There are two different ways to board up your sliding glass door for hurricanes preventatively or as recovery.
How to cover sliding glass doors for hurricane.
Applying a hurricane film to your glass doors helps protect it from shattering if it s hit by flying debris in a storm.
During a hurricane you ll have to worry about more than the front exterior door.
Buying plywood to stretch across one or two sets of sliding glass doors can be expensive.
As they are always attached to the walls of your property they are simple to put up in case of emergency.
Glass protection for doors.
If you have sliding glass doors you ll have to cover those as well.
If you have enough time to prepare your property for the incoming storm you can call an emergency board up company to cover your sliding glass doors and windows with plywood protecting the glass against wind damage and impacts.
Instead of buying plywood you can replace the glass in them with high impact glass.
These are specially designed fiberglass door inserts with impact rated glass and frames.
The next form of hurricane protection for your sliding glass doors are accordion shutters.
Affordable alternative to impact glass.
Hurricane protection for sliding glass doors is complete once you decide to install impact shutters for your doors and windows.
The best hurricane protection for glass doors is clearly impact glass.
Also permanently installed on your home accordion shutters run along a track which is installed on the top and bottom of your windows and doors.
This option is quicker and more cost effective than installing impact glass.
Removable hurricane shutter for exterior doors.
These doors are made with two sheets of tempered glass with an insert of plastic between them to reinforce the glass.
The plastic coating is applied directly to the glass doors and doesn t affect their appearance.