Place the plywood over the opening and mark each hole position on the outside wall.
Plywood for wind mitigation for windows and doors.
Use heavy duty screws and anchors in wood or expansion bolts in masonry to attach the plywood to your home s walls not the window frames.
However putting up plywood or storm shutters is time consuming and may require more than one person to lift heavy panels into place.
To minimize damage to your home during a hurricane windows and doors should be boarded up with 5 8 plywood or covered with approved storm shutters.
Plywood shutters can be punctured by airborne objects but the florida building commission believes the puncture will be too small to do catastrophic damage in our anticipated wind speeds.
Cut sheets of 1 2 or 5 8 inch thick plywood.
Covering your windows and doors with plywood should only be used as a temporary emergency board up option not a permanent solution.
Make sure you overlap window frames by a good 8 inches all around.
Set aside a weekend to measure cut and pre install all the plywood for a typical house.
Pre install screw anchors around window openings to speed up installation.
Drill holes 2 1 2 inches from the outside edge of the plywood at each corner and at 12 inch intervals.
A contractor might charge between 3 5 sq.
Taking the time to board up your home when a hurricane is approaching and evacuation is imminent is not always wise.
If you do the work yourself.
Cut the plywood to the measurements for each opening.