Do Plantation Shutters Make an Empty Holiday Home Secure? What Police and Council Advice Says
Plantation shutters will not secure an empty house on their own, and none of the summer security advice we lined up suggests they do.
ReadField notes from the lake's windows
What we've learned measuring and fitting around Lake Macquarie, written down for homeowners making the call. No prices in here, and no sales gloss either; the notes are worth more to you honest.
West-Facing Windows in Daylight Saving: Why the Afternoon Sun Is So Hard to Block
Until April, the hardest sun your house gets will arrive while you're home to feel it.
Read
What shutters cost, and why
The seven things that move a shutter quote, and how to line up three quotes so they describe the same job. No prices, just the honest way to a fair one.
Read
Do shutters block out heat?
What the Australian Government's YourHome guide says about shading, and which windows to start with this spring.
Read
The 4pm window
What forty kilometres of water does to a west-facing lounge, and how blade width and tilt angle fix it. The flagship note.
Read
Salt air and shutter materials
Aluminium, PVC and timber, compared honestly by distance from the water. What corrodes, what wipes down, what belongs in the hills.
Read
Keeping the view: blade widths
63, 89 or 114 millimetres: the sight-line arithmetic that decides whether the horizon sits in one clear band.
Read
Repair or replace?
How to read an ageing shutter: hinges, tilt rods, hazed louvres, and when a morning's repair beats a new fit-out.
Read
Privacy without losing the light
Foreshore paths, second storeys and close neighbours: the louvre-angle geometry that keeps the room yours and bright.
Read
PVC in wet rooms
Bathrooms and laundries are their own weather. The ordinary trade work of waterproof shutters, done properly.
ReadRead something here that sounds like your window? That's what the free measure is for: bring the question, we'll bring the tape and the samples.