Installing Window Shutters on Single Patio Doors

By Timothy Sprout


You can install wooden shutters over the openings of sliding patio doors or over the glass on French doors. This can be completed as either bi-fold or bypass schemes.

Fitting plantation patio door shutters is a stylish option against using the everyday heavy curtains or vertical blinds. You can employ shutter systems up to a 4 metre width. It is possible to get a change that's sensational by employing other bi-fold or bypass patio door shutter units, which use track systems to give that new look to a standard patio door.

Bypass Shutters

The bypass shutters will exploit two top tracks to run on, and therefore will let all two sections to operate, comparable to what closet sliding doors do, making allowances for access via the patio door shutters.

Bi-Fold Shutters

The bi-fold shutter unit is a system that slides on a single track, with the single-track system making allowances for additional opening exposure when they're stacked. Having said that, they are going to extend, at the width of an one panel, into the room. There are a large range of likely panel configurations, including:

Triple Section

Double Section

Splits

Open up Left

Open Up Right

As we have discussed, there are a large amount of great choices for your patio door shutters. You may produce something exceptional out of almost any standard patio door. Let's proceed and talk of French patio door shutters.

French Patio Door Shutters

Installing shutters onto your French doors eliminates that annoying blind banging you get when opening and closing the doors. Shutters straight mount over the surface area of the glass that's on the doors front. When doing shutter installs throughout the house on your windows, there's positively little need for you to reach a compromise with your doors by using a different window treatment.

Installing Shutters for French Doors

At first, take the dimensions of the outside glass areas, being bound to include any molding that envelopes the glass. Furthermore, be sure that you note the flat space that's between the doorhandle area and the molding. Doing so is crucial to making the determination in relation to whether or not going with a four sided frame is possible or not. Ensure that you follow all manufacturer directions; but this info gives some guidance on what you should expect when installing your French patio door shutters.

Conclusions/Alerts

French patio door shutters will be mounted by utilisation of the L-frame. This will be done on both just the bottom and the top, or on all 4-sides. This is really just reliant upon the clearance you have with the door-handle and if it'll permit for the frame or not.

Please Be Mindful: An 'Outside Mount ' refers to the mounting of the L-frame outside the glass that's on the face of the doors interior side; it doesn't mean that you will be mounting on the outer surface of the door, as these are interior shutters.

Occasionally you'll have issues with the lever handle that extends over the area of the glass, which should prevent you from installing your patio door shutters. If you find yourself having that problem, simply replace the handle with a knob as an alternative. As an alternative, employing a stem extension for the lever would work as well. Either option is fine, just depends on the look you prefer and are going for. Enjoy your French patio door shutters, they'll look extraordinary.




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