减少风力，为风暴破坏做准备

Wind is an unpredictable element that can threaten your home and safety. 在大风期间, air currents can fluctuate and change directions without warning placing pressure on all parts of a structure and potentially pulling it apart or lifting it from its foundation. 当风速上升时, pieces of debris can also become dangerous — crashing into your home with significant force and potentially breaking through it and endangering your loved ones. But t在这里 are steps you can take to increase your safety with wind mitigation.

保护你的家免受风暴的破坏

传统的家庭

• Keep your home firmly anchored in high winds by having anchor bolts with heavy-gauge, square bolt washers installed to connect your floor to the foundation.
• Reinforce the rest of the frame by connecting wall and floor components with properly installed plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), and attach roof trusses or rafters to the walls with metal connectors.
  • 在现有房屋上，这可以在更换壁板时完成.

制造的房子

• 制造的房子 are more prone to damage from high winds as a result of non-permanent foundations.
• 定期检查所有绑带和系带是否生锈, 损坏或磨损，立即修理.

让你的家不那么容易受到风的破坏

窗户

• 安装适合当地风速的窗户.
• 为飓风多发地区提供最好的保护, install impact-resistant permanent shutters that meet applicable building code approved standards.

门

• 以更好地抵抗风压和飞行碎片, 确保你的入口门是实木或空心金属的.
• 所有的入口门都应该有三个 铰链 还有一把至少有一英寸长度的死锁.
• Door framing should be securely anchored to the wall structure using fasteners that are at least three inches long.
• 如果你有双入口的门, secure the inactive door with head and foot bolts that extend through the door header and into the subfloor.
• 天井门应采用抗冲击安全玻璃.
• 百叶窗提供了额外的保护.

车库门

• 安装适合当地风速的门.
• 如果建一个新家 飓风频发区, consider installing horizontally braced, single-wide garage doors instead of double-wide doors.
• 对于现有房屋, check with your garage door manufacturer for availability of retrofit bracing kits.
• 注意你的车库门板, 特别是如果是双宽的, may require both horizontal and vertical bracing to ensure stability.
• You can also protect your garage door with a shutter or screen rated for wind pressure and debris impact.

屋面

• 强风会使瓦片脱落, especially if edge shingles are not well secured or the adhesive on their tabs has failed.
  • 屋顶专家可以评估你的屋顶, 如果需要的话, additional roofing cement can be added under each tab to help keep the shingles attached during a high-wind event.
• 的 shingles should be attached to roof decking of solid 5/8"thick plywood.
• 的 roof decking should be attached to the roof framing using 8d ring shank nails and a secondary water barrier created by installing self-adhering flashing tape over the joints in the roof deck.
• 为了更好地抵抗风的抬升, apply a bead of construction adhesive along both sides of the intersection between the roof decking and the rafters or trusses. Your roofing professional can provide you with information about additional safeguards.

一些进入挑檐底面

• 帮助锚定软肋, 屋顶椽子下裸露的壁板通向你家, have a professional apply a bead of polyurethane sealant between the wall and the trim into which the soffit panels are inserted.
• You can also apply a dollop of caulk in the V-shaped hole w在这里 the joint between two soffit panels meets the trim.

安全的房间

• Designate a place in your home that will protect your family from injuries caused by broken windows and flying debris.
• 地下室通常是最好的地点 安全的房间; otherwise, locate the room on the interior, ground floor of your home.
• An experienced contractor can equip your 安全的房间 with reinforced floors, walls and ceilings regardless of whether you have a new or existing home.

景观

• Avoid using gravel or rock landscaping materials, which can be hazardous when airborne. 碎树皮是一种有吸引力且不那么危险的替代品.

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