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Check Shutter for Paintability

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How To Remove & Install Shutters. Removing Window Shutters.

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After removing a shutter, flip it over to inspect its backside. Some shutters, particularly those made of certain plastic materials, are not designed to be painted. They will often have a stamp or molding on the back that says 'Do Not Paint.' If such a warning is present, do not attempt to paint them, as the paint will eventually peel off. If no such warning is found, and the material appears paintable, proceed to the next step.

Goal: Determine if the shutters can be safely painted.

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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

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