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Hurricane Protection for Porches, Windows, and Doors
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" Another option for making your home storm ready. Is -- take hours and tell us about it it's called our armor screen -- armor screen yes it's it's hurricane protection. It's it's designed to stop wind rain the debris it's just a fabric. It's a very strong fabric the geo synthetic textile. That's that's designed to take serious abuse -- if you got a hundred mile an hour wind coming at you with Susan this is gonna blow no it's not hundred mile an hour wind would allow a little tiny breeze and through actually three mile an hour to -- can reduce a hundred mile an hour wind to three miles and on the other side that's correct and if rain hits that the surface tension sheets it up solid so the wind stops. Completely really this is terrific so it's not just a product to be used if in a lanai like we're doing here all -- know it can be on doors windows. Wherever you want to do with the application on the lanai. Turns this lanai into a hurricane shelter in the event of the storm wow. So we've got 12345. Openings yes and how do you secure them how do you attach the we have bolts and clips at the top. And and at the side. We have a clip. So you can double snap it and then you batten it down like that. The reason for back through like this is there's tremendous. Battering from the from the wind and and -- that final locking thing stops it from moving all right you can also tied down through. A regular -- an Eyebolt is a different method of fastening yeah and then down on the ground you've got Eyebolt -- when you're not using it the eyeballs come out and you just plug it we have sidewalk bolts that we put in yes OK. Now this is very interesting as an alternative to. Plywood right yes it's an alternative to absolutely any other kind of hurricane protection jackets here we're looking -- in in an unusual situation in the lanai but so many people have. Older Florida homes with those three by five foot windows that they have to -- hurry and get plywood out at. A lot of people can't do that. This if you put this over any other. Part of the house the house is hurricane rated. For all of Florida with the exception -- differs little different standard OK. What about the cost though it looks expensive. Just slightly under 200 dollars for a three by five window so you're approximating that couple hundred bucks for an average size window that sounds -- it's a great alternative thanks ought to think Cuba."