Remove Shutters with Quick Lock Buttons

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How To Remove & Install Shutters. Removing Window Shutters.

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If your shutters are installed with quick lock shutter buttons and they cannot be gently pulled off, you will need to cut the buttons. To do this, take a 5-in-1 tool and carefully position it behind the face of the shutter button, directly against the siding or surface the shutter is attached to. Once positioned, use a hammer to tap the 5-in-1 tool, effectively chopping off the end of the shutter button. This allows the shutter to be removed. The presenter notes that new replacement buttons are typically sold at hardware stores like Home Depot and can be relatively expensive, so it's common for professionals to keep them on hand.

Goal: Detach shutters installed with quick lock buttons from the house.

Tools and materials

5-in-1 tool — Prying and cutting off quick lock shutter buttons
Hammer — Tapping the 5-in-1 tool

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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

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