11965 External shutters

Hi Chantelle
Cant help with the dipping company, but just a word of warning, dipping does a lot of damage to the wood, so if there that old , they may just fall apart................good luck

Shutters are made of very thin wood, so I would heed deborahandricky's warning about aggressive dipping. You can get a tool - like a Black and Decker 'Mouse', which has a 'finger' with sandpaper attached which gets in between the slats - but it isn't a quick or easy job.

Thanks for the replies, will have to consider my options, may have to buy new ones.

Hi chris66

Have you tried using Nitromors (a powerful paint stripper). It can be painted on with a brush before being left to bubble. You can then use a sharp scraper or chisel knife to get the paint off. This should allow you to get into the slats. It would be similar to dipping but much milder on the joints in the timber.

Good luck

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maybe quickest opition is to try sand blasting (sabbiatura) although I'm not sure if your shutters will stand up to it, I just had the old wood beams in my rustico sand blasted by the building and they came up trumps...
Here is a web site with the idea:
[url=http://www.ibix.it/blaster_specialcleaning_english/eco_blasters/ecoblaster_ibix9f2.htm]IBIX Pulizie speciali - sabbiatrici portatili per sabbiatura ecologica[/url]

Hi Chantelle

If you do buy new shutters it would be interesting to know how much they cost and where you can buy them from. I've only just started looking into buying new windows and shutters for my house. Apart from having them made locally, I've not seen them for sale in any larger builders yards or 'brico' type places. A neighbour recently went to France in a van to collect windows and shutters from the nearest French supplier of [url=http://www.lapeyre.fr/]Lapeyre : vente en ligne et conseils pour la maison ; cuisine, salle de bains, dcoration intrieur, extrieur[/url] across the border in Nice. They were really cheap and worth the trip if you are getting a job lot for a whole house worth of windows, doors and shutters.

Kevan

Hi Chantelle

I've seen shutters for sale in Prealpina (sp?) which come in a kit form. These could be easily modified for different sizes with a little work. I can't vouch for the quality but they look like the standard louvre-style shutters.

I read somewhere about very high security shutters which are incredibly resilient to break-ins which I'd be interested to learn more about if anyone knows any particular makes or links...?

Cheers

Rob

hi! have you sorted your probelm? I stay in monferrato so I can ask my joiner where he gets the shutters dipped!