"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
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(John Anderson) wrote in
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I used plywood to protect my home during the last few hurricanes
we have had here in Tampa, Fl.

How, exactly, do you do that?

Do you save the plywood for reuse for a single season or multiple
seasons? Do you have permanent threaded mounting points around the
window frames or are you making fresh holes each time? How many times
can you get away with that?

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |
Bert,
Well, you get plywood 4 x 8 x 1/2 or 5/8 etc. You then cut it to fit over
the window. I have a stucco-over-concrete block house in the Florida Living
style. I then place the plywood into the recess for the windows (I don't
know what this is actually called.) I then used tap-cons to screw them down
into the concrete. When it is all over, I take them off and put them
against the wall in the garage for next storm.

Notice I didn't say next year . You don't make fresh holes every year.
You can reuse the old ones. I have a tube of stuff that patches the
concrete, a little touch up paint, and voila! A little sun to blend the
paint and you'd never know the difference. My problem with this is that
these are good to only so much wind and crap hitting the house. I'm from
Louisiana, and I have been in some VERY scarey hurricanes -Betsy and Camille
to name a few. I will not live anywhere else but here in Florida or back in
Louisiana. I will also never live too close to the water. You can get
killed doing that.
John