Accordion Hurricane ShuttersOak Island, NC

Oak Island, Brunswick County

What accordion shutters cost on Oak Island, and why most of the island chooses them

Accordion hurricane shutters on Oak Island are $38/sq ft installed. That covers fabrication to your exact opening, side housings, tracks, stainless anchors, the permit and the design pressure calculation. A typical interior-street house with twelve openings averaging fifteen square feet runs about $6,800. An oceanfront house on East or West Beach Drive with wide water-facing glass costs more in total, but the rate is the same.

Oak Island has more houses to protect than anywhere else we work, and the reason accordions dominate here is demographic rather than technical. This is a year-round, largely owner-occupied island. The person closing the shutters is usually the person who owns the house, working alone, often in their sixties or seventies. A system needing two people and a ladder is a system that does not get closed.

The second reason is storage, and it is more practical than it sounds. Garages on this island are already holding a boat, a golf cart and a season of beach chairs. Accordions store nothing at all — they live in their side housings beside each opening, year-round, and fold out along a track when you need them.