Local Shutter InstallersSubject
Openings
Bifolds, bays, corner glass and wide spans. 15 guides.
SurveyArches and shaped heads
Roller shutters want a straight head and a rectangular opening. Arches can sometimes take a shutter on the rectangular part below the spring line,.
SurveyBay windows
A curved or faceted bay is an awkward roller. Separate flat curtains on each facet are sometimes possible and often ugly.
SurveyBifold handles and the stack
The doors must open fully without hitting the guides, and the handles must clear the curtain's path. A shutter designed on a door schedule and fitted.
SurveyCorner glazing
Glass that turns a corner has no mullion to hide a guide. The shutter design becomes two curtains and a corner post, or a different product entirely.
Long noteExternal shutters for bifold doors
Bifold doors can take an external shutter when the head is straight, the guides clear the tracks and handles, and the box has somewhere to live. The.
SurveyFloor-to-ceiling glass
Domestic curtain wall and full-height sliders can take a shutter if the head can carry the box and the guides have a place to land. The box on a.
SurveyFrench doors under one curtain
A pair of French doors can take one curtain if the width is modest and the head is straight. Two narrow curtains look busier and avoid a very wide axle.
SurveyGarage doors are a different product
A roller garage door is a big industrial cousin. It is not a slim window shutter, and a window-shutter firm is not automatically a garage-door firm.
SurveySash windows
A sliding sash wants to be able to open, and a historic sash often wants to be left looking like itself. An external box across a Georgian or Victorian.
SurveyShutters over doors you escape through
If this door is how people leave in a fire, a motor must not be the only way to open the curtain. Building control and common sense agree on that even.
SurveySide lights beside a door
A door with glazed side lights is three openings or one wide curtain with a complicated sill. One curtain is cleaner if the head aligns.
SurveySliding patio doors
Sliders have a frame and a track that the guide must not foul. The shutter usually sits proud of the frame on the outside.
SurveyThresholds and the bottom bar
The bottom bar wants a fair meeting with the sill. Sloped thresholds, clip-on ramps and bifold tracks leave gaps that waste the security and the.
SurveyUp-and-over doors versus rollers
People searching for shutters sometimes want a garage door. An up-and-over, a sectional and a roller door solve a garage.
SurveyVery wide openings
Past a certain width the axle, the motor torque and the box all jump. A mid guide can split one huge curtain into two that actually stay square.