I live in central Florida and need to build Hurricane shutters of the “Bahaman Style” to protect three large plate glass windows (8 ft wide x 7 ft tall)on my home which face south toward a lake.
The Bahaman style could provide shade from sun and then be lowered to secure position when warning issued for hurricane.
I presume that the spans will have to be broken with 2 large vertical battens/muttins of some dimension (2/4 or 6?) and slats of 5/8 inch or 3/4 inch material?
Does anyone have a design or other suggestions for these?
I am tired of taking down the x posts and the 2inch planks I repeatedly used last year.
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You mean the hinged-at-the-top style, correct?
I'm wondering if multiple panels might be easier, except locking them together would likely get problematic.
Those are going to be some monsters to build, let alone hang, at 8 x 7. I'd be tempted to build them kind of like a garage door, say an 8-10" wide stile on either side, full length, and a 10-12" wide top & bottom rail, with panels set inside that frame. It would still want some sort of strongback or two, I'm thinking, even so.