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Impact Resistant Windows: You Never You Know What Might Hit You
Impact resistant windows aren’t just important in hurricane season.
Once, when I was a kid, my cousin drove his car right through the picture window of the neighbor’s house. Another time, a bird flew directly into our sliding glass doors on the patio. I saw the whole thing, to my dismay. I was reading the Family Circus cartoon at the kitchen table, when boom, the bird hit. It went down like it’d been shot, but not before putting a long fracture in the glass. (My dad let us have a funeral in the back yard later that evening.)
People without impact resistant windows are far more susceptible to vandalism and robbery. I don’t know if my family is cursed or something, but my grandparents’ home was broken into this way. They’d been living in the same place since 1954, and still had the original windows on the house. I remember sitting and watching the sun play on the warps in the glass. It was lovely, but did not protect them when thieves came one night. Luckily, they were unharmed, but it was scary. A lot of heirloom jewelry was taken, not to mention a less precious but much enjoyed TV/VCR combo we’d bought them that Christmas.
Now that the technology for impact resistant windows is available and affordable, it’s just asking for trouble–and ultimately, extra expense–to choose anything but.
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Posted on: Monday, July 12th, 2010 at 9:00 am
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Tags: hurricane windows, impact resistant windows, impact windows, office build-outs, small home repairs, tenant improvement