Anyone have a good source for windows (DH 3-0 x 5-0) with built in rolling security shutters? Got 20 in a design, and client got one quote for $53k. Looking for less expensive alternatives. Anyone use any that worked well?
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Wow. Never heard of windows with built-in security shutters. Just went through our Sweet's catalog and couldn't find a manufacturer there. Lots of separate systems, though (QMI, Rollac, Willard Shutter Co., etc.).
We do a lot of work in the inner city. Lots of security issues. Unfortunately, $$$ is always an issue with something like this.
At $2650 a pop, couldn't you use bullet resistant glass instead?
How "secure"?
You might could get by with roll-down storm (aka hurricane) shutters. Won't stop anything over 120mph, but, that's still a lot of protection.
http://www.willardshutterco.com/rollup.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/shutters/index3.html
http://www.thomasnet.com/products/window-shutters-96088448-1.html
His interest is combo security from people, security from nature, security from a nearby nuke facility...Nice, sane family with a very cool house plan (if I do say so myself).......just extremely extremely (obsessively?) concerned with security from all of the world's risks. I seem to run into that some be/c of the nature of the construction. As a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a concrete house is only as strong as...you get the idea...and usually it's the windows and doors that get the attention. One client wanted the whole thing to match the structure's theoretical 300 mph capability, including the garage. His concern was sustained 300 winds! I wondered why he cared about the garage...where was he gonna drive in 300 mph winds?!?!?!We all have out idiosyncracies...
combo security from people, security from nature, security from a nearby nuke facility
The 120 mph shutters are pretty good security from people.
Depends on what kind of nature might "git 'em."
SOunds like the "safe room" wants to be built as a fallout shelter <pause>, where's my ccopy of Surviving Doomsday <g>?Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)