Putting Up and Taking Down Hurricane Shutters

The single biggest scheduling headache of hurricane season is finding one handyman to put up your permanent shutters and another to come back and take them down. Most homeowners discover this the morning after the storm passes — they call the original installer, get voicemail, call three more, and finally accept they're going to be staring at storm panels for the next two months while the regional shutter takedown waitlist clears. Booking the install and the takedown together solves that scramble before it starts.

This bundle covers permanent shutter systems only — storm panels, accordion, rolldown, Bahama, Colonial, and hurricane fabric. If you only have plywood, post on our Board Up Windows service at /services/board-up-windows instead — many board-up crews offer their own same-crew install + takedown bundle for plywood.

On Hurricane Handyman, you post the bundled job in one shot. Upload photos of every opening, answer three short intake questions — what type of shutters you have, where they're stored, and when you want the takedown timed (after the storm passes, on a set date, or other) — and the post goes out to local handymen.

Local pros submit competing fixed-price quotes for both visits as a single bundled job. You compare profiles and bids on the platform and pick the handyman whose price and timeline fit.

Your payment for the bundled job is held in Stripe escrow. Funds release to the handyman after completed work is photo-documented, submitted through the platform, and approved by you — or after your agreed review window passes. Escrow protection applies to every Hurricane Handyman booking.

Before hiring, message the handymen directly and ask about prior bundled jobs, their plan if a storm timing changes, what they do if you're out of town for the takedown, what tools they bring, whether they're insured, and whether their bid covers the labor on both visits at the price quoted.

Hurricane Handyman runs the entire hurricane belt — Texas through the Florida Keys, up the Atlantic seaboard through the Carolinas, across the Caribbean from Puerto Rico to St. Thomas. It's how condo associations, snowbirds, vacation-rental managers, and busy families have handled storm seasons for years. Post your bundled job and start collecting bids.