welcome back to River City live
hurricane season is here and there's
nothing more important than protecting
yourself and your home and that is why
FHI a florida home-improvement
associates are here to give us some tips
and help us out at grenada welcome to
River City live thanks for having me
well we're looking at some windows right
here and you've got to have a line of
defense obviously against hurricanes but
before we even get into that can you
tell us just a little bit about your
company your companies the largest
replacement window company in the state
of Florida we have offices throughout
the entire state and we do certainly
like to educate homeowners on the
importance of protecting their families
in their homes for the hurricane season
and we like to provide the education
necessary to for homeowners to make a
really informed decision as to what's
best for them and then do great
installation so let's start out with
hurricane windows or the kind of windows
that will be better protection against
hurricanes now Jacksonville's kind of a
different animal you said yeah yeah well
Jacksonville a lot of the homeowners
aren't required to have her connection
but certainly because of Matthew two
years ago in Arma last year a lot of the
homeowners we meet with at least want to
have and hear about the options that are
available and then they recognize that
it's it's a more affordable than they
think and it's important to protect
their home the best they can now at the
very least and I know you say you have
different all different kinds of glass I
see you have a few different different
things here but now a hurricane glass
can still break am i right
yeah absolutely it's still glass so
depending on how we order the window and
the glass if it's a flying debris
hitting glass at high speeds it could
damage the glass and crack the glass but
it doesn't come into the house you don't
have that roof flying off yeah we don't
want the glass to breach then the
hurricane gets into the home has nowhere
to go and that's where you lose roof and
that's where you lose a lot of your
possessions and it's a lot a lot of
people would have been a lot better off
had they had this protection these last
couple of times around now energy is
another big thing that comes into play
when you're considering which windows
yeah
hurricane protection is just one aspect
of the glass and there's also a lot of
energy efficient options we can go so
it's great when we have the opportunity
to meet with families to show them all
the options that are available whether
we just want to protect from a hurricane
or we want to make the home more
energy-efficient or certainly both
there's a lot of benefits the different
types of glass so it's best
just to make sure you know all the
options before you make your bet that
your decision when you're purchasing a
new home and the windows are already in
I know that you might have questions
about what you're looking at and you
certainly have an opportunity maybe to
upgrade and make sure that you're
protecting this great purchase of your
home and everything that's inside of it
but if someone comes out and installs
them you want to make sure too that the
installation is done correctly how do
you even know yeah and that's the that's
one of the things that's concerning for
a homeowner because we in Florida rely
on this insecurity of the inspection
process where it's Building Code they
got a permit everything was inspected is
it done right well what we've learned
and certainly what we try to help
homeowners see is you know the building
process is just the minimum means when
you remove a window from your home you
at least have to do it to this standard
it doesn't mean it was done the best way
possible so it's really something that
homeowners really need to educate
themselves on to determine how they want
the glass ordered how they want it
installed and what's the best route to
take yeah because that's exactly what I
was getting at you know you're walking
into this place and and this is going to
be where you live and where your family
is and everything you own and the
protection is key let's talk about
warranties yes is something you do
that's very unique yeah we deal with a
lot of different manufacturers because
of the size of our company we have a
great great relationship with several
different manufacturers however one
right now has given us the opportunity
that if it's installed by Florida home
improvements they're gonna cover full
guarantee on everything all the moving
parts all the glass everything regarding
the the window so even if it were to
crack in a hurricane the manufacturer
would send us a brand new product and
pay for us to put it in so there would
be no additional cost to the homeowner
and the great part the when this
promotion is the warranties are
transferable so if you were to sell the
home they would be transferable to the
next homeowner that's fantastic let's
give that website so people can find FHA
products.com okay there you have it and
it's been on your screen a little bit
too FHA products.com at least some
stress could be taken off of our
shoulders during the hurricane season if
we knew that our windows were the best
they could be for that situation so
thank you so much for joining us today
thanks again for having me I'll be back