Mobile Home Hurricane Protection

The manufactured housing industries' vulnerability to stand up against extreme hurricane force winds in the United States has now been re-invented by Hurricane Harness® Corporation.

The National Fire Protection Association has recognized our safety system and has forwarded our proposal to the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee for evaluation by HUD. This is a necessary step to achieve a building code compliance for safer standards for mobile homes in high wind zones.

When aluminum metal pan roof systems are exposed to extreme high winds, un-repairable damage occurs to the overall building structure once the fasteners attaching the metal roof panels to the structural frame begin to tear or rip through the metal pan base. This formative release of energy forces the underside of the roof to lift resulting in complete devastation to the roof system. This occurrence becomes less than a desirable situation to the overall building structure, the homeowner, and the insurance provider.

To mitigate this negative force of pressure differential, special pre-installed aluminum tubular channels are permanently fastened perpendicular across the top of the interlocking ribs as shown below, without disturbing the flow of rain water, then variable lengths of our extremely strong, specially designed straps are placed over the channels and fastened into ratchets on both sides of the building then tightened. This method insures a positive downward force is applied to the channels evenly across the top of the entire roof system. These engineering marvels will raise the degree of your homes survivability in a hurricane by double the protection.

Carport Vulnerability

Engineers have agreed that carports attached to houses and mobile homes are extremely susceptible to wind capture. Destruction of the home often starts here. The carport's roof is usually attached to the main roof or to the home itself. When the carport detaches, the winds penetrate, peeling off the remaining roof. The envelope of the home is thus breached and the structure collapses from the pressure. Hurricane Harness® will strap down the carport, ensuring that winds do the least harm possible.

Easy, Fast Installation At The First Warning, Fast Takedown And Storage After Hurricane Passes

The System

5 ft. ground anchors are mechanically installed into the ground for the anchoring devices, which will receive the tension buckles that tighten the roof straps.	Some mobile homes have concrete or cement block bases that can be drilled to receive stainless steel bolts to anchor the buckles.	A concrete slab can be poured or an existing concrete slab can be drilled to install a pair of anchor bolts. Threaded extension’s are set with 2 part epoxy and pan head bolts screw into the extensions.
A patented, unique tension buckle and the extremely low stretch high strength strap secure the roof and structure to the ground. Mechanical breakthroughs make it possible for the tensions buckle and anchor assembly to deliver about 1000 pounds of downward pressure to the roof.	The product is a marvel of simplicity to install and to operate.  Even an untrained homeowner with ordinary tools could install it in one hour or less.	The ratchet assembly simply hooks onto the bolts, ready to receive the tie-downs.

Securing The Home

Special square tubing, made out of extruded aluminum, is installed along the top and edges of the roof.  This is done to frame and distribute the downward pressure evenly across the entirety of the roof.  In this way, gutters are not damaged when the tension is applied and the integrity of the structure becomes stronger.

Once all the hardware has been installed, the straps laid across the roof and the buckles tensioned, the tie-down is complete.  Boarding of all windows and doors is the final step, after installing Hurricane Harness®.  Thus the mobile home is well protected from extreme hurricane winds.

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