How to make shutters on windows

Shutters on windows in a country house perform several useful functions. Decorative beautiful leaves give the house an original color and perform protective functions. The windows are one of the most vulnerable places in the house. The presence of shutters on them significantly complicates the task of illegal entry into the premises. Made of boards or metal shutters, are equipped not only with external hinged or mortise locks, but also with internal pin locking elements.

Installing shutters on windows, The room will receive additional protection from cold and atmospheric influences. Shutters prevent snow sticking, flooding during the rain and the appearance of drafts. In addition to protection from cold and protective functions - shutters on windows, can be a wonderful decorative element and decoration of the house. About how to make shutters on windows, and their advantages will be discussed in this article.

Wooden shutters on windows

Wooden shutters on windows, there are internal and external. By structure - panel or panel, single-leaf or double-leaf. To make wooden shutters by own hands on forces to any owner.

Materials and tools for the manufacture of wooden shutters

In order to produce shutters on wooden windows, you 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 hardwoods, but you can purchase a smooth fugue. You will need a woodworking tool: a hacksaw on wood, a plane, a drill, a chisel, a screwdriver, etc.

1. Measuring instrument - Corner carpentry, measuring tape and level.
2. Consumables: self-tapping screws, hinges, metal corners and locking elements( locks, bolts, studs, etc.).
3. Drying oil, paint, brushes and antiseptic, for the final phase of work.

The process of manufacturing wooden shutters on windows

Simple shutters on screeds and studs

1. First of all, it is necessary to make measurements of the window opening on slopes and lintels. Make a plan outline and cut the boards.
2. For the end connection of the prepared boards for the shutters, the riveting is performed. A smooth fugue is usually planted on the glue and additionally reinforced with a slat overlapping the slit.
3. The doweled locking of the blinds is much better and easier. For this purpose, a groove is selected in the end part of the board, and a spike on the opposite side. You can buy a ready-made pamphlet board. Such boards are used for flooring.
4. Cohesive cloth, reinforced by transverse overhead screeds and jigs. Such elements are suitable for simple shutters that perform utilitarian functions. For the hidden rallying of shields, threaded studs are also used.
5. In this case, in the end faces of the boards, holes are drilled with a thin drill. Then reamed to the diameter of the threaded stud. The boards are threaded on long studs and bolted together. The ends of the boards are densely coated with joinery glue to seal possible slots.

Folded wooden shutters

1. The panel is a thin board inserted into the frame frame. Such shutters combine beauty and strength. Ready-made panels and a profiled beam with a groove of elective grooves can be purchased at the building store or ordered in a carpentry workshop.
2. The panels can be smooth or decorated, with layouts from a pile bar or with selected fretwork, figurine, floating and with a decorated thread frame.
3. Bars of strapping - performing the role of a tightening frame are selected for 5 mm thick panels. Otshgovannye and polished bars are connected by single or double spikes with eyelets.
4. The assembled frame is fitted with panels glued with glue, and the shutters of the shutters are fixed on the plane until completely dry.
5. A chisel on the side of the wooden shutters and on the casing of the windows the seat nests for the hinges are hollowed out. Locked and mounted shut-off elements and shutters can be mounted on slopes. Exposed to the level of the shutters, the shutters sit in the hinged nests and are fastened with screws.
6. The final stage is the covering of wooden shutters with impregnation of festering rotting, drying oil and after drying, painting or opening with varnish. Various variants depicting shutters on windows are on the photo.

Shutters on metal windows

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

The order of manufacturing of metal shutters

1. In order to make iron shutters on windows, you will need a corner 50, it will go to the beams of the shutters, steel sheet to the size of the window opening 2 - 3 mm thick. For reinforcing the web and making the stiffeners, you can use a channel, a square tube or a corner. The main requirement is that the edge of rigidity should not protrude beyond the contours of the shutters.
2. An important moment in the manufacture of metal shutters on windows is the correct measurement of the opening of the window. Each vertical and horizontal side of slopes and windowsills, measure separately, adjust the angles and diagonals.
3. A contoured frame for the shutters is welded from the metal corner. The steel sheet, which has been expanded in size, is fixed to the frame. Usually this is done by welding, and the weld seam passes from the wrong side, but it is possible, in the absence of a welding machine, to make the connection using metal screws. The step for them should be no more than 5 cm, and the junctions are sealed with a silicone waterproof and frost-resistant sealant.
4. Depending on the configuration of the window opening and shutters, stiffeners are made. There are both horizontal and cross-shaped ribs made of metal profile.
5. The holes for the hinges are drilled on the vertical planes of the shutter frame. The hinges on metal shutters are fixed with screws or small bolts. From the side of the slopes fastening is made by anchors.

If you want or need technical, you can install the shutters on the windows inside. They are done in exactly the same way as external, only installed from the inside.