What about a tornado?
I’m pretty high right now.
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Is it really a house if it doesn’t stop the wind or rain?
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So it’s more of a cubicle than a house then?
It would just be a waste of plastic.
This is like asking which color you should paint your house to prevent fire.
Gloss White, technically. It reflects more radiant heat from a bushfire. Not a game changer but could give a very mild advantage.
In both cases, borrowing the words of stand-up drunkard Ron White, “It’s not that the wind is blowing; it’s what the wind is blowing.”
The house itself should be well waterproofed, the problems come from broken windows, punctured roof due to falling trees, or in a tornado, just being pushed over.
So you’re saying we should use Bubble wrap instead. Got it!
oh shit…
brick house, concrete, or wood house?
*brick house, wood house or straw house
Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!
It would create more of a barrier for wind and water to get caught in which could result in much more structural damage. My understanding is you WANT the air to flow through a house unabated in both situations as it would remove the instances of areas of very different air pressure which would result in essentially an air explosion.
So if there is a tornado coming, should I run around opening windows?
Realistically if a tornado is bearing down on your home, get to safety. Just don’t be surprised if the house starts to “breathe” around you as it gets closer.
Also history has shown that if you can do that before a tornado it helps. Mainly that people have literally been sucked out of windows or doors that burst open from the pressure differentials. Is it 100%? No, but from my reading, education, and direction from more experienced people if you live in a house do it before the tornado comes if you’re concerned. Just that there’s pros and cons for either situation.
It couldnt hurt provided you remove it immediately after the storm is over and you would need to use something substantially stronger than kitchen grade wrap. Think industrial pallet wrap and a LOT of it definitely a large expense and a mountain of work for a questionable level of protection.
Practically speaking though it could prevent a lot of minor storm damage and prevent it from becoming large damage, would definitely protect the windows to some degree and secure items so they dont get ripped off the house.
I think that in order to explain my thoughts on this I want to explain how warehouses transport pallets of stuff with plastic wrap. Using plastic wrap for transporting/moving stuff is incredibly useful, but not how you might think. It’s not that the stuff inside is any safer than if you didn’t use it. It’s more that the stuff inside is incredibly contained and likely to hold it’s shape even if things start to break. Which means you won’t have a giant mess to clean up, and you can reasonably rely on it to support any other things stacked on top of your pallet.
This wouldn’t work for safeguarding your house, because if you’ve ever dunked something wrapped in Saran wrap you’ll notice that it’s not always water tight. Add extreme winds and the wrap will likely peel off and make things worse. I think you’d probably have a giant mess, and be no more protected than if you didn’t use any Saran wrap at all
I’ve through three major hurricanes: Irma, Ian, and Milton. Irma was okay, Milton was bad, Ian was baaad.
Short answer: nope.
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It would not hold up.
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New houses are built to crazy code anyway.
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The big risk is flooding, and a tarp won’t do anything about it.
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Yes absolutely
Having a proper, stable house would be a better option. Those American stick and cardboard houses are not made to last.
