It's not every day that we get to road test our products in an extreme manner. And this time when I say road test, it's quite literal. So what does it look like when someone actually runs into a rolling shutter?
Monday hole-y Monday
So it's about 8:40 and I'm pouring the second cup of coffee of the day, and our lead sales guy Monty Montez calls up:
"Travis, you have to get up to the Fiesta Pawn on the north side of Houston, it looks like some one has run into our shutter... and it's still in tact."
So I'm thinking to myself, 'Okay, but this thing has to be shredded like cheese through a grater.'
Gulp down the coffee, check the batteries in the camera, and it's off to the pawn shop to inspect the damage. A good 45 minutes later and I pull up on the scene of the incident. The shop is located right off of the frontage road on busy I-45 North.
Bang up job
On first inspection, the shutter didn't look that bad! I mean, it's still up, hanging in the rails. Closer inspection reveals that the bottom left side of the curtain has pulled out from the rails.
I was more curious to find out what happened on the inside of the store, since that's what really matters. So after heading inside and meetting with a manager, he informs me that it was indeed a mini van that lost control and ended up hitting the curtain. It barreled over the concrete barricade and collided with the shutter. The glass on the inside was broken out completely, but judging from the interior photos, little real physical damage was done to the store. The manager also commented that this was the first incident since they purchased their Rollac shutters. No break-ins!
If you can stop a van
The shutter system Fiesta Pawn purchased was the RLL55-X extruded with the End Retention System, the strongest extruded slat Rollac offers. If it can stop a van just imagine what it would do against the typical thug trying to break into their store.
