Hurricane shutters, storm panels and lanai protection across Cape Coral and Lee County, Florida.
Guides
How this work actually gets specified, costed and built — and the problems worth designing around. Written from public sources, with the references on every page.
Florida's approval rule names what installation instructions must specify about anchors, requires a second party to check them, and grandfathers an old install only if it met code when it went in.
Read the guide →Florida exempts openings in sunrooms, balconies and enclosed porches from windborne debris protection, under three conditions. The third one moves the requirement inboard rather than removing it.
Read the guide →A shower door and a hurricane window can both be called safety glass. One test asks whether a person can walk through it; the other is the code missile test. They prove different things.
Read the guide →Florida gives every opening in your house one wind load table — except the garage door, which gets a second one. What Table R301.2(4) puts on a 16-foot door, and why.
Read the guide →Florida does permit wood structural panels as opening protection, within limits. The thickness, the fastener span, the roof height cap — and what plywood costs you in practice.
Read the guide →In Lee County, storm surge destroyed far more than wind did. Opening protection is still worth buying — but only if you know which hazard you are buying against.
Read the guide →Call (239) 402-1214 or request a callback — whichever is easier.