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Buckle Up If Our Storm Season is as Bad as Southern Hemisphere

Our business is exploding – we can barely keep up with the demand – we just completed work on the glass windows of a major data center, several hospital buildings are next in line, plus a firearms store and even houses. We expect more schools will be included in the summer.
The southern hemisphere (where it’s summer) is having a hellacious HEAT and one of the longest-lasting, powerful hurricanes ever recorded.
That means our summer ahead could be worse than a zombie apocalypse! Get prepared. It’s too late to call us when a named storm is heading our way, or a shooter is on a rampage.
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Tornadoes in Winter; Hurricanes in Summer; Burglars all the time – Armor your Weakest Link

Houston was hit in JANUARY by an EF3 TORNADO. In January? I was surprised too, then I googled it and discovered that Houston is No. 1 for TORNADOES in Texas. No. 2 was little Plainview up in the Texas Panhandle, sandwiched between Amarillo and Lubbock.

The new climate appears to generate Tornadoes in Winter on top of Hurricanes in summer. BURGLARS are a threat 24/7/365.

Face it, folks, glass is a burglar’s best friend. One whack with a brick (or bat as in our homepage video) and its GONE! The bad guys are in and out in less than 2 minutes. 8 Mil Armor Glass security films have been keeping that from happening at our client storefronts and homes, at a fraction of the cost of the alternatives. And it also cuts solar heat drastically to save energy costs and harmful UV.

Tornadoes destroy buildings like hurricanes–high winds throw debris into a glass door or window, and it fails. Once the window is gone, the building’s seal is broken. Winds rush in and try to find a way out. That pressurizes the building, pushing the roof up and walls out. This was confirmed by a study called “Project Safe Windows.” Basically, it explodes the building.

Few people know this, or that Certified Security Film works like “Invisible Shutters” and “Invisible Burglar Bars” to keep that seal after a window breaks from an impact, by human or mother nature.

Impact glass and shutters cost three to ten times more per square foot and are expensive to maintain or replace. Not Security Film, which is also saving energy costs and shielding occupants from heat and the No.1 cause of skin cancer, UV rays.

We install 8 Mil Armor Glass on SCHOOLS – it doesn’t stop the bullet, but it is a barrier to the shooter, delaying him at the entrance instead of blowing out the glass in two seconds in a hail of bullets. Shoot bare glass and it’s gone in a second or two and no one inside has a chance to prepare. Armor Glass Security Film, which is anchored to the frames for support, gives the police an opportunity to confront a shooter at the locked glass entrance instead of somewhere inside.

Stop being a sitting duck for the next burglar or a storm that can easily wreck your biggest asset because its windows put up no resistance to breach from screaming winds or that guy with the baseball bat you see on our Homepage. That makes a burglar smile.

Armor Glass puts a frown on those faces. It’s kept burglars from breaking in on a woman home alone and storefronts closed for the night numerous times. It’s kept little kids from being injured after running into a glass wall and breaking the glass (one month after we put it on). Check out our videos and details at ArmorGlass.com

 

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How Armor Glass Security Film Would have Avoided $5 Million in Damages to 1 building

 

In 2008 Hurricane IKE hit Houston, causing billions in damages. Countless buildings across the city lost windows from flying debris. The worst-case was the downtown Chase Tower which lost an entire side of windows as the winds sucked them out of their frames, along with the contents of each office. It was shut down for nearly a year and cost over $5 million to repair the damage just to the building, not including the tenants’ losses.

ALL of these damages would have (not could have) been avoided had they applied 8 Mil Armor Glass Security Film with frame bonding before the storm. Even if broken, the film would have contained the glass and the frame bonding would have kept it on the frame instead of flying through the air and smashing into thousands of shards that would have killed anyone below. Broken windows would have stayed in their frame.

To this day, not only Chase Tower but almost all buildings like it remain sitting ducks for the next hurricane-like IKE. Some buildings have solar film installed but thin 2mil solar film is not designed to protect from a breach, only the sun’s rays. Upon impact, it will fail. However, our 8 Mil Security Film is rated for ASTM 1886/1996 Large Missile Impact (Level C 4.5 lbs) and would hold. But even that would fall out of the frame unless a structural sealant is applied to anchor the film to the frames on tempered glass (it’s not needed on plate glass.)

The installation cost of 8 mil Armor Glass Security film (a high-tech polycarbonate that was put on the Pentagon and all federal buildings after 911) and bonding would have been a fraction of the damages Chase Tower incurred.

During the 2020 riots, companies with glass walls called in a panic. We applied the film to prevent glass breaches from bricks and rocks that destroy glass in a second, leaving empty frames anyone can walk through, exposing the interior to wind and rain damage as well.

Our Security Film has stopped numerous break-ins by burglars. And at the same time it was cutting solar heat and harmful UV, just as the solar film does, but with the advantage of providing glass security that solar film doesn’t. It’s carbon negative and cuts energy use. Adding our film to your glass is like changing your 2 ply tires that will blow out under stress and high loads with 8 ply tires that won’t.

We live in a storm zone 24/7/365. Hurricanes are an annual event. And as the earth warms, the storms are bigger and more powerful. Burglars are a 365 threat and potential riots, explosions, kids and pets running into it, make glass a dangerous accident waiting to happen – until you “armor the glass” with Armor Glass Security Film.

Here is a Houston KHOU Channel 11 video made in 2009 that demonstrates how hurricanes/tornadoes destroy and it mentions Armor Glass security film as an option.

Details and contact for a Free Quote at: www.ArmorGlass.com