Hurricane Security
When the forecast turns, the opening is what decides how the storm goes
Rolling hurricane shutters, clear storm panels and Tapco security screens, fitted across the Golden Triangle by the same crew that has installed Dabney's garage doors since 1962. Over 15 years of experience closing openings before a storm arrives.
Chapter 01
Tapco security screens
Tapco screens are designed to protect windows and openings from hurricanes. They are approved and used for handicap accessibility.
Rolling hurricane shutters, commonly called roll-down shutters, roll-up shutters or rolling security shutters, come down over the openings that would otherwise be the weak point. Clear hurricane shutters, also known as clear storm panels, are clear, typically corrugated plastic panels that keep the daylight while the storm passes.
Closed rolling hurricane shutter lowered over a set of French patio doors on a Golden Triangle home
The Golden Triangle sits in a hurricane corridor
Port Neches sits low against Sabine Lake, and every hurricane season the same question comes up and down this stretch of the Gulf Coast, not whether a storm is coming but which openings on the house are going to hold when it does. A roof rated for high wind can still lose the fight if the patio doors behind it go first. Once wind gets inside through a broken window or a blown-in door, it pushes up against the roof deck from underneath, and that is how a building actually comes apart in a storm, not from the outside in but from the inside out.
Dabney Garage Doors has been fitting hurricane protection across Port Neches, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland, Groves and Orange for over 15 years, alongside the garage doors and openers the company has installed and repaired since 1962. The same crew that measures a garage opening measures a patio door or a window opening, because underneath the different materials it is the same job: close the gap before the wind finds it.
Chapter 03
Three ways to close an opening
Rolling hurricane shutters, commonly called roll-down shutters, roll-up shutters or rolling security shutters, are the option most Golden Triangle homeowners picture when they think of storm protection. They mount above the opening and lower into tracks fixed on either side, so once they are down there is a solid barrier over the glass rather than a panel someone has to carry over, position by hand and bolt on in the wind and rain while a storm is already close.
Clear hurricane shutters, also called clear storm panels, are a different answer to the same problem. They are clear, typically corrugated plastic panels, which means a house does not go dark behind boarded-up glass while a storm sits offshore for a day or two before landfall. Tapco security screens are the third option Dabney fits, designed to protect windows and other openings, and they carry the added benefit of being approved and used for handicap accessibility, so a screen built to keep a storm out does not also have to be difficult for someone in the house to operate on the way in or out.
Fifteen years of doing this before the season starts
The best time to fit hurricane shutters is the week before hurricane season starts, not the week a storm is already sitting in the Gulf. That has been Dabney's approach for over 15 years: get the shutters, panels or screens on the house while there is still time to measure twice and install once, instead of racing a forecast with a ladder and a drill.
The same visit that measures a garage opening often turns up a patio door or a window that could use the same protection, since the crew is already on site and already looking at how the house is built. Every hurricane security job gets a straightforward walk-through of what is actually being covered and why, no upsell script, just what the openings need before the next storm reaches the coast.
Dabney Garage Doors has fitted hurricane shutters and security screens across the Golden Triangle for over 15 years, and is fully insured. Call (409) 892-1543 to talk through what your openings need before the next storm.
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