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Charlie
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Username: Cking27
Post Number: 6
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 11:28 am: | 
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We're looking for a good place to buy wooden shutters.
Also, I'm wondering if we should order them unfinished and prime/paint and install them ourselves. Or, if we should order them through someone that does all of that for us. Does anyone have experience with replacing their shutters? How did it go?
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Jennifer Pickett
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Username: Jpickett
Post Number: 212
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 9:58 pm: |
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I got ours from Timberlane.com. They can custom-match existing or can make you whole new sets from stock sizes. We got inexpensive reproduction shutter hardware from shuttercraft.com. I highly recommend both sites. I got our shutters preprimed (they sometimes offer free priming deals), Rutgers is painting and hanging them as part of our house painting job. Timberlane makes old-fashioned, thick, durable shutters- they are pricey (our custom job was about $600 for two pairs of louvered shutters), but very high quality, you get them in about a month. |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 782
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 9:59 pm: |
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Hello Charlie,
I bought a house with no shutters (just the mounting hardware on the house) this past June. I searched all of the shutter possibilities and it's no small thing.
Basically you can spend $10-$20 grand or more for custom shutters, which are what these old houses should have. OR, you can buy cheap vinyl at home depo and nail them up next to your windows. With no hinge. Home Depot actually sells, vinyl black "hinge" decorations to glue or screw on to the vinyl shutter.
How do you like those choices?
Me neither. So I waited. Not too long ago a guy offered up his shutters in the classified section of MOL. They were not original, they were wood and they had been nailed up on his house by the previous owner. It was too good a deal to not try. I bought the hardware at Schneider's Hardware in West Orange, and mounted them.
They don't close because they are 1/4 inch to long on the top and the bottom and probably wouldn't meet in the middle if they did. Sure I could cut off the 1/4 inch but from the street who can tell?
I bought them second hand, but someone bought these wooden shutters new.
http://www.exteriorshutter.com/wooden.htm
Still pretty expensive, but not like the custom ones.
tp://www.signatureshutters.com/
So, I'm painting and hanging shutters for nine windows this summer, and it'll probably be less than 300 dollars total. It took some work and some luck, but I'm SOO glad I didn't jump for the links I posted above.
Good Luck,
J.B.
I can always replace them with the custom ones when I'm done fixing everything else on the house.
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peteglider
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Username: Peteglider
Post Number: 1945
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 10:11 am: |
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I was at Jaeger lumber a few weeks ago waiting in line. A customer was having a discussion with the guys at the desk -- he wanted to order more new shutters for his house.
Guys at the desk said they would not recommend hanging the new wooden shutters on hinges -- that they just were not sturdy enough, but rather each corner needs to be screwed to the house. They said the other option was to gusset each corner in the back.
The customer was pretty mad at this point, apparently he'd already replaced most of his shutters (I guess the persons at the desk that day didn't have the same advice)! They told him within a year the hinged shutters would sag..
/p
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gj1
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Username: Gj1
Post Number: 345
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 10:47 am: |
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Cheap hinges may sag, but there is no reason that good heavy-duty hinges should fail.
As for price, from places like Timberlane, you're looking at around $300/window depending on the size and style of shutters you choose. Hardware is extra and depends on what you get. |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 788
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 1:43 pm: |
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The hinges will hold, but the shutter frame will sag IF it's a louvered shutter. I am planning on screwing "L" things to each corner. Also I'm going to get the "S" shaped shutter dogs, which may provide support to the outer edges.
If I had paid full price, I'd be pissed too. But a little extra work to make my MOL shutters hang is money in the bank.
J.B.
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Charlie
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Username: Cking27
Post Number: 7
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 8:15 pm: |
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Thanks for all of the good information. My wife likes the timerlane website a lot. So, I appreciate Jersey Boy's recommendation for a less expensive site.
Also, like the notice about hardware. We like the look of the hung shutters so we'll need to make sure that we get good hardware.
We may go with an incremental approach to replacing them. -- JUst add new ones now and then next year replace the existing that are a getting a little worn.
Based on post above - Jaeger lumber would also be a source?
And, one more thing -- Is cedar the recommended wood for shutters?
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Jersey girl
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Username: Critterlover
Post Number: 36
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 1:40 pm: |
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I have a friend who was for many years a carpenter, worked making furniture.
He works in a related field now, but enjoys repairing furniture and wood working in his time off.
If you are interested, I will ask him about making your shutters.
You can also call Rutgers Painting or Tico's Carpentry. I saw some newly made shutters, unfinished, in the office when I stopped in for a copy of some paperwork. I didn't ask about them, but I would think any house painting outfit would need such services fairly often.
Jersey girl |
The3ofUs
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Username: The3ofus
Post Number: 4
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 1:47 pm: |
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shuttercraft.com
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