Shutters: the role of yesterday and today
Decorative detail that is practical in nature, and, besides, an important part of the window is the shutters. Special barriers allow you to keep the windows and dwelling safe, actively used by residents of country houses, as an element of protection. In the old days it was they who allowed to decorate the house from the outside quickly and interestingly.
Today, the masters suggest renewing the tradition and installing decorative decoration, the importance of which is difficult to overestimate. As a rule, the main fabric is made of hard coniferous or hardwood wood, and various elements of decoration - from soft rocks, with which it is easy to work with artistic tools.
Currently, specialists have refused to produce only wooden shutters, plastic and iron versions can be found in specialized stores that provide even greater protection, reliability, and thermal insulation, which is very important in the cold season if the house does not have central heating.
What should I remember when installing?
Depending on the material from which the elements are made, plastic, wooden and iron shutters are distinguished. According to the shape of the shutters can be swinging bivalves, hinged or made in the form of blinds.
In order to fasten the swing structure, special hinge pins are used, they provide a smooth opening and closing of the shutters. As a rule, such elements can also be fixed on a special foundation - slopes made for a specific shape and size of the window. This approach allows you to create a really strong, solid construction.
In the process of installation, the main thing is to correctly fix the wooden box, to which the shutters themselves will be attached. Doing self-installation is not recommended for the reason that an unprepared person may not be able to properly "drown" the basic structure, ensure proper depth of its cutting into the window.
Installation of shutters with their own hands
Quality wooden shutters on windows will last a long time if all recommendations and conditions are met at the stage of their installation. For work, you need special screws, insulating foams, which you need to use when creating gaps.
Some experts complete the installation by providing additional shutter protection, they cover their surface with varnish, thereby protecting it from exposure to sunlight and moisture. Such a move is possible if the wishes for additional protection were not taken into account in the design.
If you want to carry out the procedure of hanging wooden shutters yourself, remember a few simple rules. First of all, the whole construction must be assembled before installation, and not in its process, gradually adding elements. If the shape and size during the manufacture of the shutters were calculated correctly, there will be no difficulties with installing the complex.
Cutting, cutting part of the material in place is not a good idea, in the process of work, cracks and ugly depressions can be formed, which will be dealt with in the future. In some cases, the shutter manufacturer sells a whole, not halved construction, offering installers to separate the elements themselves immediately after installation. This has its advantages, so the shutters remain securely protected from scratches, easier to fix and do not interfere with the worker.
Step-by-step actions of the installer
So, first measurements are made. Make a good measurement for each window opening width and height, also do not forget to make small tolerances, approximately 20 and 15 mm respectively. If the windows are sinning with a strong curvature of the opposite profiles, then these tolerances will not save the situation, then you should orient yourself on the diagonal of the window, and measure it.
Even if the windows are curves, you will have to contrive and make even rectangular shutters, otherwise their mechanism will be broken. Therefore, in such critical cases, we choose one of the options - to alter the slope or to expand the shutters in the direction of the defect to cover it. For small windows, shutters are made overhead to reduce clutter around the process, even if the windows are uneven.
Half of the success lies in the reliability and correctness of the lath. For this, a good metal corner is taken, it will provide sufficient rigidity at the base. At the edges of the valves, you also need to arrange the corners. A door leaf shutters should be of good thickness from a dense tree.
Obviously, the question of the bolt should be carefully considered. Here, include imagination, based on expectations in terms of reliability. It is best to consider several types of bolts that fix each leaf separately with respect to the walls and two flaps together relative to each other.
Now, having thought over the whole construction, it is necessary to stop on fixing the shutters directly to the house. In the wall you have to prepare the embedded elements - reliable metal components, most often used armature, with a diameter of about 1 cm. Depth of the location - 10-15 cm.
Fixing mortgages along the vertical elements of the lath in the number of three pieces. The main thing in this business is not to damage the material of the walls to such an extent that it spills out. So, the pins are driven into the wall, the ends should protrude a little. Now the ends are welded to the ends and the wooden part of the shutter is mounted. All is ready!
