If you have opted to protect your Venice home with hurricane fabric, great decision. Regarding setup, there are two choices. You may prefer to do it yourself or you might rather hire professional hurricane fabric installers. Each of these options has its pros and cons.

There are several choices to make when safeguarding your family, property, and possessions from hurricanes that may hit your home. These include:

  1. Type of protection product – panels, shutters, screens, or fabric.
  2. The complexity of deployment – how quickly and easily can you set up your home’s protection.
  3. Installation – can you do it yourself, and if so, how difficult is it. Or is hiring a Venice professional a better idea.

Hurricane Fabric

One of the benefits of this product is that it is tailor-made to fit any size opening.

  • Garage
  • Lanai
  • Balcony
  • Doors
  • Archways
  • Windows
  • Openings of unique shapes and sizes

Further, it is lightweight and folds for easy lifting and storage. The hurricane fabric installers at West Shore Construction offer a material that is ballistic rated nylon fabric and almost twice as strong as any other product on the market. It is quickly deployed with a clip system that screws together, so a single person can set it up before a storm comes. Additionally, our material is Florida building code approved for High-Velocity Hurricane Zones.

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Professional Hurricane Fabric Installers

Having experts at West Shore Construction install storm protection fabric for your Venice home is an option that has the benefit of everything being taken care of for you. From start to finish, a professional does it all. There are several layers to setup that require knowledge, skill, and attention to detail.

Steps to take

  1. Qualified hurricane fabric installers will know the building codes in your Venice area, as well as permitting required.
  2. A site map of the house will is created and the openings numbering.
  3. They will accurately measure all openings. Including extra inches as needed around each opening. This primarily depends on whether you have a concrete structure (filled or hollow concrete masonry) or wood framing.
  4. Hurricane fabric installers do the calculations and order the material from the manufacturer. This will include the correct number of clips for each opening to be covered for your Venice home.
  5. They perform the initial installation –
    1. Accurately measuring the distance between clips and securing the eight or so screws that hold the hurricane fabric between the back and front of the clip. Screwing the clips to the fabric.
    2. Measuring, drilling, and cleaning four to fifteen holes on each of two to four sides of all the openings.
    3. Securing fabric clips to the face of the house.
  6. Each piece of fabric gets labeled to indicate which side faces out and which piece corresponds to each numbered opening (step 2).

After the initial set up is complete, the hurricane fabric installers will provide you with the site map of your Venice home. This ensures that you know which panel goes where and how to orient them. We will also show you how to put the panels up so that you are ready when a storm comes. you will also know how to take them down and store them.

Doing It Yourself

The benefit of you personally setting up storm protection for your house is saving money that would otherwise pay for a Venice professional installer. Every step in the process that expert hurricane fabric installers take is a step that you would also execute. If you are handy, this may be what you are willing to do.

If you would like a hybrid solution, West Shore Construction can help you with measuring, ordering, and installation.

Call Us Today

Connect with West Coast Construction by calling 727-488-8182 or sending us a message. Our knowledgeable consultants will answer your questions and discuss different options. We will be happy to visit you and give you a quote based on your needs.

Providing Venice and surrounding area residents with outstanding service and quality products have been the hallmark of our company for over 30 years. Licensed and Certified, we only work with the most skilled tradesmen in every field. If your needs extend beyond hurricane fabric installers, please explore our array of offerings. We offer motorized screens, impact windows, accordion shutters, Bahama and Colonial shutters and more!