board vents to attic and whirlybirds?????
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board vents to attic and whirlybirds?????
we are in stuart fl and have been told to do this so they won"t fly of leave hole in roof. need info asap thanks mel
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Just went through this with Charley. After planning our evacuation drill, when it came time I completely spaced on our roof vent. When I returned Charley had blown back the tin cover and it was sticking 90 degrees straight up, leaving a big hole in the roof open to the sky. I examined the attic and it looked like it took little or no rain. Lucky Charley was a sprinter.
We had cut and left several plywood sections sized to be nailed over the holes before leaving. Anyway, when I returned I placed towels shoved into the 8 inch-wide holes and they have worked since. It is impossible to get roofers to come for our minor damage since they are taking the big ticket jobs first. So far, the towels are working 100% and no rain has even wet them on the inside in the few downpours we've had since. We're lucky that the big Florida deluges have held off since Charley here. As luck has it the hard downpours push the blown-up cover back over the hole when they rain down on it.
If you are really inventive, size some plywood and nail it in place over the holes. Then seal it with injectable foam around the edges.
Charley took the lanai off 1/4 of the deck like the hand of God. He blew our covered porch fans into closed flower petals and ripped one off and shot it into the kitchen shutter punching the window out of its frame through the closed shutter. If not for the shutter that would have shot through and brought the hurricane inside.
Our next-door neighbor had half their tin-roof blown-off. It is sitting upside-down in their front yard.
I really wish I had stayed for Charley because it was just the right intensity to experience a real hurricane - but not enough to be life-threatening in a tight house. But I left because a normal category 4 is suicidal to stay for on this barrier island. I would have been freaking out when that window punched through and the lanai tore away...
We had cut and left several plywood sections sized to be nailed over the holes before leaving. Anyway, when I returned I placed towels shoved into the 8 inch-wide holes and they have worked since. It is impossible to get roofers to come for our minor damage since they are taking the big ticket jobs first. So far, the towels are working 100% and no rain has even wet them on the inside in the few downpours we've had since. We're lucky that the big Florida deluges have held off since Charley here. As luck has it the hard downpours push the blown-up cover back over the hole when they rain down on it.
If you are really inventive, size some plywood and nail it in place over the holes. Then seal it with injectable foam around the edges.
Charley took the lanai off 1/4 of the deck like the hand of God. He blew our covered porch fans into closed flower petals and ripped one off and shot it into the kitchen shutter punching the window out of its frame through the closed shutter. If not for the shutter that would have shot through and brought the hurricane inside.
Our next-door neighbor had half their tin-roof blown-off. It is sitting upside-down in their front yard.
I really wish I had stayed for Charley because it was just the right intensity to experience a real hurricane - but not enough to be life-threatening in a tight house. But I left because a normal category 4 is suicidal to stay for on this barrier island. I would have been freaking out when that window punched through and the lanai tore away...
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