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Now that Florida backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is requiring Florida home owners to meet the Miami-Dade building code standards of hurricane protection to keep their Florida home owners insurance, most insurance companies are following suit. This means you need to either have hurricane shutters, or hurricane impact resistant windows and doors on your Florida home.

There are several advantages to hurricane impact rated windows over hurricane shutters:

• Hurricane windows are always ?on? ? you don?t have to be there to manually roll them down
• Hurricane windows allow light in while decreasing outside noise
• Some hurricane windows, like New Code hurricane impact resistant windows, have UV protection, which cuts 99.9% of harmful UV radiation
• Hurricane windows also tend to be more energy efficient, and can cut your utility bills while also qualifying you for a tax credit of up to $1500
• Most people find hurricane windows to be more aesthetically pleasing than hurricane shutters
• Hurricane impact resistant windows offer 24-7-365 resistance to home intruders and break-ins, unlike hurricane shutters which have to be activated to provide any home security

While hurricane impact resistant windows are the ideal hurricane protection solution in most cases, there are often situations in which hurricane shutters may be the preferred or only solution. One example is on historical buildings, which may be required to keep the original window glass ? in these cases, hurricane shutters are really the only satisfactory hurricane protection option. In other cases, where the fastest, most economical solution is the only concern, hurricane shutters may be preferred. There are new models of hurricane shutters, which, even if they don?t have all the advantages of hurricane impact resistant windows, are more attractive and functional than traditional hurricane shutters, and for some people may be very satisfactory.

When looking for a hurricane protection option for your Florida home, it is best to find a hurricane impact resistant window dealer who also provides and is knowledgeable about hurricane shutters so you have all your options covered. In addition, make sure the hurricane window dealer also installs the windows and provides a lifetime warranty.

If a window or door in your Florida home is compromised during a hurricane, the force of the wind pressure blowing in can easily lift the roof right off your home. That is why proper hurricane protection on all home openings and entryways is so important. New Code hurricane impact resistant windows are double layered with a sheet of laminate and a layer of polyurethane acrylic ? a layer of liquid glass which hardens in between the glass sheets to keep them intact and able to stand up to 150+ mph hurricane winds even after the exterior sheet of glass has been cracked with a tree limb or other large projectile.

If you have any questions about hurricane impact resistant windows or hurricane shutters, feel free to Contact New Code Windows & Doors at 800-428-8670. To learn more about how hurricane impact resistant glass is made and tested, check out this Discovery Channel feature on New Code Windows.