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<![CDATA[Hurricane Shutters Miami - Shutter Blog]]>Sun, 13 May 2012 02:20:44 -0500Weebly<![CDATA[Protect Yourself in the Zombie Apocalypse]]>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:41:19 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/03/protect-yourself-in-the-zombie-apocalypse.htmlAs the season finale for AMC's Walking Dead approaches, you may be wondering what you can do to protect yourself against a Zombie Apocalypse. You may state the obvious like; carry weapons with lots of ammo, locate and maintain a safe food supply, never turn your back on a zombie. One thing you don't want to neglect is your home base.

Sometime after the fall of civilization, your home will be invaded by mobs of hungry zombies. As you start picking them off your home, you will no doubt start thinking about your home's weakest links... your windows.

Tempered glass will be no match for the strength and determination of the undead. Your halfhearted efforts of boarding up your windows with plywood will keep you up at night. The only real solution for such a horrific yet plausible scenario are hurricane shutters.

You will want to at minimum install storm panels, but who really wants to be putting up panels as your home is marauded by "walkers". Look into accordion shutters or rolldown shutters that have met Miami Dade's rigorous anti-zombie protection approval process.

Get them before all hell breaks loose!

www.allworldshutters.com

]]><![CDATA[Stainless Buffalo buffalo]]>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:58:22 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/02/stainless-buffalo-buffalo.html

You should never buffalo a buffalo from Buffalo.

"Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

That sentence probably stumped you. Just like a client stumped me last week. By the way, the buffalo sentence is grammatically correct and I'll show you how in a little.

I was asked, "Why don't you use marine grade stainless steel for shutters installed along the beach?"

I hemmed and hawed through an assertion that the 410 stainless steel tapcon is the industry standard for coastal installations and that marine grade is overkill.

This is what I found out by calling the Powers Corporation (they make screws):

Marine grade stainless steel is softer than the 410 Stainless type
Due to the "softness" of the screw, it would not grasp into the concrete properly
The 410 Stainless tapcon is the strongest, most corrosive resistant fastener on the market for concrete installations.

The meaning of the buffalo sentence becomes clear when you know that buffalo has 3 different definitions and when read like this:
"Buffalo-origin bison that other Buffalo bison intimidate, themselves bully Buffalo bison."
You can thank William J. Rapaport from the University at Buffalo for that linguistic challenge.

]]><![CDATA[Maintain or else!]]>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:48:53 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/02/maintain-or-else.htmlWhat would happen if you left your car in your garage one morning and didn't return for three years? If it didn't get stolen, and it was never turned on, chances are it wouldn't work. What would happen if you went 10,000 miles without an oil change? Your car would hate you!

Like many things in life, without maintenance, things fall apart. The same thing goes with hurricane shutters. Although hurricane shutters manufactured at All World Shutters are composed of high grade aluminum and stainless steel, regular maintenance will make a huge difference down the line.

Accordion shutters are mechanical in nature (they roll across a track). The wheels carry all the weight of the hurricane shutter and coincidentally are the weakest link when it comes to deferred maintenance. If you live along the coast and haven't maintained or at least operated your hurricane shutters regularly, let me know how it goes for you next time you try to close them.

For some more detail about how to properly maintain your accordion shutters, please check out our Maintenance Page. Whether you just got shutters or have had them for years, maintaining your hurricane shutters will prevent an "Oh Darn!" moment for you right before a storm!
]]><![CDATA[What Can Florida Do to Prepare?]]>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:11:26 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/02/what-can-florida-do-to-prepare.htmlYou're doing your part. You've stocked up on supplies and you're now shopping around for hurricane shutters or other forms of hurricane protection. You have a plan in place for before and after the storm. But why hasn't our power company done their role to help our state?

In South Florida, it seems like EVERY powerline is located above ground. It's like we're just asking to go 2 weeks without power after a storm. We have to do something to UPDATE our infrastructure and place those powerlines below ground.

I understand that this may seem like a huge task costing millions of dollars. But how much does it cost FPL to bring down contractors from out of state to repair thousands of overhead powerlines after a storm? Including overtime, double overtime, meals, and other costs associated with supporting their contractors?

When will we learn to hurricane shutter our electrical grid?

