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“Home Hardening”

The process of enhancing your home and property’s resilience to wildfire and neighborhood wildfires.

We are here to help you Prepare, Protect, Prevent, and Prevail in a wildfire!

We apply our specialized fire-resistant treatment to all combustible materials, including landscaping, trees, fences and even the exposed wood in your attic . We take other measures to block embers from entering your home, making your Home Hardened and your neighborhood safer.

Prepare:

The first step:

is to have a “Fire Hardening Assessment” done. This starts with clearing any and all dry brush, dead or dry shrubs and trees. Clear the first 5 feet around any structure from any debris and stored items. This is a defensible space and this area is referred to as “Zone Zero”. Once this area is clear we provide you with a list and a proposal to Fire Harden your home.

Protect:

The Second Step:

Is to immediately apply our specialized fire-resistant treatment to all combustible materials such as wood fences, trees, landscaping, exposed wood in attics and subfloors. This way any embers landing on the property will extinguish. This zero-toxic product is Cal-Fire – National Forest – FDA approved and used.

This is a non-toxic, Plant-Based, Child and Pet friendly, very safe product!

The Third Step:

Is to Fire Harden your structures to keep embers from entering. Focusing on making your home resistant to embers, heat, and flames.

WUI is the Wildland – Urban – Interface this is the area where development and undeveloped wildland meet or intermingle. This interface is at the highest risk for wildfires because structures are in close proximity to natural fuels, creating a complex and dangerous environment for home and neighborhood wildfires.

Fences:

Treat or replace wooden fences with non-combustible materials near the home.

Attic:

Treating the raw wood in your attic and or crawl spaces

Roof:

Use Class A fire-rated materials (metal, tile, asphalt shingles). This has been the code since 1997

Vents:

Install ember-resistant vents.

CAL FIRE requirements, and the California Building Code (CBC) Chapter 7A, mandate that all exterior vents in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas must be ember- and flame-resistant to prevent wildfire ignition. This applies to attic, subfloor, foundation, and soffit vents, requiring non-combustible materials and mesh openings no larger than 1/8 inch, or the use of State Fire Marshal-approved vents that have passed specific ember and flame intrusion tests. 

Gutters:

Keep clear of all debris; install metal guards on top.

Eaves & Soffits:

Treat or box in with non-combustible materials.

Siding:

Use ignition-resistant materials like fiber cement or stucco. Paint wood with our fire resistant primer and paint.

Windows:

Install dual-pane tempered glass; or install a fire-rated window film and use metal screens.

Doors:

Solid core or metal doors with tight-fitting frames.

Decks & Porches:

Treat or use fire-resistant materials; keep clear underneath.

Prevent:

When you have done your part of Fire Hardening your own home and property it helps protect your home from a wildfire and or a neighborhood wild fire. This also helps prevent the spread of “Neighborhood Wildfires and makes your neighbor’s safer.

We all need to step up and do our part for ourselves and our neighborhood!

Prevail:

Knowing that you have done everything to protect your loved ones, your home, and your irreplaceable and personal belongings, lowers the anxiety when you need to evacuate. This is the goal, knowing that you have done everything to prevent the inevitable wild fire from entering your property and that your home and hopefully your entire neighborhood prevails.