New Home Protection Products
PLYLOX™ Hurricane Window Clips
PLYLOX™ window clips are the ingenious, inexpensive, non-destructive way to protect your windows from high winds and airborne debris. Installed in seconds, PLYLOX™ window clips slide onto the edge of a 1/2" plywood sheet, which is then easily inserted into the exterior window casings of your home or business. No drilling holes. After protecting your home or business from high winds and flying debris, the plywood can be removed in seconds without tools.
What Are PLYLOX™?
PLYLOX™ window clips are patented h-shaped carbon steel clips engineered to fit 1/2" plywood without nails, screws or adhesives. There is no longer any need to drill holes in brick in order to protect your windows from storm damage.
How do PLYLOX™ window Clips work?
Head-on gusts of wind will hold covers in place no matter how they are mounted. But wind blowing across the face of the plywood generates lift that can pull the cover out of the casing. PLYLOX window clips transfer the outward force of the lift through their tension legs. This transfer of energy forces the clip against the casing and holds the cover securely in place in the worst possible conditions.
Hurricane Fabric
How Hurricane Winds affect your house:
As hurricane force winds strike the side of a building and are redirected over the roof, the wind speed can accelerate by as much as 30% going over the top. This vacuum puts a tremendous upward strain on the roof, much like the lift of an airplane wing. Any sudden positive pressure change created by a window or door blowing in will force the roof to yield to this pressure and fly off, creating the maximum breach of safety for the inhabitants and the ultimate property damage. With the primary structural component of a building gone, the building is declared a total loss and must be rebuilt from the ground up.
How Hurricane Fabric helps:
The flexible fabric membrane installed across the opening outside each window or door actually catches and abates the major force of the wind, allowing only about 3% of the wind to penetrate the fabric. In other words, with a 100 MPH wind hitting the fabric dead on, the wind force between the fabric barrier and the opening is a mere 3 MPH, not enough to create anywhere near the sudden pressure change required to lift the roof. Even in the event of a hit by debris and possible glass breakage, which can happen even with hard coverings, there would still be no major pressure change from the outside to the inside that could cause the demise of the roof and structure.