If you live in an area where hurricanes could potentially strike during hurricane season, you have to be prepared for potential damage to your home. Luckily, if you follow these tips, you can help ensure that you are as prepared as possible for the potential need for repairs.

Ensure Your Home is Properly Prepared for Hurricane Season

You may not be able to fully prepare for hurricanes and the potential damage that they can bring, but there are steps that you can take to help make your home better-prepared to deal with high winds and other elements. These are a few inspections and repairs that you might want to do to your home before hurricane season begins:

• Replace the glass in any broken windows, and consider installing hurricane shutters so that you can protect your windows against the high winds.
• Invest in a garage door brace, which you can use to prevent your garage door from flying open or being broken during a hurricane.
• Check your roof, and consider using roofing nails or tacks to secure any shingles that might seem loose.
• Trim your trees, and consider removing any trees that are dead or otherwise have the potential to fall on your home.

Check Your Insurance Policy

Check your homeowner's insurance policy, and make sure that your payments are up-to-date. Check your policy and coverage levels, and consider adding flood insurance if you do not have it already. You may also want to check your deductible levels; if they are too high, you may want to lower them. Either way, you may want to stash the amount of your deductible in your savings account and to avoid touching it so that you will have it in the event that something happens to your home.

Take Inventory

It's a good idea to take an inventory of the items in your home and to list them with your insurance company. Then, if you need to replace these items, you'll have an up-to-date list. It is also a good idea to take recent photographs of the exterior of your home from each side; these photographs can be submitted to your insurance company in the event of a claim to prove that the damage was not pre-existing before the storm.

Hurricane season can be frightening, and you have to worry about your home being damaged on top of being concerned about your family's safety. Luckily, following these tips can help you prepare for potential home repairs after one of these serious storms. For more information, contact a company like Nordic Services Inc.