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Originally Posted by bwtbrisbane
I was told that houses built after 2002 were built to withstand sustained winds of 116 MPH and gusts to 138 MPH. Having said that, after watching the way they throw up houses around here and they lack of real building inspections, who knows.
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The "standard" is the code that was implemented by Dade County after hurricane Andrew. Almost all counties in FL adopted it, including Sumter. And the homes are inspected as they are constructed. In addition, we hired an inspector to check things out for us.
Sumter County is a stickler for inspections. When we added a generator, there were 3 different inspections conducted, and we had to get ARC approval to boot.
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