Installing House Shutters

Previously shutters were considered as the means to shut doors and windows. But in recent times the shutters are designed to add aesthetic beauty to your house. Nowadays most of the shutters are designed as decorative accessories besides its major function of providing security.

Installing a decorative shutter is comparatively an easy task. The popular two techniques used for installation of shutters are by direct attachment and by using the hidden clips. Nailing or screwing the shutter in the sidewalls of the house is the only major activity that you need to accomplish in the direct attachment process. Using the clips permits the shutter to be installed with no noticeable attachment hardware. In this process you need to mount the clips to your home's exterior, and the shutters are placed on the mounted clips.

The instruction manual that comes with the shutters will have guidelines for installing the shutter. The recommendation may vary depending on the material used for manufacturing the shutter as well as the exterior of your house. For instance, you can fit the wood shutters directly with nails or screws. But in case of vinyl shutters the clip type method is more preferred than nails or screws. Usually the clips are supplied with the shutter for clip type installation. The manufacturer will provide a template with the shutters that is needed for the clip attachment method of installation. The template will guide you to understand the actual placement of clips relating to the sides, top, and bottom of the shutter.

Attaching the shutter to stone, brick, or masonry structures is different from the clip method of installation. First you mark the spot required for the top screws in the middle of the side rails. The spot should be in the exactly required distance from top of your shutter which you should measure first. You need to be cautious while lining up the screw spots with mortar joint. Drilling in rock or brick is harder than drilling in mortar. The same process you need to repeat for bottom screws. Keep them again in the exact distance from bottom of shutter.

Depending on the shutter's height you may need more screws. You must evenly space the extra screws between the bottom and the top screws. Then take out the shutter and make the holes with required diameter on the face of the shutter at marked screw spot. Subsequently, you need to drill holes rightly in the accurate spots for each screw location. Drilling the holes in the accurate gaps from the top as well as bottom is important enough to fasten the shutters perfectly and for proper functions of the shutters.