When preparing your home for hurricane season, the usual suspects like securing the windows, trimming the trees, and reinforcing your roof tend to take priority. But let’s not overlook one of the largest and most vulnerable openings in your home—the garage door. Surprisingly, many homeowners don’t realize just how critical it is to make sure...
Protecting your home in strong winds and hurricanes is important if you want to make sure that you don’t overdo it with your insurance and you have somewhere to live after the storm has passed. One of the best ways that you can protect your home from strong winds is to install a metal roof....
Your roof is the first line of defense that your home has as soon as the winds begin to pick-up and a hurricane approaches. You might have at first thought that picking the style and material for your roof is only to make your home look good and increase its value, but if you pick...
Wind! It is certainly unpredictable. Whether it is combined with a storm, rain, and hail, and has the strength of a hurricane, cyclone, microburst or tornado, it can leave a path of destruction with little or no warning. No matter what sort of wind you may be experiencing outside, you deserve to be warm, comfortable...
Hurricane season is something that many homeowners have to prepare for each and every year, and with the weather changing as it seems to be, it feels like people even further inland are starting to have to reckon with it. Hurricanes can cause all manner of damage to your roof, whether it’s through continuous extreme...
Hailstorms can be incredibly destructive, causing significant damage to homes, vehicles, and landscapes. Roofing, being the most exposed part of a house, often bears the brunt of the impact. In this article, we will explore the durability of metal roofing against hail damage and discuss additional precautions homeowners can take to further reinforce their roofs...
High winds can be a serious threat to the windows in your home, tearing them apart or cracking them open and creating cracks that let in airborne contaminants like raindrops or leaves. Therefore, it’s essential that you find effective strategies and tips for reinforcing them against high winds – whether in an area susceptible to...
Living in a region that is susceptible to hurricanes means that at times you may need to prepare for, or return to, the impact of one of Mother Nature’s fiercest storms. Even with prior warning, it can feel like there is not enough time to research and know how to best prepare – unless you’ve...
Returning home to assess and clean up the damage from a hurricane can be quite daunting. You could be facing water and wind damage, standing flood water through the house, mold, grime and even power outages while you try to deal with everything else. It’s not easy, but a clean-up is possible with the right...
If your house has been hit by a hurricane or another climate disaster, one of the first steps to getting things back to normal is to file an insurance claim to help with repairs. The problem is that your house is now in pieces and your insurance company information is in there somewhere and you...
