Is Your Home Safe from Severe Weather? Continuous Load May be the Answer.

In our Replay today, Kevin offers valuable advice to a new listener ready to update her kitchen, family room and bath.  In the Horror Story, you’ll wonder how a flooring “pro” could do such a sloppy job. Continuous Load is an engineering principle that can help recently built homes withstand  strong winds...possibly even a tornado.  If your home was built to codes as they existed years ago, you can achieve some of the benefit of continuous load with Simpson Strong Tie products that essentially connect different sections of a house frame to each other to form a stronger, more wind-resistant whole. The contractor you choose to do your siding can actually tie your roof to the wall framing members this way.