Taylor Morrison Home Care Highlights – Installing Storm Shutters
Like taxes, you can count on storm season to come around every year. If you live in an area affected by major storms, you know that when a hurricane or tropical storm is headed your way, you’d better be prepared. Storm shutters are needed to protect from broken glass and other debris getting into a home. Metal storm shutters are an effective and popular solution. This video segment from the Taylor Morrison Home Care Highlights series explains how to store and use metal storm shutters.
Shutters are designed for quick and easy installation. Once you have the appropriately sized shutters on hand, you’ll also need to have mechanics gloves, a fully charged cordless drill, a utility knife and a step ladder on hand. Metal storm shutters can be put over both windows and doors. Use the utility knife to carefully remove any paint, plaster or caulking on your windows’ and doors’ surrounding track hardware. Your shutters will come with a zone map, with shutters labeled, starting with Zone 1. Install Zone 1 first you, always moving left to right. Secure the first shutter in place with hardware that came with the shutters, leaving the top and bottom mounting bolts open. You’ll bolt these down, too, when you overlap, align and install next shutter segment. Repeat these steps with each window and door. When you can take them down, store your shutters in Zone order in your garage. For more detail and visual guidance, watch the video and you’ll be set.
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North of the Border
The Railway: Keeping Britain on TrackEpisode 6 of 6
From some of the UK’s busiest urban commuter routes to frozen highland mountains, keeping trains running on Scotland’s rail network is a huge challenge. With winter looming large, the country’s train, station and engineering staff are entering their toughest season.
When overhead power lines are ripped down by a freight train, it spells chaos for the country’s West Coast Main Line and days of disruption for passengers at Glasgow Central Station. Yet even without engineering problems, this is a network under constant strain.
Scotland’s trains have to cope with millions of foreign visitors every year – most them using Edinburgh Waverley Station. Everyday, dispatcher Ronnie Park has to guide thousands of confused tourists as they rush for their trains, whilst parisian cleaner Patrice and his team have just 10 minutes to make trains sparkle before their onward journeys. Even when services are running smoothly it is a challenging place to work – but when delays south of the border impact on Edinburgh’s rush hour, the task for Ronnie and his colleagues becomes almost impossible.
Yet what really makes Scotland stand-out from the rest of the UK are its vast and remote wilderness railways, such as the West Highland Line. This is where rail engineer Iain MacKinnon spends his days inspecting miles of mountain track on foot, clearing dead stags from the line and tightening every loose bolt that he finds. It is a lonesome job but ‘a beautiful place to work’ and it keeps the Scottish railways running.