Wind Protection

[ASH]

Unless your insurance company is forcing you into reinforcing the home, I'd go with retro-fit and save the money on an older home.
Consider the whole building envelope in a retro-fit.
Rule #1: The roof must be tied to the top floor must be tied to the bottom floor must be tied to the foundation must be tied to the center of the earth or they each will act alone when they get scared by the nature lady.

Won't do you any good to make the roof stronger if the windows blow out.

Won't do you any good to update the windows just to have your roof sucked off.

And don't forget that garage door of an attached garage because when the garage pressurizes and gets ripped off the home, it takes that "internal built" shared with the home wall with it and....then you...probably exceed....that 10% rule I mentioned earlier.
Alright, enough education for today. My brain hurts and I'm going home. I'll be back in the morn.

 

[AAbsolute]

Windy, windy morning in Watersound Beach today.

 

[Matt J]

TFT, the other option is quite the redneck option I saw once. It involved 2x4's stacked to come out past the trim and placed over the center of the two doors. This was then attached to a 2x6 backed by a 4x4. This whole contraption was then anchored into the ceiling floor and had a 45 degree brace also attached to the floor. This was all done on wood floors. The funny thing is that while it works it was probably the cost of 3/4 plywood to cover the whole door.

I've actually seen rentals that left the lexan on highup hard to reach windows, windows with no view, and windows to rooms that don't need windows like bathrooms and closets.

ASH is very right in post 31, if you've seen those pictures of whole roof systems sitting down the block from the original house it really illustrates his point. Great trusses and roofing subcontrator, bad framer who didn't attach the rafters very well.

 

[AAbsolute]

TFT, the other option is quite the redneck option I saw once. It involved 2x4's stacked to come out past the trim and placed over the center of the two doors. This was then attached to a 2x6 backed by a 4x4. This whole contraption was then anchored into the ceiling floor and had a 45 degree brace also attached to the floor. This was all done on wood floors. The funny thing is that while it works it was probably the cost of 3/4 plywood to cover the whole door.

I've actually seen rentals that left the lexan on highup hard to reach windows, windows with no view, and windows to rooms that don't need windows like bathrooms and closets.

ASH is very right in post 31, if you've seen those pictures of whole roof systems sitting down the block from the original house it really illustrates his point. Great trusses and roofing subcontrator, bad framer who didn't attach the rafters very well.

There are a number of vendors out now who specialize in hold down protections. We used the threaded rod method from the foundation through the entire uplift path to the top plate for years. Then an H-10 or H-14 for rafters. We've found that using one of the specialty contractors probably does a better job. Their work also comes with Stamped Engineered as builts when complete.