How To Repair Hurricane Shutter Anchors

Frequently Asked Questions Why does my habitation demand hurricane shutters?

Hurricane shutters human activity as a barrier between you and the storm, preventing the wind from inbound your home, helping protect your property and keeping you and your family unit safe. Without hurricane shutters, the wind from a tempest can create enormous pressure that could strength the roof off. Are the holes in the panels round?

The holes are the shape of an centre. The holes are punch 6 inches on middle on the peak and the bottom of the panels. The panels are secured into the studded angle track with washer based wingnuts. The panels tin also be directing mounted to the wall using atomic number 82 anchors and stainless steel truss combo screws. What is the side of the head on the combo stainless/steel sidewalk bolts?

The pictures above compare the head size to dime and the thickness to a nickel. Why are the sidewalks and truss screws called philharmonic?

The screws are chosen philharmonic because they can exist spiral in or out with a apartment or Phillips head spiral driver or screw bit. The sidewalk screws are used for installing removable tracks on floors. Always supervene upon the spiral in the ballast when track is not installed. The beveled edge on the sidewalk screw works dandy on flooring. I had my hurricane panels installed past some other company several years ago and several of the anchors take popped out. Merely the atomic number 82 portion of the anchor is in the wall. What can I practice to gear up these?

From your description, it sounds like the anchors were installed backwards (incorrect) with the cone end facing outward. If the holes are in good weather and the lead cylinder tin can be removed without damaging to the hole, you can replace the anchor. Use the installation tips on installing the atomic number 82 machine screw anchors. Which motorcar screw anchors do y'all recommend?

All iii machine screw anchors nosotros sell are Miami-Dade product approved and we recommend them all. Our most popular is the to the lowest degree expensive and is used by near professional person installer. The deviation in the machine screw anchors are the cone threaded ane/4-xx inserts. Detect to a higher place the Rawls/Powers have more rib groves on the outer cone and a slightly unlike shape. The brass have spiral groves and a heavy duty contumely cone. As the quality goes up so does the price. Their are many different car screw anchors on the market, and these are our choice. I alive on the West Coast of Florida and all my windows have a window sill that protrudes out about i" - 3"? 1 solution would exist to mount the panels horizontally across the window opening. The panels would accept to be mounted with a 2" x 2" studded angle on both sides or directly mounting the panels to the wall. If your opening is 39" (width) by 52" (height) simply switch the dimension to 52"(w) x 39" (h). You will need 5 panels to comprehend 52". We recommend adding half dozen" - 8" to the length when installing horizontally. If you desire to mountain the track on the window sill, we tin can reverse the screws on the ii" x ii" studded-angle. An alternative solution would exist to mount a 2" x 2" angle to the back of a 2" x 2" studded angle using Tek screws. What are the advantages of aluminum vs. galvanized steel panels? The twenty ga. galvanized steel panels use to be so much cheaper then the aluminum panels. The 20 ga. galvanized, .050 and .063 aluminum all meet the Miami-Dade County edifice lawmaking. We highly recommend using the aluminum panels over the steel. With both products offering the aforementioned protection, the .050 aluminum panels weights 1.25 pounds per pes equally compared to ii.75 pounds per foot. The galvanized panels accept very sharp edges and are harder to handle. When the galvanized panels are laid apartment on the floor, a screw driver is required to pry them apart. We recommend wearing leather piece of work gloves when handling either of the panels. What are the advantages of using tracks vs. straight mounting the panels to the wall? If you structure is CBS block, the panels can be directly mounted to the wall using machine screw anchors with a stainless steel philharmonic/truss head screw. The advantage of the direct mountain organisation is no tracks or mount gear is visible. Some customers do non like the wait of the tracks on the wall. The advantage of using tracks (h-header/studded angle) the installation is one 3rd of the time. Do you sell half panels? Yes, we sell half panels in the .050 aluminum only. A full panel could be overlapped instead of using a half panel. If your opening is 39", 3 panels volition encompass approximately 37". You could use iv or 3 ane/2 panel

Hurricane Depot, Inc. ♦ Telephone 305-234-0796 ♦ Fax 305-356-1001 ♦ info@hurricanedepot.com