]]><![CDATA[Under Pressure]]>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:25:54 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/02/under-pressure.htmlWhen you think of hurricanes, you think of wind speeds. You know the faster the wind blows, the more powerful the storm. When we design hurricane shutters, we think of wind pressures. This is when it starts getting complicated.

During a storm, your home will experience Positive + and Negative - wind pressures. Positive wind pressure is what is blowing against your hurricane shutters. But Negative wind pressure is a force that pulls away from your house and hurricane shutters. The best way to imagine this is as a giant vacuum cleaner trying to suck out your hurricane shutter. What you may not know is that the Negative wind pressures along the corners of your home can be TWICE that of the Positive.

Imagine a hurricane that's twice as powerful as you think! No worries, Miami Dade Approved hurricane shutters are more than capable of handling the forces of tropical systems.

]]><![CDATA[Automate your Hurricane Roll Down Shutters]]>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:30:53 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/02/automate-your-hurricane-roll-down-shutters.htmlImagine this scenario. It's Labor Day weekend 2012 and you and your family are on vacation in Martha's Vineyard (a little lofty). There's a Category 4 monster barreling it's way through the Bahamas and on it's way towards your home in South Florida. But you didn't close your hurricane shutters! What do you do?

If you had your rolldown shutters set up with a Somfy Simu motor and hooked up to the TaHomA system, all you would do is close your shutters using your iPhone. The digital age is here and it has made its way to a shutter near you. The TaHomA Home Automation system communicates with your shutter anywhere in the world and will provide you the peace of mind of knowing your home is safe during a storm.

]]><![CDATA[Insurance Crack Down]]>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:35 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/02/insurance-crack-down.htmlSince the beginning of the year, we've been inundated with requests for hurricane shutters in Miami from homeowners looking to comply with their insurance companies. Almost always, these are people that have responsibly purchased hurricane shutters or hurricane impact windows for the rest of their house but have left out a few openings. Sometimes, for as little as not covering one door with a hurricane shutters, they've been denied a large discount.

If you are in this situation and are afraid to call out a company for just one hurricane shutter, please do not hesitate to call us out.

We'll consult with you on what your options are and make sure you get back into compliance with your ins

]]><![CDATA[Impact Glass in our arsenal]]>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:17:23 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2012/02/impact-glass-in-our-arsenal.htmlAll World Shutters has now been licensed by the Construction Board of Miami Dade County as a glazing contractor. Before your eyes "glaze" over, glazing simply means "glass". Although we are now authorized to manufacture and install all kinds of glass systems, we are committing ourselves to our hurricane protection clients.

AWS is now the closest authorized vendor of AWP LLC, formerly known as Arch Windows. AWP has a complete line of impact glass solutions including impact awning windows.

For more information on our impact window line please

]]><![CDATA["Local Miami Resident Pleasantly Surprised by Hurricane Shutter Company"]]>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:46:32 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2011/06/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit.html

When Osvaldo Zamora shopped around for accordion hurricane shutters back in January 2011, he made sure to ask all the right questions. He was in the middle of a complete home renovation involving roof, painting, and hurricane mitigation. "I'm spending the money, I want to make sure that I'm getting quality work," explained Mr. Zamora when he first met Omar Fagundo, President of All World Shutters, based in Hialeah, Fl.

"All World Shutters was offering me the Bertha High Velocity Accordion Shutter System, the best one I found, for the best price overall. So when his competitors began to tell me that there was NO WAY he could be a legitimate company, I became skeptical."

When it came time to close the deal, Zamora presented Fagundo with his hesitations. "I reassured him that we would do the job to his liking, on his schedule, and at the price I was quoting him for. And I told him he would be happy with the job we did," said Omar.

Four weeks later when Zamora was ready to have his shutters installed, All World Shutters completed the entire job within two days, on time and on budget.

"I'm very satisfied with the work that was done on my house. I would highly recommend All World Shutters to anyone looking for hurricane shutters. They did a phenomenal job! Thanks!" said Mr. Zamora at a post-installation meeting.

]]><![CDATA[Use Protection!]]>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:59:06 -0500http://www.allworldshutters.com/1/post/2011/06/use-protection.htmlThis saying may be cliche but it fits perfectly as a warning. "Use Protection" is short and to the point. It delivers an important message. If you live along the coast and are considering upgrading your home's protection, please do it before it's too late. There's just too much at stake.

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