A small strap that could save your home

There is a call by some for a change to the building code in Ontario to help further protect properties against hurricanes.  The call is to make it mandatory for new home construction to include hurricane straps.   The clips are small pieces of metal that bind the roof truss to the top of the wall.

At the University of Western Ontario there is a Three Little Pigs project that studies among other things hurricanes and how some structural changes can reduce serious damage during a storm. Greg Kopp with Western University is encouraging the province to utilize hurricane clips or straps based on studies from the wind tunnel at the lab.

Each clip is only a few dollars and some communities in North American already have them as part of the building code.   

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