If you design and build within 1 mile of the coast anywhere in the eastern US from Texas to New England, you should be using hurricane impact tested and approved windows and doors.

If you design and build within 1 mile of the coast anywhere in the eastern US from Texas to New England, you should be using hurricane impact tested and approved windows and doors.

Not just the 2x4 impact test but the cyclic wind pressure testing by an independent laboratory 3,500 cycles at pressures from a 170 mph wind. Some manufacturers may use laminated glass in their assembly and say it is impact resistant but if they have not been independently tested and approved they will likely fail under real hurricane conditions.

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