Shutters are the so-called doors for windows that cover the space at home from prying eyes and sunlight. Classic shutters consist of two halves, which are closed and combined with each other, but there are still many different modifications.
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Functional purpose and benefits of use
The advantage of shutters is that, unlike windows, they protect the house not only from sunlight, but also from uninvited guests. This design is reliably locked on the castle from the inside and creates an additional obstacle to the thieves. Even if the thief tries to open the shutters, he will create a lot of noise, which will definitely attract the attention of neighbors.
In the cold season, external or internal wooden shutters help create an additional screen, delaying heat in the house. If the design is installed correctly and efficiently, shutters and their joints do not have slots, the number of drafts indoors is significantly reduced.
Shutters decorate windows. Many years ago, they were equipped with all at home, while the shutters decorated with carvings and paintings, who gave home individuality. Now manufacturers are represented by buying finished products for every taste and color. Modern shutters are produced in different colors, from various materials and easy to enter into any interior.
The most important appointment is to protect the room from sunlight and prying views. With this design, the room easily shades even on the sunny day. If the house is not equipped with shutters from the very beginning, this element is easy to install yourself at any time. It is only necessary to choose the type of staven, which is suitable for the interior and exterior of the house.
Varieties of Staven
For various types of windows and interiors, various decorative elements are needed. Shutters in this sense is no exception, because each wishing to establish shutters have the opportunity to choose from several structural varieties:
- Shutters with one sash. Ideal for windows of small sizes, which are inappropriate to install the design of their two halves. Installation of shutters from one sash is made both outside and from the inside. The outer design is closed using a conventional lock, similar to constipation for the front door. The inner design is closed by any convenient way - on the castle or ordinary goal.
- Shutters with two sash. This is a classic design that meets in private houses everywhere. Their advantage over the model with one sash is that when the halves opening, the window looks more naturally and symmetrically. Constiplations on such shutters most often do two, one connects halves among themselves, and the other fixes them in this state.
- Folding structures. This configuration has not one and not two halves, but several - 4, 6, 8 or more. This design consists on the principle of harmonica and is the most convenient and universal. Folding shutters make it possible to cover or open the window not completely, but only partially, that is, regulate the level of illumination in the room. They are installed from the inside and outside, on one side of the window or on both sides.
- Shutters-blinds. This design on the principle of work is similar to ordinary window blinds. The differences are that in the form of the fact that they have a frame of a strong material and allow not only to raise and lower the rails, passing the light into the room, but also to open the frame itself. Shutters are convenient for the external installation, since it is advisable to establish ordinary blinds into the inner premises. However, some decorative modifications of this product will not only protect the house, but also complement the interior of the uniquely stylish element.
- Shutters for windows are also attributed to the rank, as they perform the same function. This design is a rising and descending canvas, the movement of which is carried out due to the built-in mechanism. Most often, shutters are installed on the outside of the window, since inside such a design looks cumbersome and spoils the view of the interior.
Material manufacturing material
But the shutters differ not only by the type of their design, they are made from various materials, each of which has its advantages and disadvantages. Before making installation, it is necessary to determine which material is preferable.
- Wooden shutters. This material is used for the manufacture of centuries. Most often, shutters are decorative, and not a protective function, and wooden shutters allow you to choose and change their design depending on our own taste preferences. Decorating wooden products by firing, carvings, wrought elements or conventional paint paintings. From the tree, not only classic shutters of two rods, but also single-bag, folding shutters and even blinds. The only drawback of wood is not stable before external influences. But with this disadvantage, it is not difficult to fight if you regularly process shutters with protective solutions.
- Metal shutters. This specification carries more protective function, rather than decorative. Metal is a cold and heavy material that will not give the house the type of the magic ease, which the wooden shutters give. But for unwanted guests, this kind of material will be a serious obstacle on the way. Improve the appearance of steel from metals with decorative threads and staining. Metal manufactures shutters from one sash, two, as well as rollers.
- Plastic shutters. This material is the most economical and durable, since plastic is indifferent to temperature differences, atmospheric precipitation and other environmental impacts. The minus of these is the low level of protection. Plastic is easy to break even breaking out of the loops. In addition, he does not delay heat indoors. From this material, all types are made.
