The Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business recently featured Stormseal
Australian builder turned inventor, Matthew Lennox, saw an opportunity in the market to protect storm damaged homes and businesses in Australia.
Australian builder turned inventor, Matthew Lennox, saw an opportunity in the market to protect storm damaged homes and businesses in Australia.
It’s been 8 months since Hurricane Michael hit Florida pounding its coast & Mexico Beach, but the area is still in clean up mode, just as hurricane season is about to hit again. There is one damaged home that’s ready for the next hurricane season.
It is storm season and an Illawarra innovation has been helping many Sydney home owners who have suffered property damage in recent months. Matt Lennox is the inventor of Stormseal which helped many Sydney residents following a hail storm just prior to Christmas.
“I always envisioned Stormseal to be a shared value product because I didn’t invent it just to develop a business and provide a product, I wanted people to have better choices, choices that not only benefit their family, but their community too”
As roofers and builders get prepared for storm and hurricane season across the USA by ordering materials and training staff, they’re also creating jobs – especially if they’re using Stormseal.
In June 2018, to test Stormseal’s weather resistance under the most extreme natural conditions it was installed on the roof of a hut high in the Swiss Alps. ‘Over several weeks, the wind speed average was over 100 km/h [62 miles/h] and some days up to 200 km/h [124 miles/h]. At the end of January, after many storms, the Stormseal film was still looking good.
For Ryan and Chey Johnson, the happy arrival of their second child was sadly offset by the devastating damage to their Berowra home caused by the December 2018 hailstorm.
‘After the hail wrecked the roof, the wind and rain came,’ said Ryan.
97% of Berowra homes damaged by the hailstorm were ‘made safe’ with tarpaulins, many of which have since failed multiple times.
A massive storm hit the home of Todd and Jo Chapman just before Christmas. “It was frustrating because the insurers kept having to get contractors back to make safe the house again, but they just kept blowing away, letting the rain in,” said Todd. “I would conservatively estimate that the original damage has now increased by 50%.”
It takes the same number of person-hours (12) to cover an average-sized (150m2), storm-damaged home with Stormseal or tarps. The first tarp installation to an entire home costs around $3,500 in labour and materials. Each re-installation costs…
When the catastrophic pre-Christmas hail storm hit with hail the size of softballs, David was lucky with his insurer – Youi – which came immediately the next day and arranged for Stormseal to be installed to protect the damage.
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