How To Remove & Install Shutters. Removing Window Shutters.

Um, this is Chris, the Idaho Painter. In this video, we're going to show you how we go about taking off shutters to prepare your house to paint. And in the background, we got two sets of shutters here. And typically, your shutters are installed two different ways. And they're either be installed by a Phillips head screw. So, you're going to want a screwdriver or a drill with a number three Phillips head screw. or they're going to be installed with what we call a quick lock shutter button. And the quick lock shutter button, these are typically permanent style fixtures that the shutter is installed with. And there'll be a hole drilled in there. This um what we call we call them shutter buttons will be pushed into that hole and it's got a barb style of fixture on it that it doesn't allow it to back out. Every now and then with these type of shutter buttons on there, you can get behind here and pull the shutter off and and if you're lucky, the shutter will come off and the button will be intact. If not, you got to cut them off. Buy new buttons that they sell at Home Depot and they're fairly expensive, but we keep them in our vans just for this purpose. If it has a shutter button on it, you're going to want to take a five in one tool. We just use a 5 in one like this. And you'd want to get behind the face of the button and you'll just put put your five in one tool behind it. And then you're just going to tap it with your hammer and then you would just knock it off like if this was a shutter button. This is a Phillips head screw and we'll show you how to remove that. But if it's a shutter button, you're just going to chop the end of the button off and then the shutter will come out and then you'll just pull the button out or push it in through the hole. And these shutters here we got they're Phillips head screws. So we're going to remove the Phillips head screws on it. Your typical shutter screws are pretty long screws. So, it's a good idea to use a drill instead of having to unscrew them, hand unscrew them with just a screwdriver. Now, it's pretty critical that you take the shutter, flip it back over on this side of it, and on this back side, it's going to tell you whether you could actually paint it or not. And some shutters that are non-p paintable, they're going to be stamped up here, melted into the plastic. It's going to say do not paint. And whatever you do, you can't even prime them and paint them. You do not want to paint them. Don't even attempt to. They're going to peel. So, these shutters have flipped them over. They're black. They don't have anything stamped on them that we can't paint them. So, we can paint them. And you can either paint them black again or paint them whatever color you want. And then you're going to want to flip them over. You want to know, we've got a lot of shutters on this house, so we want to know exactly where this one came up cuz every hole and every screw hole is different. So, I've got a roll of tape here. In the shutter itself, you can see there's a bottom and top portion. Fat portion down here. The arched portion is the top of the shutter. So, you want to make note what's the top. So, you don't install them. Everybody does it. They install them upside down. Then, you got to go back and reinstall them. So, we put a piece of tape. We're going to put an arrow showing that's up. And then we'll shutter. This will be number one. And then um you want to number yours in some type of logical system. You know, I can start right here and go number one from left to right or you can start over there. Whatever works for you. You got to get some type of numbering system. So this shutter will get back up to where it goes. And you can't put a mark on the house because even though the shutter is going to go up, you end up painting that mark. So it's just good. We use usually start from the left and we start with number one and work our way to that side of the house. And that's how you'll remove the shutters once they're painted. Or if you're not going to paint them and the house is painted, they just reinstall the exact way they come off. Make sure you flip them over, look on the back, determine whether they're paintable or not before you decide to paint them. This is Chris, the Idaho Idaho Painter. How to remove and reinstall a pair of shutters.