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  • Justin Gregoli December 11, 2008 at 1:14pm
    I am not sure at this point.
    I was curious. We have a fair amount of customers inquire about screen enclosures and it something that I have considered.
    When and if you decide anything let me know, I am always looking for interesting products to offer in my area (Maryland and Delaware).
    Justin


    Todd said:
    Hi Justin,

    We will build and install in all of Florida and the South East particularly custom. We do plan on franchising or offering distribution. What is your interest?

    Thanks,

    Todd

    Justin Gregoli said:
    Todd,
    Is this available now?
    Are you able to ship all over the states?
    What are the details?

    Looks like a great product
    Justin
  • TRE December 11, 2008 at 12:19pm
    I assume you guys live in Florida? Field experience? You are correct that the wind(except for the twisting winds of a tornado) only bring down those things that resist it(such as solid walls that are not brick with rebar). Flying objects are indeed an issue. With that said MOST(90%) enclosures survived the Cat 3 back to back of Charlie/Frances. Most of our damage was from either trees, incorrectly installed enclosures(not anchored to the footer or deck properly) or tornadoes which caused most enclosure total losses. The windzone requirements of Dade county are 140mph not 110mph. Not all enclosures were toppled in South Central Florida(near Jupiter) where Frances came on board either. It varied with windzone exposure such as open beach or lake or a subdivision closely surrounded by houses. Other mitigating factors were such as if you had an insulated or pan roof attached to the house side of the enclosure that provided lift. That in and of itself caused enclosure damage.

    David Bauer said:
    Hurricane proof and wind resistant anything is a joke. Yes, it might stand up to a certain speed of wind, but put OBJECTS in that wind and all bets are off. Solid matter in wind of the speeds I see these ratings at are simply missles. I remember seeing something on tv where they launched a 2X4 at a cinderblock wall at 110mph (one of the standards for wind resistant windows in Florida, the Dade county standard)...it blew right through the blocks. Stopping wind is one thing, put stuff in the wind, you're out of luck.
  • David Bauer December 11, 2008 at 12:06pm
    Hurricane proof and wind resistant anything is a joke. Yes, it might stand up to a certain speed of wind, but put OBJECTS in that wind and all bets are off. Solid matter in wind of the speeds I see these ratings at are simply missles. I remember seeing something on tv where they launched a 2X4 at a cinderblock wall at 110mph (one of the standards for wind resistant windows in Florida, the Dade county standard)...it blew right through the blocks. Stopping wind is one thing, put stuff in the wind, you're out of luck.
  • TRE December 11, 2008 at 11:24am
    Hi Justin,

    We will build and install in all of Florida and the South East particularly custom. We do plan on franchising or offering distribution. What is your interest?

    Thanks,

    Todd

    Justin Gregoli said:
    Todd,
    Is this available now?
    Are you able to ship all over the states?
    What are the details?

    Looks like a great product
    Justin
  • TRE December 11, 2008 at 11:22am
    I will tell you that that just because of airflow in straight line winds that the full wall of a house stands to go before the design of this enclosure. I would be bet dollars to doughnuts that in a catastrophic cat 3 or higher that the enclosure may lose the foam, would not lose the posts and in fact the posts may help hold the near wall down because of the attachment to the rafter tails. In our tests in the yard, we had to hit a 2x7 wall post with rebar/concrete pinned into the concrete with an old truck at above 10mph just to move it....so as we saw with the hurricanes in 2004 in central florida.....enclosures built before 2001 did ok against straight line winds unless they had just been rescreened. If they had just rescreened the spline and new screen presented opportunity to catch the wind as oppose to tearing out. Most cages that we replaced were from tornadic winds or trees, not straightline winds.
  • Justin Gregoli December 11, 2008 at 10:53am
    Todd,
    Is this available now?
    Are you able to ship all over the states?
    What are the details?

    Looks like a great product
    Justin
  • TRE December 11, 2008 at 4:32am
    The columns are encapsilated in foam but here is the interesting part. We have a "patent pending" design on our enclosures where we use 2 pcs of rebar(size according to wall post width) welded together and pinned 5" into the footer that run the height of each wall post. We then backfill each post(including the sidewall posts) with concrete. The roof beams have a high grade styrafoam in them as well. Code and windzone would have required on a span like this 2x10 roof beams sitting on 2x9 wall posts with 4-5' center spacing for the front wall...but with this notice that we have 10' spacing and I believe on this job 2x7's sitting on 2x6's. Summary is about 1/2 the metal 20 times the strength and giving double the visibility keeping the price within about 10% of the other style. We build everything including the architectural foam in house.

    Wesley Whitfield said:
    Looks nice. What are the columns and arches made from?
    Hurricance Proof Screen Enclosures
    Anyone up to speed on these?
  • Wesley Whitfield December 10, 2008 at 7:44pm
    Looks nice. What are the columns and arches made from?
  • TRE December 10, 2008 at 7:04pm


    look at this and tell me what you think. then I will share the details
  • Wesley Whitfield December 10, 2008 at 6:59pm
    I do not think there is anything that is hurricane proof. If you build to the Florida 140 mph wind load, the screen will stand as long as the roof of the house does not come off.
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