FORTIFIED Silver™
Secure the roof and reinforce the most vulnerable areas of your home to give it the best chance to keep wind, rain and storm pressures out. FORTIFIED Silver™ was specifically designed to reinforce the areas of your home conventional construction can leave susceptible to damage from high winds and wind-driven rain.
FORTIFIED ROOF
When protecting against severe weather, your roof is your home’s first line of defense. It’s also the most vulnerable. FORTIFIED Silver includes all the requirements of FORTIFIED Roof – including enhanced nailing, a sealed roof deck and locked down edges – to give your home its best chance of weathering a storm.
BRACED FOR A STORM
Post-disaster studies show that typical construction often leaves gable-ends, chimneys and attached structures insufficiently anchored. As a result, storms can leave large holes in your house or even cause a portion of your home to collapse. FORTIFIED Silver prevents this by requiring strong anchors and additional bracing to reinforce these areas.
STRONGER GARAGE DOORS
Keeping winds and pressure from entering your home is critical for its survival in a storm. Both can easily come through a failed garage door, and once this happens, it’s common to see blown-out walls and collapsed roofs. FORTIFIED prevents this scenario by requiring garage doors rated to withstand high pressures.
For superior protection from hurricanes, tornadoes and other severe weather events, choose FORTIFIED Gold.
The National Standard for Resilience
* Required in Hurricane Prone Areas Only
** Required for the optional Hail
Supplement to a FORTIFIED designation.
FAQs
Ceiling repair times are heavily variable depending on the amount of damage received. For minor drywall repairs, a ceiling replacement can be completed within a few hours of starting. However, if an entire ceiling needs replacing, one should expect such a project to take multiple days to remove and replace all the drywall.
Depending on the severity of your leak, water stains can appear on ceilings anywhere from an hour to a few days following the initial seepage. Keep in mind that all because the water leak is new to you doesn’t mean that the leak just occurred. The water could have been seeping into your house for days and thus, should be addressed immediately.
Fixing the leak is the most essential part of getting rid of wet spots on a ceiling; to prevent the spots from returning. After the leak is fixed, clean the spots with a bleach solution to remove any dirt, mold, or other debris that may have come with the water. Then, use a stain blocker and repaint the entire ceiling to create a unified look.
Yes! Leaks won’t fix themselves. Even the smallest of leaks will continue to compromise the integrity of the structure leading to more problems down the road unless the problem is fixed. The quicker a roof leak can be addressed, the less damages it can cost to your roof and the rest of your house.