lines are efficient to extrude, cheap to ship, and easy to install. The VLX 100 series exists because some openings refuse to cooperate, and frankly, those are usually the openings worth keeping. A true arched entryway gives a home a sense of arrival that a standard door simply cannot match.

The frame is bent from extruded aluminum on a CNC bender that holds tolerances across the entire curve. That matters more than you’d think. Hand-bent aluminum drifts; a door that fits the template at the shop but not the rough opening on site is a problem no installer can fix well. CNC bending means the arc is consistent, the miters land where they should, and the door slab swings true from day one.

Profile width is 2.56 inches with a wall thickness of 0.098 inches. That’s a robust cross-section for a door that has to carry a curved glass lite. Because the VLX 100 is custom fabricated to order, we’ve installed it on openings as narrow as a single-door side entry and as wide as a double-door front elevation. If you can describe the curve, we can build it.

In Orlando, we see these doors on Mediterranean revival homes in Baldwin Park, mid-century homes in Delaney Park where the original arched door rotted out decades ago, and new-build moderns in Lake Nona where the architect specified a clean aluminum arch instead of a traditional wood or steel unit. The aluminum handles our humidity without warping, our afternoon thunderstorms without rusting, and our sun without fading. That’s the practical argument. The aesthetic one sells itself.

Technical Specifications

• Profile system: Extruded aluminum, CNC-bent to the customer’s specified arch radius and rise
• Frame wall thickness: 0.098″
• Profile width: 2.56″
• Maximum span: Custom fabricated to order – no stock shape restrictions
• Glass options: Clear, Frosted, Obscure, Low-E, Tempered, Laminated (impact-rated option available)
• Finish options: Premium Black, Pure White, Anodized Silver, Bronze, Champagne, Teak Wood
• Thermal performance: Thermal break technology, NFRC-rated
• Installation standard: AAMA 2400/2410 compliant, AAMA 812 foam sealant on all perimeter joints
• Hardware: Multi-point locking available; standard hardware specified per project

Performance Features

Thermal Efficiency – The VLX 100 carries a thermal break that separates the interior and exterior aluminum faces. This interrupts conductive heat transfer through the frame, which matters in Orlando where the air outside is hot and humid for six months out of the year. NFRC-rated performance data is available for your specific glass package, and pairing the frame with a Low-E lite brings the whole assembly’s U-factor down substantially.

Acoustic Performance – Aluminum is dense, and a properly sealed unit does real work against outside noise. For homes on busy corridors like Colonial Drive or near the flight path in the Conway area, we typically recommend laminated glass, which measurably reduces transmitted sound versus a standard clear lite. The acoustic rating depends on your glass selection, so we walk through tradeoffs before ordering.

Airtightness & Weather Seal – Every perimeter joint is sealed with AAMA 812 low-expansion foam. This expands into the gap between the frame and the rough opening, creating a continuous air barrier. Gaps that leak air also leak conditioned air out of your home, and in Orlando’s cooling-dominated climate, a leaky door frame is money leaving the building. The foam seals those gaps with pressure and chemistry, not just caulk and hope.

Waterproofing – An arched door is only as dry as its sill flashing and perimeter seal. Our installation process includes a sill pan and back-dam detail that directs any incidental water back outside rather than underneath the threshold. Florida rains hit hard and sideways; the combination of AAMA 2400/2410 installation methods and 812 foam on the perimeter means water moves away from the interior and into the drainage plane of the house.

Wind Resistance – Orlando sits in a high-velocity hurricane zone, and door assemblies here need to meet wind load requirements per Florida Building Code. The VLX 100 is wind-load rated, and when you specify the impact-resistant laminated glass option, you get a door that’s not just rated for wind pressure but also for missile impact. That’s the difference between a door that survives a storm and a door that keeps your home’s envelope intact during one.

Security & Hardware – A front door is a security decision whether or not anyone talks about it. The VLX 100’s aluminum frame is rigid and holds hardware fasteners securely, which means deadbolts and multi-point locks engage consistently over time. We can spec a three-point lock that throws bolts into the head and sill, which is what we recommend for any door this size. It resists forced entry better than a single deadbolt alone.

Color & Glass Options

The finish you pick sets the tone for the entire elevation. Premium Black and Pure White are our most requested colors in Orlando right now, and for good reason. A black arched door against a white stucco wall is about as classic a statement as a Florida home can make, while Pure White reads clean and modern, especially on newer builds in Winter Garden and Horizon West. Anodized Silver gives you that raw aluminum look that suits contemporary homes, and Bronze lands somewhere between warm and architectural, often the right call on traditional brick homes in Thornton Park. Champagne is a softer metallic that we’re seeing more of on transitional designs, and Teak Wood is a powder-coated finish that mimics warm wood grain without the maintenance headache of real timber in Florida humidity.

For glass, start with what the door needs to do. Clear is just that, clean sightlines, maximum light. Frosted and Obscure trade some light for privacy, which makes sense for a front door where you don’t want to silhouette the entire living room to the street. Low-E is the energy workhorse, cutting solar heat gain while staying visually transparent. Tempered glass is our baseline recommendation for any full-lite door because it shatters into small, less dangerous pieces if broken. Laminated glass layers a polymer interlayer between two lites, which gives you both the impact-resistance rating and better sound isolation. In Orlando’s wind zone, laminated is the option we lead with for front elevations.

Installation by Westlight Windows Orlando in Orlando

A custom arched door lives or dies on the installation. We’ve pulled out doors that cost more than a new car because they were set by crews who treated the rough opening like an afterthought. A door slab that’s out of plumb by a quarter inch will bind at the latch, swing closed or open on its own, and wear out hardware prematurely. Worse, a door installed without proper flashing will leak, and a leaking arched door in Orlando weather rots out the surrounding wall framing within a couple of rainy seasons.

Our install sequence starts before the door is even ordered. We measure the actual rough opening ourselves, on-site, with a digital level and a tape measure, not a phone camera. That measurement drives the fabrication drawing. When the door arrives, we inspect it before the old unit comes out. Then we set the frame level, plumb, and square, shim it at the hinge and strike locations where the load concentrates, and anchor it per the manufacturer’s engineered fastening schedule.

Once the frame is set, we run AAMA 812 low-expansion foam on the entire perimeter, inside and out. After the foam cures, we trim it and apply sealant at the exterior joint, install sill flashing that laps the drainage plane correctly, and run a water test on the sill-to-jamb corners before we call it done. Interior trim and paint touch-up happen the same day, and we haul off the old door and all job debris. Every installation is performed to AAMA 2400/2410 standards, which is the industry benchmark for fenestration installation. That’s what keeps the manufacturer’s warranty alive. A door installed by a crew that doesn’t meet the standard is a warranty denial waiting to happen, and no one wants to learn that the hard way.

Orlando’s building requirements add their own layer. We pull permits where the scope calls for it, and we’ve coordinated enough inspections with the City of Orlando and Orange County to know what the inspectors want to see before we got there. For homes in historic districts, we’re familiar with the design review process and can prep documentation if your approval hinges on material or finish details.

Frequently Asked Questions – VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door

Get a Quote – VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door in Orlando

If you’ve got an arched opening, or you want to create one, let’s talk about it. Westlight Windows Orlando will measure your opening, spec the correct glass and finish for your home’s elevation, and hand you a written, itemized quote that holds. Call (850) 493-7894 to start your project or schedule a free on-site measurement in Orlando, FL.

Written by the team at Westlight Windows Orlando, authorized ViewLux installation partner serving Orlando, FL and surrounding communities.