The advantages of using the domestic
The most important advantage of the internal is that they do not require the installation of a system of complex shut-off mechanisms. Since these shutters are located indoors, they are enough to lock on ordinary casuals or cheek. The safety of the internal is also in the fact that they will not attract attention. The house with closed external shutters, as it were, signals that the owners in it now do not. The inner shutters are not as noticeable from the street, and the curtain between the window and sash will make them and not visible at all. Thus, the impression will always be created that someone is at home.
The advantage of the internal is in front of the lattices in their mobility. The grille is placed once and for all, shutters open or completely remove and do not spoil the view from the window. Moreover, the price of shutters is much lower, especially if you install them personally. Internal shutters will not spoil the interior if you choose an interesting design and reorganize it in accordance with your taste. Especially organically combined wooden sliding shutters with a rustic style, emphasizing its simplicity and originality.
And even if there are very small rooms in the house, which must be equipped with shutters, it will not be a problem. Just during the installation of shutters are made so that, if necessary, they easily starred and installed back. In this case, at the time, while in the stems there is no need, they are cleaned into the chulad or another room.
How to install internal shutters with your own hands
Installed internal shutters on the windows simple enough. First of all, it is necessary to measure the window opening and make shutters or acquire them. For standard windows, ready-made products are sold, for non-standard openings it is necessary to order sash individually. When measurements, it is important to take into account the rack thickness for mounting.
When buying ready-made steel, all the necessary fittings are most often included, it is also sometimes offered to decorative decorations. But if there are no accessories in the kit or shutters are made independently, then all the necessary elements are calculated and bought. The process of installing classic wooden shutters with two flaps is as follows:
- Initially, the quality of the protective coating at the shutters is checked, if necessary, the sash is treated with a skin. This is done because the installed shutters to process are inconvenient.
- If the frame is dismantled, then it is collected by fasteners.
- The frame is applied to the window to the window and temporarily fixed. It should be tight leaning around the walls.
- With the help of the construction level, the evenness of all planes check. If the size is fed by incorrectly and they are less than the window opening, then the excess space is filled with pieces of wood.
- The drill is drilled in a hole frame, screw screws in them and fix.
- Now the ram is performed to the frame if their size coincide, outlines the place for the loops.
- Drill the holes drill and screws screw the hinges to the frame and to shutters.
- The loops are treated with lubricating oil.
- Connect parts of the loop on the frame with hinges on the shutters and check the smoothness of their stroke. If the shutters did not take a smooth horizontal position, it is corrected using a substrate.
- All fasteners decorated with special linings.
- The slots are filled with a sealant or putty.
This is the installation process of standard removable shutters. By the same principle, all designs are mounted in addition to rolls that require a slightly different installation sequence. The design is replaced and improved at its discretion, for example, change the deaf wooden shower on the grid, which is inserted into the frame. Only as a protective element, the grid is chosen thick and strong.
The locking device is installed on the shutter. The principle of its installation is very simple, a lock, a cheek or constipation to purchase, place a place of installation, drill holes and securely secure all the designs, that's all the installation. The role of shine is more protective, but you should not lose sight and their decor, which will help to organically enter this element in the interior room.
Wooden decoration methods
One of the most elegant solutions requires an approach at the design stage of the design. If you use, instead of a lattice or solid board, horizontal thin rails stuffed on the frame through equal intervals, then such shutters will decorate and complement the interior. This design looks easy, does not create an oppressive sensation of a closed space.
The easiest way to decor wooden is your own hands - painting. If there are not enough artistic skills to apply the pattern, the template will help the template that is easily manufactured independently. The drawing is selected, prints on a sheet of paper, and then transferred to the surface of the shutter. For the decor, any painting is suitable - flowers, animals or even entire plots.
Excellent decorate shutters various carved elements. They decorate the shine itself and the window around the perimeter to supplement the composition and enter all the components into it. This decoration is also manufactured independently or purchased ready. Carved wooden decorations at shutters are the Slavic classic, which was decorated at home at all times.
Decorate shutters and various forged metal elements. Their stores are offered in a large assortment, and in the workshops they are manufactured by individual order. However, this kind of decoration is more suitable for external staven. But it all depends on the interior decoration of the house and its style.
Decorate not only the shutters themselves, but experiment with their design. Mounted sliding shutters or sash complex shapes in which there are many moving elements. Such structures are not only beautiful, but also convenient, as they make it possible to adjust the amount of light incoming to the house.
