Inspect and Label Shutters for Painting and Reinstallation

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How To Remove & Install Shutters. Removing Window Shutters.

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Once a shutter has been removed, flip it over to inspect the backside. Some shutters, particularly plastic ones, will have a 'Do Not Paint' stamp melted into the plastic. If this stamp is present, you absolutely cannot paint them, not even with primer, as the paint will peel off. If there's no such stamp, the shutters can be painted. To ensure correct reinstallation, take a piece of masking tape and place it on the back of the shutter. Using a permanent marker, draw an arrow pointing upwards to indicate the top of the shutter. Also, assign a sequential number to the shutter (e.g., '1') as part of a logical numbering system (e.g., starting from the left of the house and moving right, or working clockwise). This is crucial because every screw hole and shutter position is unique, and incorrectly reinstalling them can lead to misfits. The presenter advises against marking the house itself, as the new paint job would cover these marks.

Goal: Determine shutter paintability and properly label them to ensure correct reinstallation.

Tools and materials

Masking tape — Creating labels on the back of the shutters
Permanent marker — Writing numbers and arrows on the tape
Removed shutters — The items being inspected and labeled

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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

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