Any after pics? I’ve seen this everywhere but no after pics.
Yep! It made it.
Good for them!
+10 for holding the roof on the house
+5 for holding the house on the foundation
-7 for creating a large strong web effectively doubling the surface area where flying things can destroy your house.
ok so. This isn’t going to stop a tree, or a large rock from flying through the side of you wall, but if you home isn’t mounted to the foundation (common in old homes) or very well mounted, or just not very wind load capable, this could actually be beneficial.
You could still experience “wall buckling” but since the roof is relatively secured, you’re acting from a separate point of leverage. Which is essentially going to be in the middle of the wall, rather than at the top of the wall.
This is all assuming that these anchor points are as strong or stronger than the straps and mounting hardware. And the fact that your home doesn’t disintegrate between the staps.
I hate that my first thought is insurance will use this as a way to avoid paying out
I don’t know if this stupid or genius. Now I’m curious.
Worth a try. If it does not work, it did not cost a fortune, if it does, good for the owner.
Unless there’s a footing these straps are being anchored to that I’m not seeing, I doubt it’ll do very much besides potentially acting as very dangerous whips.
yeah these look like footings to me, i see what looks to be a small concrete protuberance right out of the ground. Also these would likely just pull out of the ground if they weren’t anchored, and they wouldn’t be whips, just very odd debris.
Yeah I watched a short news clip with him in it and he said they are attached to concrete that goes 8 feet down.
There is a news video about it, it’s anchored to concrete and rebar 8 feet deep or something like that
I’ve seen these deck strap things that you push way down into the ground and as you pull them up a little the flatten out and turn sideways. Really easy to install and harder than hell to pull out. I think it’s called an earth anchor maybe. I bet that’s what he used here.
You’d be surprized how strong an industrial screwed-in ground anchor holds. And it has to be anchored at the correct angle towards the load.
So, most likely, they will not just rip out, and they have a good chance to add a significant force holding down that roof.
If done properly, of course.
If the roof doesn’t crack from the added pressure points.
There seems to be an extra bar/pole at the top to distribute the load, though.
Seems like a plausible strategy. If the roof is lashed down it can’t catch the wind and therefore is less likely to weaken over time and go flying. Certainly better than doing nothing.
With all these experts in the comments, I now want the original sauce and to follow up to see what actually will happen.
YouTube recommended a video of this to me yesterday. The straps are anchored with cement. Seems like it buys him X additional mph of wind speed compared to his neighbors. We’ll see if the winds are in that “more than a regular roof can handle but less than the straps can hold” range.
Yyy, I’ve heard all the theoretical arguments. I now want to witness the experiment live. Or on camera.
The murican level blowing the scale
Apparently, he’s not the first, and it actually has a chance of working.
Jesus Diaz was afraid the roof would blow off. And while the straps are gone, the roof stayed put. His home didn’t sustain damage, either.
Meanwhile the row of houses a street over that got raked with his modern-day chain shot are ravaged
Yeah 6 ratchet straps are really gonna make a differencein damage in a fucking hurricane…smh.
I wonder how deep those stakes are driven lol
According to the local news interview, 8’ concrete piles.
I guarantee it’s not deep enough. Hurricanes of this magnitude topple and uproot trees with massive root structures extending several meters underground. These type of DIY solutions are almost always create more hazard than they solve.
they make houses rated to hurricane winds, i don’t think the trees really care one way or the other. Engineering is often better at withstanding hurricanes than trees.
More than likely, if the straps are attached to cement blocks, the cement is deeper than the average depth of a tree root.
Those trees are also giant sails which transfers that much more force from the wind
On the surface, it looks as if they bored decent size holes in the ground and set the anchors in concrete. With a Bobcat, they could easily get 3 meter x 40cm holes; that’s 904kg of concrete at each anchor point, and a lot of friction.
This isn’t the stupidest idea I’ve ever seen; given that they can’t move their house, and set unlikely to move all their possessions for just a few days, Heck, it’s not a bad idea at all, and looks well-executed.
did he die
ive always wondered why nobody does that with their mobile homes. seems like enough strapping would help minimize tornado damage if they were anchored deep enough
mobile homes are built like complete shit (mostly due to weight) so even if you strapped them they would probably still vanish at the sight of 80mph winds lol.
You’ve gotta remember that most mobile home communities are folks who own their units renting the land for use. This guy has custom concrete anchors, which a mobile home community property owner probably wouldn’t want.
then that mhcomm owner is a dumbfuck for not wanting his renters property protected
Why would he care? He gets paid either way, so he’s not going to give a fuck. Now, change the law so that he has liability…
This is extremely stupid. I was happy to see that most people here seem to immediately understand this.
If this homeowner is as good at tying down his house as the yokels around here are at tying down their cargo, then the odds are this house is somehow going to end up hitting my windshield.
Just tie some rope around it, that’ll hold!
