Those things won' take a 100mph hit of a tree branch. You need
something strong. The plywood is flexible enough to absorb the energy
and most likely diffuse it enough to protect the window.
Roll-up metal shutters are good but spendy.
--FT
On 10/4/16 9:23 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
A silly thought:
Most all houses have "shutters" bolted to the outside of the house. Seems like
hurricanes are a common enough occurrence to make actual shutters a thing worth having.
In the case of a storm just close them. I mean if you were going to build a thing
anyway...
-Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ideas/Opinions on Hurricane Window Protection
I realize that, but the closer the plywood is to the window surface and the bracing of the tension rods should make it pretty difficult. Of course, if we’re talking 140 mph winds all bets are off, but that will be the least of my worries should it occur.
Dan
On Oct 4, 2016, at 6:29 PM, fmiser via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
The wind blowing across the _front_ can create a low-pressure area
that will "pull" the plywood outward from the window - not just if
the wind can "get behind it"
That's not to say your idea won't work just fine - just pointing
out the physics. *smiles*
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