Keep your home warm this winter with wooden plantation shutters or solid shutters.
Looking outside and seeing it snowing in early November, the time has come to think about home maintenance, security and warmth. After all the clocks have changed, now we’re pulling the curtains, reaching for the blankets and turning the central heating up full in an attempt to maintain privacy and keep warm. Solid wood shutters and plantation shutters can help make your home snug and secure this winter, assisting with heat retention, privacy and security.
How solid wood shutters and plantation shutters can help to retain heat.
With cold winds, rain or snow beating at your windows it can quickly lower the temperature of a room, making it feel chilly, draughty and uncomfortable and forcing you to turn up the heating or stoke the fires much earlier than you might have wished. With installation of solid wood shutters or plantation shutters this can help to keep your home or office warm in couple of ways. Closing your solid wood shutters or moving the slats of your plantation shutters to the ‘closed’ position creates a barrier, which greatly reducing the amount of heat lost through your windows. They also insulate against draughts coming in from the outside.
Solid shutters and plantation shutters can improve your the privacy of your home.
For those living on a busy street or with a open aspect wooden shutters improve your home’s privacy by stopping people looking in. In the case of the solid wooden shutter, these open and close in a concertina fashion, hinged as they are on the vertical axis. This means that they can be fully, partially or completely closed. When completely closed they achieve virtual blackout and make it impossible for neighbours or passers by to see through them.
In a similar way, plantation shutters can also be fully, partially or completely closed. Plantation shutters work differently to solid wooden shutters in that they open and close on the horizontal axis as well as concertina. The slats or louvres rotate through 180° varying the amount of light allowed to pass through them as they turn. This adjustments of the louvres alters a person’s line of sight and it is this that prevents people from being able to see into your room.
Improve your home’s security with solid shutters and plantation shutters.
Increase your home’s security by making it harder for people to see into your home by fitting your home with plantation shutters. Both types of shutter provide an extra layer of protection, covering your windows, which will act as a deterrent to unwelcome intruders.