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Offer: $3,500 off high-impact windows and doors for all installations booked in January.
Bonus: Buy Two windows get One free.Passive hurricane preparation is a savvy home strategy that people living in hurricane-prone areas can implement at any time to get to their homes. Helping to prepare and get their home ready for extreme weather conditions.
It’s a set of preventive measures that homeowners can take to safeguard their property well before there’s a heavy storm or hurricane heading their way. Unlike the active hardening measures that refer to protecting your home by using sandbags or shutters and plywood, passive hurricane preparation can be taken before hurricane season hits your area.
Are you ready to embrace a more proactive attitude towards hurricane safety? Home protection against these extreme weather conditions can easily begin by following these storm protection tips.
Install Impact Windows and Doors
Windows and doors are particularly vulnerable during a hurricane or storm. Glass window panes can easily shatter into a thousand pieces, causing roof and interior damage. Wood doors can be easily damaged by the strong winds and heavy rains. Thus, leaving your property and your family unprotected from any wind-related damage, water intrusion, or physical damage from debris and broken glass.
Installing impact windows and doors is one of the first and most important measures to take towards passive hurricane preparation. Hurricane windows and hurricane doors are more durable and significantly safer than ordinary ones. They don’t only look nice but they also are low-maintenance, their hinges resist corrosion and they come with multi-point locks.
Installing hurricane windows and doors can keep you safe against accidental and hurricane glass breakage. As well as offering a lock-tight lifetime installation as well.
Advantages of Impact Windows and Doors
Relying on impact windows and doors not only prevents you from putting your family and home at risk. However, it also adds protection when a storm arises. Other advantages include:
- Reduce the financial risk that comes with property damage
- You won’t need any additional protection for your doors and windows
- Peace of mind knowing that your family is safe
- Additional safety against forced entry
- Higher energy efficiency thus reduced heating and cooling costs
- Enjoy a quieter home thanks to their noise reduction effect
Wind-Proof Your Garage Door
Your garage door is probably the largest entry door to your home and wind-proofing it is a major step towards passive hurricane protection. If your garage door fails to stay in place during a hurricane or heavy storm, it can make your home susceptible to damage. Putting it in the potential risk of the roof blowing off or creating other significant damage to your home.
That being said, ensuring that your garage door is wind-proof and can stand even the hardest winds is a huge step towards hurricane safety. Upgrading to a wind-rated garage door can significantly improve the storm protection of your home.
Advantages of Wind-Rated Garage Doors
Having a garage door that can resist even the strongest winds offers some advantages to homeowners. Amongst them we can mention:
- Keep your vehicle and other valuable assets you keep in your garage protected
- Ensure that all your entry doors are hurricane safe
- Peace of mind that your home and family are protected and safe at home
Retrofit Your Roof
When looking into an overall hurricane safety plan for your home, retrofitting your roof is another important aspect you should bear in mind. Retrofitting simply means ensuring that your roof meets the latest professional recommendations to protect your property in the best way possible.
A professional roof contractor can assess your roof and determine the repairs it needs to protect your home. This can be done without compromising the structure of your roof. As with any other passive hurricane protection strategy, you can rely on regular annual roof inspections to prevent minor problems from becoming larger ones. Fixing loose or missing shingles, signs of water damage, clogged gutters, and downspouts before the storm season arrives is not only financially wise but can also keep property damage at bay during bad weather.
Advantages of Retrofitting your Roof
For the sake of hurricane safety, ensuring that the structure of the roof is not compromised is not a minor detail. It offers families the following additional benefits:
- Major storm safety for your home and your loved ones
- Prevents higher financial costs from property damage
- Improved property structure
Ask For a Wind Mitigation Inspection
A wind mitigation inspection is another important aspect of home protection against storms and hurricanes. During such evaluation, a professional inspector will look into the structure of your property to let you know whether it is ready or not to withstand strong winds. As well as what you can do to decrease the damage that your home may suffer if affected by a hurricane.
Some of the aspects that a wind mitigation inspector considers when evaluating hurricane safety include:
- The age of your property
- The shape of the roof
- Type of roof coverings
- Materials used for roof decking
- Opening protections in place
Advantages of a Wind Mitigation Inspection
By far, the most popular advantage of a wind mitigation inspection is that it can help you save money on your insurance premiums. In other words, the more wind-resistant features that your roof and house have, the more discount that you’ll enjoy. Other benefits include:
- Improved hurricane safety
- Overall home protection against storms and hurricanes
Get Your Home Hurricane Ready
As it can be appreciated, hurricane passive preparation is a constant reminder of the many preventive safety measures that homeowners can implement to prevent property damage during a storm. There’s no need to wait until the next hurricane is on the news to get your home prepared! Contact LockTight Impact Windows and Doors today for a free estimate and to ensure your home is ready for the next storm.
Hurricane Protection
Prepare your home for the next hurricane with products specifically made to withstand the elements. Designed to withstand pressures up to +/- 100, our products will keep you and your family safe when a storm arrises.
Energy Savings
Save 20-30% on your monthly energy bill by switching to energy efficient windows from one of our leading manufacturers.
Noise Reduction
Enjoy a quiet home with Impact Windows and Doors. Decreasing 40% of external noise from all outside forces.
Burglar Resistant
Many homeowners are paying $30 – $90 a month for a security system. Save money on a security system by installing impact windows and doors. Our products keep unwanted intruders out and your home safe.
Insurance Savings
Save an average of 25% on your homeowners insurance policy by switching to impact windows and doors.
Increase Property Value
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New Year, New Home Protection Sale
Offer: $3,500 off high-impact windows and doors for all installations booked in January.
Bonus: Buy Two windows get One free.New Year, New Home Protection Sale
Offer: $3,500 off high-impact windows and doors for all installations booked in January.
Bonus: Buy Two windows get One free.