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Why Should Advanced Roofing & Construction Be Your #1 Choice for Roof Inspection?

100% Reliable Roof Inspection

In Huntsville, AL

Why Choose Houston Roofing For Your Roof Inspection?

  • 100+ Years Of Combined Experience
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INTRODUCTION

The FORTIFIED Home™–Hurricane standard provides program requirements for hurricaneprone regions of the United States. This program applies to homes located on Caribbean Islands, Hawaii, and along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts in areas where the design wind speed is greater than 90 mph as specified in ASCE 7-98 through ASCE 7-05 or 115 mph as specified in ASCE 7-10 through ASCE 7-16. The primary goal is to protect homes and their contents by improving the home’s resistance to hurricane winds and wind effects.

Eligible Dwellings

The following is a list of property types that are eligible for a FORTIFIED Home–Hurricane
designation. New and existing homes can qualify.

Single-family detached home

a freestanding residential building occupied by one family. Limited to three stories above grade. This also includes detached single-family factory-built modular homes that are designed, built, and sited to meet all local building code requirements.

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Two-family dwelling units (duplex)

a freestanding residential building occupied by two families. Limited to three stories above grade. Note: The entire two-family building, which includes both dwelling units, must be evaluated under the ppropriate FORTIFIED requirements and the entire building must meet all requirements for the designation being considered. Individual units are NOT eligible for designation unless the entire building is being designated.

HUD manufactured homes

a single-family residential home manufactured to HUD’s Zone II or Zone III Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards adopted after July 1994. The home must be sited on and properly attached to a permanent foundation (see foundation requirements in Section 1.2.3.3). HUD manufactured homes built before July 1994 and Zone I homes built after July 1994 are NOT eligible.

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Townhouse

a single-family dwelling unit constructed in a group of three or more attached units in which each unit extends from foundation to roof and has a yard or public way on not less than two sides. Limited to three stories above grade. Mixed use (commercial and residential) buildings are NOT eligible. Note: The entire townhouse building, which includes all townhouse units composing the building, must be evaluated under the appropriate FORTIFIED requirements and the entire building must meet all requirements for the designation being considered. Individual townhouse units are NOT eligible for designation unless the entire building is being designated. Example: A fourunit, two-story townhouse with all units attached is eligible for a specific FORTIFIED designation only if the entire building, including each and every townhouse unit, is
evaluated and all units meet the requirements for that designation.

Foundation Qualification Requirements

Ineligible Foundations

Homes on a foundation constructed of unrestrained stacked masonry or stone (a drystack foundation) are not eligible for any FORTIFIED designation. Note: Ineligible foundations may be retrofitted in accordance with a professional engineering plan and must comply with Section 1.2.3.2 (below) to be considered eligible.

All Elevated-Floor Home-to-Foundation Connections

To be eligible for designation or re-designation under the FORTIFIED program, homes with elevated floors (not slab-on-grade construction) must have adequate positive connections from the floor or wall structure to the supporting foundation. For example, homes on piers or pilings must have connections from the tops of the piers/pilings to the home’s floor beams and a home on piers with shallow foundations must have connections that provide a continuous load path to the foundations. All connectors must be free from damage, corrosion-resistant (if applicable) in accordance with Appendix D of this standard, and installed per the connector manufacturer’s installation instructions.

All Elevated-Floor Home-to-Foundation Connections

Foundations must be capable of resisting the design wind load requirements with no more than ¼-in. lateral deflection. Requirements specified in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Permanent Foundation Guide for Manufactured Housing (HUD4930.3G) dated September 1996 or later provide useful assistance in identifying suitable foundation options. Based on results of past inspections of home installations that were reported as permanent, the following requirements of the HUD Guide and FORTIFIED requirements are emphasized and are part of the Field Evaluation inspection.

  • Screw-in soil anchors are not considered a permanent anchorage and cannot be used as any part of the required permanent foundation unless their heads are restrained from lateral movement by embedment in a reinforced concrete footing or concrete slab.
  • All concrete masonry unit (CMU) bearing walls, piers, and columns, as well as any units used as part of systems to resist uplift, overturning, and lateral loads must be composed of reinforced concrete masonry with mortared bed and head joints. Cells with reinforcing must be fully grouted. Dry-stacking of CMU is not allowed.
  • All bearing walls, piers, and columns must be installed on and connected to acceptable footings or a concrete slab. Footings and slabs must be protected from the effects of frost heave by extending below the frost line or by using a frost-protected shallow foundation design.
  • Walls and piers used as part of the uplift, overturning, or lateral load–resisting system must include adequately sized connections and elements capable of resisting tension or compression loads as appropriate. Straps or cables are acceptable, provided they are connected to the home or its chassis and transfer the design loads to the slab or footings supporting the walls, piers, or columns. Use of frictional resistance between the home or its chassis and the tops of the walls, piers, or columns or between the bottom of the walls, piers, or columns and the footings to resist lateral loads is not allowed.

For superior protection from hurricanes, tornadoes and other severe weather events, choose FORTIFIED Gold.

The National Standard for Resilience

  • Enhanced Roof Deck Attachment
  • Sealed Roof Deck
  • Locked Down Roof Edges
  • Impact-resistant Shingles Rated by IBHS**
  • Wind and Rain-Resistant Attic Vents
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* 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.

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