When should you prepare your Hurricane Shutters?

To prepare for the next hurricane season, we would like to provide you with helpful information that could help save your property. Many homeowners wonder when hurricane shutters should be deployed on their homes. There are many different scenarios that can occur which will be triggers for you to deploy your hurricane shutters. If you feel the wind picking up and your trees are swaying side to side, this indicates that you should put up your hurricane shutters. Also if there is debris being picked up from the ground by the wind, this will also indicate that you need to put up your shutters.

The obvious scenario is the hurricane warning from your local news, this is the biggest indicator to deploying your shutters immediately. Once you see the hurricane route on your local news, it is important to deploy your shutters at least a day before the hurricane is supposed to hit your area. Hurricanes can speed up and slow down unexpectedly, therefore putting them up 24 hours before will give you more wiggle room.

All hurricane shutters aren’t equal when it comes to deployment time. There are four main types of hurricane shutters; storm panels, accordions, bahamas, and roll-ups. Depending on whichever type of hurricane shutters you have, you may need to start deploying even earlier. With steel storm panels, I suggest deploying these much earlier than the other alternatives because they take much longer.

There may be an instance in which you are missing wingnuts for your storm panels, therefore you need to have time to go to the store before fully deploying the shutters. With accordions, bahamas, and roll-up shutters they should deploy in a few seconds with ease. Many people switch from steel storm panels because they take hours to deploy and are even more difficult on two-story homes.

If you’re in the market to upgrade your hurricane shutters, don’t hesitate to contact us at (321)956-3102 to schedule a FREE Estimate! We sell and install accordion shutters, bahama shutters, roll-up shutters, and storm panels. Our factory is located in Melbourne, FL but we proudly service all of Brevard County and Indian River County in cities like; Melbourne, Viera, Sebastian, Vero Beach, Cocoa, Palm Bay, Titusville, Mims, Fellsmere, etc.