While having lots of time on my hands during the Covid-19 pandemic, I take the time and invest it into my house by installing Hurricane Shutters!
My house is a 1985 vintage house with single pane crank-out jealousy windows. Living on the Gulf side of Florida where Hurricanes come occasionally, we felt very vulnerable to one doing serious damage to our house. So I got a quote to replace all the sliders and windows with hurricane rated ones at it was $85,000 - waaaay too much for us to afford!!
After researching different hurricane shutters commercially available on the market, I chose the Storm-Busters Clearview poly-carbonate panels that you can install yourself. These are 80% lighter than a piece of 5/8" plywood, are UV protected, are Florida hurricane rated, and allow light into your house when installed!!
In this video I show how I installed these panels so that they are nearly invisible when installed allowing them to be left up indefinitely if desired! Although the manufacture suggests that you make the panels much larger and bolt them into the brick work around the window, I found it much better to cut them much smaller and directly affix them to the aluminum metal frame of the window. The way I did it makes them almost invisible when viewed from the outside which we like best.
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7 сен 2024
