The storm only lasted for fifteen minutes, but nearly two weeks later Sydney residents are still reeling from the devastation. The thunderstorm that struck Sydney a fortnight ago hit Kellyville particularly hard, with tennis ball sized hailstones smashing cars and breaking open tile roofs throughout the suburb.
As Queensland mops up from Cyclone Debbie this week, Sydney entrepreneur Matthew Lennox will wish he could help. In 2013 the Cronulla builder launched Stormseal, a polymer film that heat shrinks to storm damaged roofs. Its genius is it restores structural integrity while occupants await permanent repairs.
Catastrophic weather events – like the tornado that hit Kurnell in December 2015 – are becoming increasingly frequent in Australia and around the world, with consequent soaring economic and social costs. The Kurnell tornado provoked 500 calls to emergency responders, caused major damage to 25 homes and traumatised hundreds of residents. A year later, 10…
KATE Adkins is writing to the Insurance Council of Australia, imploring it to look at new ways of protecting stormdamaged homes after seeing the toll on her Kellyville neighbours. A month after the hailstorm that ripped through the suburb, leaving a serious trail of damage in their street, Stynes Ave, residents are coping with added water damage due to the wet weather.
IAG Insurance says it is working through 4290 claims from the four worst hit suburbs in the Hills since the hail storm hit on February 18 with 1638 vehicles and 1013 home claims in just Kellyville.
The storm only lasted for fifteen minutes, but nearly two weeks later Sydney residents are still reeling from the devastation. The thunderstorm that struck Sydney a fortnight ago hit Kellyville particularly hard, with tennis ball sized hailstones smashing cars and breaking open tile roofs throughout the suburb. Many houses in Stynes Avenue are still waiting…
As climate change makes natural disasters, like severe storms, more frequent, we must all attend to what the World Bank terms the ‘hidden’ or ‘invisible’ costs: mental and substance abuse disorders. ‘The invention of Stormseal was sparked in 2007, when I saw the impacts of a huge hailstorm that hit Sydney – not just physical…
Storms and hail damage make up for 48% of insurance losses in Australia. Insurance builders can now improve their service by training staff to use a new shrink-wrap technology, which is revolutionising they way storm and hail damaged homes are covered.
Stormseal’s Managing Director, Matthew Lennox, recently travelled to the UK to meet with a number of UK based Insurance companies, with large client bases extending across the UK. Although he only spent four days in the country, Matthew learnt a lot about the UK insurance market and the challenges and opportunities it presents for Stormseal.…
Stormseal is manufactured by Stormseal Industries Pty. Ltd. at its factory in Rockdale, a community in southern Sydney. The low density polyethylene film is heat shrunk to seal damaged roofs or walls to provide secure protection from wind, rain and hail until permanent repairs are made.