Identify Shutter Fastener Types and Initial Removal

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