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Backdoor: Battening Down the Hatches

Coastal Contractor

Fall 2005
Battening Down the Hatches

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Backdoor: Battening Down the Hatches Preparing the job site when the big one blows through What's the first thing you'd do when a hurricane warning sounds in the middle of a job? A ToolBase TechNote entitled "Hurricane Preparedness for Builders," by the NAHB Research Center of Upper Marlboro, Md., offers a preparation plan (reprinted with permission at right), which itemizes tasks you might not have thought about beforehand. In addition to the tasks on this checklist, the TechNote includes a number of other important considerations to be made both before and immediately after the storm. Some of the key preparations,

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