Small Home Repairs and Office Build-Outs Blog

A blog about hurricane windows, impact windows, impact resistant windows, tenant improvement and much more…

Posts Tagged ‘tenant improvement’

Choosing Hurricane Windows

If you live in a hurricane-prone coastal area, then hurricane windows are one of the best ways to protect your home in the event of a severe storm. Unlike ordinary windows, hurricane windows are designed to withstand impacts by debris flying at speeds at over 100mph. Hurricane windows are generally constructed with a combination of [...]

Read more >

Hurricane Windows and Tornadoes

Hurricanes, cyclones, tropical storms: they’re formidable, powerful forces of nature that can easily destroy buildings with and without hurricane windows. One of the deadliest types of storm is the tornado, which can sweep up anything and everything in its path. A tornado is a swirling, violent, rotating column of air that’s connected to both the [...]

Read more >

Design/Build Tenant Improvements

When it comes to tenant improvements, two classic models are the design/bid/ build method and the design/build method. The design/build method of making tenant improvements is a little more collaborative than the design/bid/build method, which is more linear, each party having their own separate role. Since the design/bid/build method is more common in construction, today’s [...]

Read more >

Office Build-outs: What’s Involved, Exactly?

Turn-key commercial space is only as good as its ability to meet your every changing needs. You recognize that. You feel it every day, in fact. And it’s time for a change. So you’re interested in office  build-outs. But you’re asking yourself, what exactly would the process be? What’s the magic number of steps involved [...]

Read more >

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 [...]

Read more >

Along The Gulf, Hurricane Windows Face Hurricane Alex

If you live in the Gulf Coast region, you probably have hurricane windows on your home. You’ve seen your share of bad weather in the past few years–and it isn’t stopping, either. Hurricane Alex is the latest troublemaker, causing turbulent seas that are disrupting the BP oil spill clean-up. As a resident of the region, [...]

Read more >

4 Key Teams Involved in Tenant Improvement

Most tenant improvement projects leave little wiggle room for errors, so it’s imperative that you put the project in the hands of a capable team qualified to give you the results you want–a team like TI Contractors. These large teams of people employed on these projects is a huge reason tenant improvement differs from residential [...]

Read more >

Want to Sell Your Home? Here’s a Small Home Repairs Checklist

If you’re looking to sell your home for maximum profit you’re going to have to inspect it top to bottom, to ensure that it’s in top-condition. With this handy checklist, you should be able to gauge what small home repairs you can do yourself and what repairs you should call TI Contractors to assist you [...]

Read more >

Are Shutters or Impact Windows Better in the Face of a Storm?

For a while, shutters really took the cake when came to optimal protection, but with the latest technological advances in impact windows and stringent testing they must go through, they offer supreme benefits as well. If you can’t decide between impact windows and hurricane shutters, here are a few pros and cons of each: Hurricane [...]

Read more >

What Makes Windows Certified Hurricane Windows?

Hurricane windows must meet certain guidelines to labeled and sold as such. The American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM) regulates these guidelines, and have put forth some pretty strict standards for them. For example, in south Florida, the building code states that all homes constructed after July 2001 must have hurricane shutters or impact [...]

Read more >