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Hurricane Cables
09/17/08 - 09:04 AM
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Mark Jenkins - bio

Bay County, Fla:

A Bay County contractor is using new ways to hurricane proof homes.  Benny Moore with Moore Brother’s construction uses cables to connect your walls and roof instead of clips.  He says it’s more reliable and costs the same. 

When a hurricane comes through it tries to pull the roof off the house.  Moore says his cable system holds all the trusses in place.  “We take a quarter inch cable we thread it up through the hole up over the trusses and back down.  Bolt it to the gold bolts at the bottom.  They’re all embedded in concrete and tighten it to the tension we want. So there’s 7,000 lbs.”

Hurricane clips hold 365 lbs. of uplift.  “Our cable system goes over 3-4 trusses and we hold 7,000 lbs. Uplift.  We go over the top of the truss, they go underneath it.  Clip material off this house would be about $.65 a square foot, versus $.65 a square foot for the cable system.  The same price.  Hurricane clips it’d take two men two days to do this whole house.  With cable system it’d take three guys four hours to do this.  We haven’t had any problems on it.  We’re the only ones in town using this cable system.  We’ve been using it about three years.”

You can learn more about the cable system by calling Benny Moore at 866-8470.

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