The manufacture suggests the following
number of braces depending upon the size of the garage door
being protected:
Single car
garage: minimum of one (1) brace is required for wind speeds up to 179 mph
(miles per hour).
Two car
garage: minimum of two (2)
braces for wind speeds up to 169 mph and optionally three (3) braces for wind speeds up to 180 mph.
Two and one
half garage: minimum of three (3) braces
It's More than Affordable! Now at only $150 (including tax) per brace, a Secure Door garage door brace is many times cheaper than your out-of-pocket
insurance deductible. SAVE YOURSELF THE TRIP, WE BEAT HOME IMPROVEMENT STORE PRICING ON BOTH BRACES AND LABOR, AND WE DELIVER! (Do-It-Yourselfers, we will even pre-assemble your braces to make it even easier to install.)
It's Effective: Secure Door is a patented, statewide Florida Building Code approved garage door brace that was successfully tested to protect a home's
largest and weakest opening ... the garage door. Testing showed that
Secure Door offers excellent protection for even a cheap, 26 guage,
rolled steel, double car garage door under hurricane wind conditions
rated at a strong Category 5. That's 180 miles per hour. Just for comparison,
Hurricane Katrina's maximum winds never exceeded 174 mph.
It's Easy: It only takes 45 minutes for a do-it-yourself person to initially install this
protection and then only a few minutes to remove or re-secure for future use.
It's Available Now: Secure
Door braces are currently in stock and can be either picked up today or
delivered via UPS
The garage
door is potentially the largest and weakest opening in many home
to a hurricane?
According to
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), loss of the
garage door was a major factor for homes damaged or destroyed in
Hurricane Andrew?
Even with
shutters, if your garage door fails, the full force of the
hurricane will enter your home and possibly blow off your roof
and seriously damage or destroy your home?
Even with
shutters, if your garage door fails, the full force of the
hurricane will enter your home and possibly blow off your roof
and seriously damage or destroy your home?
Hurricanes
exert both a positive (inward) and negative (outward) pressure
on all of your home's walls and openings ... including your
garage door.
Results of wind pressure.
Regardless
of the type and strength of your garage door, it is only
attached to the garage frame by its side-wheels that ride inside
the garage door tracks.
Garage doors
fail when the hurricane winds cause the door to physically bend
either inward or outward. This bending shortens the width of the garage door and causes
the garage door side-wheels to pull out of the tracks thus
detaching the garage door from the frame.
To keep your
garage door securely in place, you must not allow the garage
door to bend. Here is an example of what can happen without a Secure Door vertical garage door brace.
The result of using the Secure Door protected garage door is that the door is inhibited from
bending either inward or outward, thereby remaining intact and protecting your home from the entry of hurricane force winds and debris.
Secure Door Benefits
Provides
protection against up to Category 5 hurricane winds (dependent upon
the quality and condition of your garage door)
Much
less expensive than hurricane-resistant garage doors and garage door
shutters
More
effective than retrofitted horizontal garage door braces
Can
be set up in three (3) minutes or less should a hurricane threaten
Does
not attach permanently to the garage door; stores inconspicuously
and conveniently out of the way
Does
not require a building permit for purchase or installation
May
qualify you for some type of homeowners insurance discount
Fits
almost all garage doors
Lightweight,
requires no maintenance
Reinforces
the garage door and provides an anchor and support in addition to
the garage door tracks
Secure Door is made of
high-quality aircraft-grade aluminum in the form of a rectangle
box-beam that is lightweight yet
incredibly strong
Secure Door has a unique
telescoping design that enables it to brace almost all home or
commercial garage doors. Home garage doors up to 8 foot in
height. Commercial garage doors up to 15 feet (note: although it
works on the same principal, the commercial application has not
been formally tested and certified).
Secure Door brackets are
directly attach to the garage door's hinges to keep the garage
door from being either blown in or sucked out, Secure Door was
designed to be adjustable so that it can fit behind any existing
horizontal garage door braces.
The top end of Secure Door is
anchored into the wall (concrete header) above the garage door.
The bottom end of Secure Door is anchored to the garage floor.
Secure Door is then attached to each garage door hinge.
Secure Door is not permanently
attached to your garage door, so you do not have to adjust the
garage door springs... which if done incorrectly can cause a
very dangerous situation.
Advice from FEMA, and Insurance
Companies
On
September 1998 a booklet entitled "A
Homeowners Guide To Hurricane Retrofit" was published by the
Institute
for Business & Home Safety (in cooperation with FEMA,
building officials and insurance companies). The purpose of this booklet
was to show how you can best protect your home BEFORE the storm.
On pages 12 & 13 it
graphically emphasizes how vertical bracing should be attached to the
door's hinges to retrofit a
non-hurricane rated garage door or to further strengthen a rated door.
The illustrations match Secure
Door's patented product that is attached to the garage door header,
garage floor and to each hinge or door shackle on the garage door.
Here's what could happen. These people didn't use Secure Door. Add up their repair costs, their time and effort to
fix the car, garage door, roof, and whatever else was in the garage.
Secure Door is far less expensive. You
can inexpensively and quickly reduce your current risk by ordering
Secure Door garage door braces. Don't leave your garage door unprotected!
Why not call to today for a FREE
ESTIMATE? Quick Installation We offer Full-Service professional Installation. We are also Do-It-Yourself friendly. We guarantee the lowest price!
Call Us For Details:
(561) 715-0172
All Florida Hurricane Depot
PO BOX 880328
Boca Raton, FL 33488
We will be happy to come to your home to give you a
free, no obligation estimate. We will install Secure Door Garage Door Braces for you or offer support and information for Do-It-Yourselfers.
Important: Our Secure Door Garage Door Brace has been tested to 180 mph. If you do
not have a hurricane rated garage door, you need this product to
keep
your door
from being either blown in or sucked out. Once that happens, your
roof is the next item to leave your home.
This patented
hurricane garage door
brace offers excellent wind protection and is very cost
effective. Secure Door is a Florida Building Code approved product (FL6420). A copy of the approval may be downloaded and printed to provide to inspectors or building department personnel of insurance company representatives by clicking on the link provided below. The supporting test report is also attached (NTCL E330 test report link).
Please note at the bottom of the approval under Limits of Use that the product is approved for Statewide use including the High Velocity Hurricane (HVHZ) area of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. The accompanying memorandum from the Florida Building Commission explains the two approval authorities and that Florida Building Code approved products may be used in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties (Miami NOA Memo link).
Here
are some of the South Florida cities that All Florida Hurricane Depot services:
Big Pine Key, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Coral Springs, Coconut Creek, Dania,
Davie, Deerfield Beach, Delray Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale, Highland Beach,
Hollywood, Homestead, Islamorada, Key
Largo, Key West, Lauderdale-by-the-sea, Lauderhill, Lauderdale Lakes, Lighthouse
Point, Loxahatchee, Marathon, Margate, Miami, Miami Beach, Miramar, Oakland Park,
Ocean Reef, Palm Beach, Parkland, Pembroke Pines, Pembroke Park, Plantation,
Pompano Beach, Royal Palm, Sea Ranch Lakes, Sugarloaf Key, Sunrise, Tamarac,
Wellington, West Palm Beach, Weston, and your city!
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