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Flat Polycarbonate ShuttersOak Island, NC

$30/sq ft installed. Optically clear sheets, permanently mounted, for the fixed and odd-shaped openings no standard track will fit — and the only system that asks nothing of you when a storm is named.

$30/sq ft
Installed Price
Oak Island NC
Location
Optically Clear
Lexan Polycarbonate
ASTM E1886/E1996
Rated To
Nothing
To Deploy

Oak Island, Brunswick County

The openings nothing else fits, and the only shutter that is already up

Flat polycarbonate hurricane shutters on Oak Island are $30/sq ft installed. Optically clear sheets are cut to the exact opening and mounted permanently on stainless standoffs with an air gap behind. They carry the same ASTM E1886/E1996 rating as any rigid system.

They exist for the openings that defeat everything else: the fixed picture window, the arched transom, the odd-shaped glass no standard track will take. On Oak Island that usually means the water-facing feature window the house was laid out around — the one opening nobody wants to cover with aluminum.

Because the material is clear, the window still reads as a window from the street and the room behind it still gets full daylight. And because it is permanent, there is nothing to deploy, nobody who has to drive to the island, and no decision to make when a storm is two days out.

ProductFlat polycarbonate (Lexan) hurricane shutters
Installed price$30 per square foot
LocationOak Island, NC (Brunswick County)
MountingPermanent, stainless standoffs with an air gap
DeploymentNone — always in place
VisibilityOptically clear; full daylight retained
Best forFixed, arched and odd-shaped openings
RatingASTM E1886/E1996, qualifies for wind mitigation credit
Why nobody else advertises this
Flat polycarbonate is the least-marketed rated system on the coast. It has no moving parts, so there is nothing to demonstrate, and it suits a handful of openings rather than a whole house. That does not make it niche — it makes it the right answer for the specific windows that defeat everything else.

When flat polycarbonate is the wrong choice on Oak Island

It is a targeted product. Used as a whole-house system it is poor value.

A window you open
It is permanently mounted. On an operable window you actually use, it is the wrong product — fit accordion or panels there instead.
Covering the whole house
At $30/sq ft it costs more than aluminum panels at $22. Covering every opening in it rarely makes sense. The right use is the three or four windows nothing else fits properly.
If you want it invisible
It is clear, not absent. Up close you can see the sheet and the standoffs. From the street the window still reads as a window, which is the point, but it is not the same as having nothing there.

Questions we get on Oak Island

How much do Lexan shutters cost on Oak Island?
$30 per square foot installed. That covers custom cutting to your opening, stainless standoffs and permanent mounting.
What are flat polycarbonate shutters for?
Openings that no standard track fits — fixed picture windows, arched transoms and odd-shaped glass. They are also the only system that needs no deployment, which suits second homes and rentals.
Can you see through them?
Yes, they are optically clear. The window still admits full daylight and still reads as a window from outside.
Are they as strong as aluminum shutters?
They carry the same ASTM E1886/E1996 rating. The difference is not strength but suitability: polycarbonate is for fixed openings, aluminum systems are for openings you operate.

Why Oak Island homeowners call AHS

Founded in 2006 by Michael Burns. We fabricate and install ourselves — no subcontractors on your house.

OSHA-30 Certified
The only OSHA-30 certified hurricane shutter company in coastal NC and SC.
Design Pressure Analysis
Calculated per opening on your house, not to the county minimum.
7-Year Workmanship Warranty
If anything fails because of our installation, we come back and fix it.

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