Accordion Hurricane ShuttersWilmington, NC

Wilmington, New Hanover County

What accordion shutters cost in Wilmington, and the houses they suit

Accordion hurricane shutters in Wilmington are $38/sq ft installed. That rate covers the housings, the tracks, the stainless anchors, the New Hanover County permit and a design pressure calculation done on your openings rather than to a county minimum. A house with twelve openings averaging fifteen square feet comes to around $6,840.

Wilmington is not a town of empty houses. Forest Hills, Sunset Park, Ardmore and most of the streets between Market and Oleander are full-time addresses, and the person closing the shutters is usually the person who lives there. That single fact decides more of these quotes than price does. A system somebody has to carry, lift and bolt on is a system that gets skipped when the forecast is uncertain.

An accordion closes from outside at ground level, by hand, with no tools. Twelve openings take one person about ten minutes. Just as important here, it reopens. Storms on this stretch of coast stall over the Cape Fear more often than they pass cleanly through, and a house that is shut for three days in August is a house nobody can live in. Each unit unlatches and folds back, so a room can be opened between bands and closed again.

The housings are the trade. They sit permanently at both sides of every opening and they are visible all year, which matters on a front elevation and matters a great deal downtown. On the back and sides of a house almost nobody notices them. On a reviewed elevation in the historic district they are frequently the reason an application comes back.

We measure and install ourselves from the shop on Castle Hayne Road, which is fifteen minutes from most of the addresses on this page. There are no subcontractors on your house, and a Wilmington measure is usually the same week you call.

Insurance is the part people ask about last and should ask about first. A certified assembly on every opening is what a wind mitigation inspection is looking for, and the credit applies to the wind portion of the policy rather than to the whole premium. We supply the product approval and the mitigation documentation with the job rather than charging for it afterwards.