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Hurricane-Resistant Garage Doors
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" So that's Denver Miller over here making all the noise and Ernie -- from hurricane master doors. Why is the heart -- the garage door one of the weakest spots in the house when hurricane comes."
" has the most vulnerable wide opening into the home and and if it's not protected properly it gives as if it can lead to. Much destruction in the home you know and we found out throughout the years it. But strengthen its opening here we give the homeowner protection against the forces of nature."
" and also against you know the problem of failing garage door very often is that it's kind of ripped to smithereens by the hurricane winds. And scattered all over the place and cause damage to the neighbor's house."
" And that's true that's why we make our door out of a much heavier gauge steel and one quarter -- dale let's look at the door closely yes. We can't see the panels yet but. If everything is metal right everything is 24 gauge steel in the panels and this is what's called -- panel. We can -- do it flush with chip you know was it is a more contemporary look yeah more contemporary tonight. And then that the reinforcing is -- handling wow that's having. These go. Integrated into each one of these panels yes -- depending on what wind -- we're trying to tank but the main thing to strengthen this door. As that's what we call it fits in here this is a patent that we own it's called anti abortion. And what that does -- strengthen. -- top and the bottom panel so that you don't get rotation in there. Which causes. The door to to to open up gap and allow wind blowing and the door fails how many panels to Stewart. There will be 44."
" OK and and so Denver the the the installation of one of these things is over complicated job right. Its status you know."
" I mean it's basically standard as far as -- crowd perhaps songs facts yet it happened in the manufacturer's specs right and and they're heavier. OK what was the first thing you got to do and solid bottom sectional put in the whole make sure it's level. Well -- you know back off while you guys start working on that."
" All right so you've got three of these on here how heavy is it. Well it's. Now what -- to read you need three on every single one of these panels. "
" No it Nate you'd need three on the bottom because that's that's that's the weakest point of the door and if you move up you use less you have. Too long to on the next section BS and two on the net itself."
" They get to stop this what gives it our strength is these in these inner force. Bars that fit in the top and bottom of the so given the strength so that we don't need all the large bars that. Adored me and yet thereby giving more room and -- and -- yeah so this is integrated right into the skin of the -- and that's cut away of one of these things yes -- way that this is made of a special type about spring steel that all these characters give this more strength than just if it was flat out like the other. Very impressive. All right Denver you want to go ahead and put it in place and get out of -- Virginia hand -- Do you stood."
" Which -- sizes door. It sixteen process sixteen feet wide. So the first panel is simply laid down in place. So what about the track itself. We're where you're mounting it onto the into the."
" Walls well what we've found out and that we need squeezes and that and meeting our standards we need seven of these track brackets on the phone -- so you get seven points where it's fastened. -- team to the house and a flag bracket great. And we use in. This -- this fourteen gauge track which is an -- industrial grade track commercial grade so that use. The maximum strength to hold that door and so that the track that wrote today. When the wind blows great."
" All right so next we can hook up the GDO right -- the garage door opener."