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Posted by MiamiCuse on February 19, 2007, 11:59 am
Question about hurricane proof garage doors in Miami, FL.
I understand all new doors in south Florida need to be hurricane proof
doors. Does anyone know what exactly that means?
It is a special kind of doors or does it mean a special way of installing
the door with reinforcement?
Thanks,
MC
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Posted by jerryl on February 19, 2007, 12:07 pm
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> Question about hurricane proof garage doors in Miami, FL.
> I understand all new doors in south Florida need to be hurricane proof
> doors. Does anyone know what exactly that means?
> It is a special kind of doors or does it mean a special way of installing
> the door with reinforcement?
> Thanks,
> MC
Hurricane garage doors are very susceptible to blowing out in a hurricane
thus allowing the wind to enter the house, blow out the windows and possibly
lift the roof. Most garage doors in Florida are metal doors. What they do is
put horizontal metal braces across the door. Then they give you at least
one vertical brace (usually stored on the door itself). This vertical brace
would be placed on brackets installed on the door and then into a socket on
the garage floor. This would prevent the wind from blowing the door in.
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Posted by MiamiCuse on February 19, 2007, 12:13 pm
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>> Question about hurricane proof garage doors in Miami, FL.
>> I understand all new doors in south Florida need to be hurricane proof
>> doors. Does anyone know what exactly that means?
>> It is a special kind of doors or does it mean a special way of installing
>> the door with reinforcement?
>> Thanks,
>> MC
> Hurricane garage doors are very susceptible to blowing out in a hurricane
> thus allowing the wind to enter the house, blow out the windows and
> possibly lift the roof. Most garage doors in Florida are metal doors. What
> they do is put horizontal metal braces across the door. Then they give
> you at least one vertical brace (usually stored on the door itself). This
> vertical brace would be placed on brackets installed on the door and then
> into a socket on the garage floor. This would prevent the wind from
> blowing the door in.
Thanks, so if it's a standard metal door, the other hurricane proof measures
(bracing) and done at install time?
MC
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Posted by JimR on February 20, 2007, 6:58 pm
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>>> Question about hurricane proof garage doors in Miami, FL.
>>> I understand all new doors in south Florida need to be hurricane proof
>>> doors. Does anyone know what exactly that means?
>>> It is a special kind of doors or does it mean a special way of
>>> installing the door with reinforcement?
>>> Thanks,
>>> MC
>> Hurricane garage doors are very susceptible to blowing out in a hurricane
>> thus allowing the wind to enter the house, blow out the windows and
>> possibly lift the roof. Most garage doors in Florida are metal doors.
>> What they do is put horizontal metal braces across the door. Then they
>> give you at least one vertical brace (usually stored on the door itself).
>> This vertical brace would be placed on brackets installed on the door and
>> then into a socket on the garage floor. This would prevent the wind from
>> blowing the door in.
> Thanks, so if it's a standard metal door, the other hurricane proof
> measures (bracing) and done at install time?
> MC
There is more than one level of hurricane wind protection. As I understand
it, it works this way --
-- 1. Basic metal garage door composed of about 5 horizontal sections.
No special hurricane protection
-- 2. Basic door, with each section reinforced with a u-shaped
horizontal brace that goes across the middle of each section. When you buy
door panels the reinforcements come in a separate package that you then
mount on the door panels. AFAIK This is the standard requirement for
Florida except for the Miami-Dade / Ft. Lauderdale area. It may be possible
to retrofit an older door to this level by buying and installing the
horizontal reinforcements.
-- 3. The reinforced door, with an additional vertical post which
provides additional bracing. I think, without confirmation, that this meets
the requirements for Miami-Dade.
I have the type 2 door, above. It went through five hurricanes in 2004-5
without any problems. The only damage was when an itinerant handiman came
around looking for hurricane clean-up work and accidentally backed into the
garage door, then took off without telling me about it --
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Posted by gfretwell on February 20, 2007, 7:59 pm
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>There is more than one level of hurricane wind protection. As I understand
>it, it works this way --
> -- 1. Basic metal garage door composed of about 5 horizontal sections.
>No special hurricane protection
> -- 2. Basic door, with each section reinforced with a u-shaped
>horizontal brace that goes across the middle of each section. When you buy
>door panels the reinforcements come in a separate package that you then
>mount on the door panels. AFAIK This is the standard requirement for
>Florida except for the Miami-Dade / Ft. Lauderdale area. It may be possible
>to retrofit an older door to this level by buying and installing the
>horizontal reinforcements.
> -- 3. The reinforced door, with an additional vertical post which
>provides additional bracing. I think, without confirmation, that this meets
>the requirements for Miami-Dade.
>I have the type 2 door, above. It went through five hurricanes in 2004-5
>without any problems. The only damage was when an itinerant handiman came
>around looking for hurricane clean-up work and accidentally backed into the
>garage door, then took off without telling me about it --
After Andrew the Florida building code was upgraded and as of 2002
there was a unified FBC that makes the "Miami/Dade" references
obsolete. The new coastal code that affects all of peninsular Florida
and close to the beach meets or exceeds the old Miami code (the 130MPH
zone), Areas near the beach in South West Florida are in the 140 zone
and the SE coastal zone plus the Keys is 150.
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> I understand all new doors in south Florida need to be hurricane proof
> doors. Does anyone know what exactly that means?
> It is a special kind of doors or does it mean a special way of installing
> the door with reinforcement?
> Thanks,
> MC