Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101
I'm Bob and today I'm going to show you how to properly install hurricane protection on your doors
and the same thing can be used on your windows. So let's get started.
Okay, so I have here the items that you're going to need to install protection in a masonry wall.
I have here masonry bits. These are 1/4" diameter hex heads by 3-1/4" long.
I have some deck screws, small ones. These are about an 1-1/4" long, #8's.
I have my impact drill.
I have my Bosch Bulldog hammer drill.
Those are basically the items you need. I have my other battery drill here, cordless, but I don't think I need this.
This is just a backup in case I need it.
I have a hex driver to drive in the masonry screws.
I have one #2 square drive. This hex driver is 5/16" it's magnetized. So it just sticks in there.
Okay, so what I'm going to do as far as materials for this door we're going to protect this door
and this is for demonstration purposes.
I have here some two by fours that you can see are just laid out they're not screwed down yet.
Okay, this is a frame and the reason why, if you come over here, there's the reason why.
I'm doing that is because I couldn't take just a piece of a plywood
running it across here because we have the door hardware and by
the door Hardware being here okay that is gonna create a problem.
So what I did is I cut two by fours; i pre-cut this already. I have two by fours
and you should use the thickest plywood you can get and this is 23/32" plywood.
It's almost equal to 3/4" thick in thickness.
You can see that thickness here. So if something was to blow and try to try to penetrate
the plywood, it would be very hard-pressed to get through the plywood
and again in a hurricane with 165 mile an hour winds, anything is possible.
If you really feel you really want to make sure nothing goes through your windows
you can double up on your plywood if you like.
So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to attach these pieces of 2x4 and I slid them underneath.
Before when you saw them they were on top. To simplify the installation this is the fastest way to do it
because when you're warned of a Hurricane coming your way time is of the essence.
So here's the quickest way and the way that I would do it if I was installing hurricane protection.
This will be quick, easy and painless and you'll see how fast and painless this is.
So I'm gonna grab my hammer drill. I'm gonna grab some deck screws
and this is only for purposes of pinning the two by fours to the plywood.
To hold it just in place until I get it up on the door and then I'm just gonna
drill straight through with the masonry screws and the hammer drill.
Like I said, this is only to hold the two by fours onto the plywood just to make things easy and simple.
So we're just tacking these in like so.
Okay, that's all I want to do. I've tacked them on there.
So now what I'm going to do
is gonna pull my cart over here close by the door and you should have some
type of working cart or something that you can put your tools on just makes the job a lot easier to get done.
I'm gonna pick this up now and spin it around.
Actually, not spin it around just pick it up. Place (it) like so. Now you can see the backside of it
All the 2 x 4s are now fasteners to the plywood.
Stick it up on the door.
I'm gonna pull it over a little bit. Get it centered.
I'm gonna do that. Now i'm going to take my hammer drill and i'm going to drill right through.
Make sure you that you don't over-drill into the masonry wall.
You know, you can go too deep.
I'm gonna switch out my bit; square drive.
So my knuckle driver, get that in there.
I have 3-1/4" here. You want to make sure that you basically go in
one inch at minimal into the substrate.
I only put in here three screws on each side. This is NOT coming off.
Okay, you can put more screws if you want but I think at the end of the day
you will not be removing this. 150-165 mile an hour winds? This is going nowhere.
You can do the same thing on your windows. If you don't have hardware on your windows,
then you could just cut the piece of plywood to the size that you need
and you can probably screw right into your window mullions and that should do you.
A lot of houses in Florida, North Carolina, along the islands, the Virgin Islands and everything
have masonry walls and Tapcons, masonry bits
we sell on our website. You can pick those up we're shipping them out every day.
It's the best product and that's really what you need.
Also you should know, how easy after the hurricanes over and you want to remove the protection.
Take the drill and put it in reverse
and just go on and put your hex driver on there. Then just take the screws, the masonry screws, out.
And you can reuse this again. So you're ready for next time.
It seems like they're going to be growing on us these hurricanes,
as to what they're saying.
You use the same holes over again so just have to have the same size screw.
That's how you install and uninstall hurricane protection quickly.