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Old 04-12-2016, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Topspinmo View Post
It may make different in tornado which usually spins off hurricanes. Concrete vs tooth picks? Even if the roof is gone the wall are there on concrete / block home.
hard to live in home without the roof and everything else sucked out of it.

Also I read that those block walls have cracks after such an event, so they me be standing but compromised.

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But due to less wood termites less likely if you had the roof frame sprayed.
show me a house that was sprayed?

even if it was that lasts only 5 years, you can't do it again unless you remove all the insulation........

Bottom line either house is a rebuild for the insurance companies.


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