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Video explaining how to correctly install wall-to-roof flashing and kick-out flashing to protect walls from rain water damage.
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Checklist providing recommendations for the right tape in order to reduce the risk of leaks during storms with wind-driven rain.
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Video explaining the potential hazard of lightning strikes and how to prepare your home to resist strikes. Recommendations from FLASH Strong Home guidelines.
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Checklist providing good and bad methods of fortifying the roof, especially in high wind situations.
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Video explaining the effects that lightning damage can have on a home and ways to make your home more resistant to lightning strikes per FLASH Strong Homes guidelines.
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Video discussing wind-resistant roof types and providing recommendations on how to choose the right roof type for your home per FLASH Strong Home guidelines.
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Video overviewing how to make a home flood resistant, meaning that they can be quickly restored to their original condition after a natural disaster. Recommendations from LSU AgCenter.
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Checklist providing options and a guide for taping roof deck seams.
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Report covering the performance of residential buildings during three hurricanes impacting Florida in 2004.
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Factsheet describing ways to install sheathing over existing 1x roof decking.
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Guide describing how to seal roof valleys and how to seal around pipes, chimneys, and other roof deck penetrations.
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Checklist providing additional guidance and options for asphalt shingle installations at roof edges, intersections and valleys.
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Checklist intending to clarify FORTIFIED Home™ eligibility requirements that relate to a home’s foundation.