How to make shutters on the windows

The shutters on the windows in a country house perform several useful functions. Decorative beautiful sash gives the house an original flavor and perform protective functions. The windows are one of the most vulnerable places in the house. The presence of them on them significantly complicates the task of illegal penetration into the room. Made from the boards or metal of the shutters are equipped not only with external hinged or cut locks, but also with internal pin shut -off elements.

Having set the shutters on the windows, the room will receive additional protection against cold and atmospheric influence. The shutters prevent the sticking of snow, pouring during the rain and the occurrence of drafts. In addition to protection against cold and protective functions - shutters on the windows, can be an excellent decorative element and decoration of the house.   About how to make shutters on the windows, and we will consider their advantages in this article.

Wooden shutters on the windows

Wooden shutters on the windows are internal and external. In structure - thyroid or phylencial, single -winged or double -winged. Make wooden shutters with your own hands can for any owner.

Materials and tools for the manufacture of wooden era

In order to make shutters on the windows wooden, you will need boards with a thickness of 20 mm and a width of 10 to 20 cm. It is better to choose massive veneered boards from solid -faced wood, but you can also purchase a smooth fugue. You will need a woodworking tool: a hacksaw on wood, shirts, drill, chisel, screwdriver, etc.

1. The measuring instrument is Plotnitsky’s corner, roulette and level.
2. Consumables: screws, loops, metal corners and locking elements (locks, bolts, studs, etc.).
3. Olifa, paint, brushes and antiseptic, for the final phase of work.

The process of manufacturing wooden shutters on the windows

Simple shutters on screeds and stilettos

1. First of all, it is necessary to measure the window opening for slopes and platbands. Make a plan scheme and cut the boards.
2. For the end connection of prepared boards for erane, the erace is carried out. Smooth fugue is usually planted on glue and additionally strengthening the overlapping gaps of the rail.
3. Spooned locking casting canvas is much better and easier. To do this, it is selected in the end part of the PAZ board, and on the opposite side the spike. You can purchase a finished rogue board. Such boards are used for flooring.
4. A close -knit canvas is strengthened by transverse overlays and ugsin. Such elements are suitable for simple, performing utilitarian functions of evens. For hidden rallying shields, threaded studs are also used.
5. In this case, in the end sides of the boards, holes are drilled with a thin drill. Then they are drilled to the diameter of the threaded hairpin. The boards are strung on long stilettos and tightened with bolts. The ends of the boards are densely coated with carpentry glue for sealing possible cracks.

Filenced wooden shutters

1. Filenka is a thin board inserted into the frame frame. Such shutters combine beauty and strength. Ready -made Philnas and a profiled beam with a groove chopping groove can be purchased at a construction store or ordered in a carpentry workshop.
2. Filenes can be smooth or decorated, with layouts of a linen beam or with selected strokes, figure, floating and with a frame of decorated thread.
3. Broofs of strapping - performing the role of a tightening frame are selected 5 mm thicker than a philanic. Ottered and polished bars are connected by single or double spikes with eyelets.
4. Files, smeared with glue, are inserted into the assembled frame, and the wounds are fixed on the plane until completely dry.
5. A chisel on the sidewalls of wooden runs and on the platbands of the windows the planting nests under the loops are abrasen.  Cut elements are cut and mounted and shutters can be mounted on slopes. The sash exposed in level, erase in loop nests and are attached with screws.
6. The final stage is the coating of wooden era with impregnation that prevents rotting, olifa and after drying out painting or opening with varnish. Various options depicting shutters on the windows are in the photo.

Shutters for windows made of metal

1. For those who care more about safety, it would be logical to install metal shutters on the windows. Such steel wings can be ordered in the workshop for the manufacture of armored doors.   Depending on the complexity, area and thickness of steel for the shows on the windows, the price ranges from 200 to 250 cu.
2. You can make shutters on the windows yourself, but if you are not a professional in cold metal processing and not a welder, then you will get simple and durable metal sash. Metal decorative shutters on windows decorated with forged elements are best ordered in the workshop.

The procedure for the manufacture of metal ere

1. In order to make iron shutters on the windows, you will need a 50 corner, it will go on the lutts of a ruin, a steel sheet in size of a window opening with a thickness of 2 - 3 mm. To reinforce the canvas and give the ribs of stiffness, you can use a channel, a square cross -section or corner. The main requirement - the rib of stiffness should not advocate the contours of the eve.
2. An important point in the manufacture of metal shows on the windows are the correct measurements of the window opening. Each vertical and horizontal side of the slopes and window sills, measure separately, verify the corners and diagonals.
3. From a metal corner, a contour frame for evens is welded. A steel canvas cut in size is attached to the frame. This is usually done with welding, and the weld passes from the wrong side, but in the absence of a welding machine, the connection using metal screws for metal. The step for them should be no more than 5 cm, and the adjoins are sealed with silicone waterproof and frost -resistant sealant.
4. Depending on the configuration of the window opening and the era, stiffeners are made. Both horizontal and cross -shaped ribs from a metal profile are provided.
5. On the vertical planes of the frame, the holes for loops are drilled. The loops on metal shutters are fixed with self -tapping screws or small bolts. On the side of the slopes, the mount is carried out by anchors.

If desired or technical necessity, you can install the shutters on the windows internal. They are made in the same way as external ones, only installed from the inside.