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TAMPA, Fla. - Appropriate now, bodies beyond the accompaniment of Florida are antagonism to accessible their homes for the blackmail of Hurricane Irma. Experts acquaint ABC Action News that basic your windows can be one of the best things you can do to assure your abode from wind accident and debris.
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They say it's important to agenda that taping your windows isn't accepted to work.
Instead, boarding up your windows is the best way to go. But abounding bodies accept questions about how to do this appropriately -- abnormally if they aren't abnormally handy.
Home Repair experts with the app HOMEE went through boarding up your windows footfall by step.
The say the aboriginal affair to do is amount out whether you accept copse window sills or accurate window sills. That's key because a copse spiral won't go into concrete, and a accurate spiral won't assignment with wood.
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“You accept to accept the appropriate absolute for the appropriate screw," said James Asmundo, HOMEE handyman.
The abutting affair you appetite to do is admeasurement your sills. You appetite to ensure the absolute window is closed and covered, Asmundo said.
Then, get the copse cut to fit the sills. Either do it yourself, or get it cut in a store. Abounding of the big box food like Home Depot and Lowes will cut the copse for you for a price.
However, as Hurricane Irma gets afterpiece to Florida, plywood is in abbreviate supply. If you'd still like to get plywood, some absolute architecture accumulation food and barge food still accept some accessible in the Tampa Bay area.
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Next, you appetite to alpha the conduct process. If you accept concrete, you charge a bang drill, a assignment bit fabricated for accurate and accurate fasteners. You charge predrill the holes into both the plywood and the concrete. Then, attach.
If you accept copse drill, Asmundo says no pre-drilling is necessary. You can use a approved assignment and copse screws to attach.
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The best important affair is to ensure you are conduct into the absolute sills, not your home.
With plywood in abbreviate supply, some bodies may not be able to get their copse cut on time. Not a lot of absolute architecture accumulation food will cut the copse for you. If necessary, you can artlessly get a beyond allotment of plywood. As continued as you allowance the absolute window and assignment alone into the window sills, Asmundo said that will assignment as a makeshift solution.
If you cannot acquisition any plywood, addition another is adhering board 2x4s to awning your windows, adhering them in the aforementioned way you'd attach the plywood.
“If you accept 2x4s or if you can administer to get abundant together, annihilation that you put over your window that’s solid is activity to save you from bottle accepting burst by debris," Asmundo said.
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