Beginner's Guide to Plantation Shutters - Complete Shopper's Checklist 

I don't think I could have found a better introduction video to shutters. Honest people like you save us so much time in research and headache. Thank you for that

Thank you so much for doing this through video. It was very helpful for me to determine what I want to do in my house. Your work has not gone unnoticed.

Best video on RU-vid about these shutters. Thanks!

Wonderful video. You covered everything I wanted to know!

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Tremendous video!! I’m a DIY guy, and I just couldn’t get my head wrapped around how to install the shutters if I had very limited space from the wall to the window, plus I have molding and a wooden windowsill, framing out the window. You answered all those questions. Thank you so much.

Never heard of plantation shutters and now i'm going to get them. Thank you

Thank you for explaining everything abt shutters. I got some ideas what kind of shutters we need. Happy New Year

Highly informative video Robert, thank you. Funny that you mentioned basswood because that is the species, I'm using to build my plantation shutters within my home in Mobile, Alabama's hot and humid climate. I will be staining selected room shutters and painting the others. I took a scrap piece of basswood and stained it with a lighter walnut color that turned out fantastic. I 100% agree with Basswood Shutters.

Excellent video Robert. Thanks for posting!!!

Good video. We bought the house with shutters already installed except 3 bedroom windows. We want to match the others but not sure what material they are. We are in Vegas so hot like AZ and the 3 windows are facing west so you know that 400pm sun is brutal. Thx

Thanks for the video, very informative and well done.

Excellent information. A thumbs up & a new subscription. Thank you!

Great video, thank you.👍🏼

Wanting plantation shutters in my RV. Needing help with measuring, buying and installation. I’m in Picacho,Az. Thanks Wanda

Thank you so much. Very informative and clear. :)

Fantastic video. Thanks!

Great video but I have a question. I have casement windows each having a crank connected on the bottom so I can either open or close the window with. How do you get around the cranks when measuring?

Thank you Very helpful.

This was very helpful

I saw them today! I wanted to know how to you install them when you have Aluminum windows? Coz I have ring curtains, I just wanted to know. For example, if I those blinds & curtains how, without removing the curtains. ❤🙂

what you forgot to mention: PVC - AKA: Poly, Polywood, Vinyl and other sales terminology. Because PVC on its own is almost useless, it must be combined with a number of additives in order to give it the properties desired in the final product. These additives include toxic plasticizers (such as phthalates), stabilizers containing dangerous heavy metals (such as lead), fungicides, and other toxic substances. Because these additives are not chemically bound to the PVC, the PVC product itself can be immediately dangerous to the consumer. Additives can wash out, pass into other materials or be lost to air. Examples of potential human exposure are as numerous as the PVC products themselves. The smell of new car interiors is a familiar example of what experts call chemical “fogging” from PVC products. Plasticizers have been shown to be directly transferred from PVC plastic “cling film” to food. Children teethe on vinyl toys which contain toxic additives. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning in 1996 when it discovered that PVC mini-blinds were giving off lead dust, which can have brain-damaging effects on children. ALSO Numerous companies and governments have enacted PVC restrictions and material substitution policies. Large companies such as Proctor and Gamble, Mattel, and the Body Shop have phased out PVC packaging. BMW, Herlitz, IKEA, Opel, Sony-Europe and Volkswagen have all announced policies to eliminate PVC uses. Big construction projects such as the Euro-tunnel between England and continental Europe were completed without the use of PVC. PVC is restricted from some city high-rises and military and aerospace projects. Hundreds of European communities have instituted restrictions on the use of PVC in public buildings. The Swedish Parliament voted in 1995 to phase out soft PVC and rigid PVC with additives that are already identified as harmful. In Denmark, government officials phased out use of PVC in the year 2000. FINALLY FIBERBOARD - AKA:Engineered Wood, Composite, Faux-wood, Hybrid and other sales terminology. Formaldehyde resins are commonly used to bind together the fibers in Medium Density Fiberboard, and testing has consistently revealed that MDF products emit free formaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds. (VOC’s) that pose health risks at concentrations considered unsafe, for at least several months after manufacture. Urea-formaldehyde is always being slowly released from the edges and surfaces of MDF. As far back as 1987, the U.S. EPA classified it as a “probable human carcinogen” and, after more studies, the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in 1995, also classified it as a “probable human carcinogen”.. Further information and evaluation of all known data led the IARC to reclassify formaldehyde as a “known human carcinogen” associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia in June 2004.

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Hello, This is good information. Where could I go to do a comparison on the various brands? Thank you.

Forgot to mention where or on what type of surface can these be mounted. I was looking to see if these can be installed on brick surface with fiberglass windows. Thank you

BIG question here... We have crank (casement windows) AND the drywall on the inside of the windows meet the outside drywall with the bullnose style. So question 1) Do you need to use the surface mount (outside mount) shutters when you have casement (crank) windows? 2) Will bullnose style drywall around your windows keep you from being able to even have any style shutters added to your windows? We just paid big money to have all of our newly installed windows "bullnose" style because of the classic Spanish style look of our home. But we always knew that the 2 bedrooms would be getting shutters. So I'm wondering if that is even possible now that we've bullnosed the drywall around each window. Thanks.

Thank you. Wish you lived in Ohio to help me. lol. Great video.

THANK YOU! Is there a shutter solution for interior french doors with glass? I would like privacy in my large Study and have the option to close my louvers when I'm writing. Thank you.

Thanks!

I don’t believe you touched on the louver size. I live in Arizona as well. What would be the best louver size to keep the most light out when they are completely closed?

Lol I call those the California blinds since I’ve seen these so much when I went to CA lol

How can I do a outside mount when I have marble window sill ? I

My concern is that they will restrict light in a darker home ( north facing ) do you notice that ?

What about outside mount

We just purchased a house and are looking for shutters in AZ, what is your company name?

If you offer shutters and installation, how can we contact you?

How to complete open and close?

I knew you were the one to turn to, when I want to just shut the world out. haha

Price of shutters

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I wish you showed how to measure instead of just explaining

Width and heith

The width and the heighth lol

Hello, very informative and well done.