Removing Shutters with Shur-Lok Fasteners. Window Shutter Removal.

propainer. In this video, we're going to show you how to remove shutters that have easy lock shutter buttons on them. These do not have screws that are screwed into the house, but rather they got shutter buttons and they won't come out just by pulling them out cuz they have barbed easy lock buttons on them. And I'm going to show you how we remove them. We actually start off, you want to have a few tools in hand. You're going to want to have a hammer and you're going to want to have a 5 in1 tool that we use. And then we actually use a pair of wire cutters to actually pull the buttons out or clip them off if we have to. You just want to take your five in one, just get them underneath the shutter button, and you're going to tap them lightly till it actually cuts the button off. It's going to cut the face of the button off. [Applause] Now you could actually once the face of those buttons are cut off, now you can remove the shutter. And it actually leaves the other portion of the buttons still in the house and then you're going to There you go. We had a couple of them that actually broke off. So, they shut it out of the six. There was two of them that actually bust it off. And so, we're just taking we're going to clip the end of it completely off. And then we're going to take a flathead screwdriver and we're going to tap it inside till it falls inside the house. Now, we're going to just take a flathead screwdriver on this one that bust it off. Take that screwdriver, tap it in, and it'll just fall into the empty space in the back of the house. Now, you have your empty hole for your new shutter button. Sometimes when you go to tap them in, they're going to hit possibly a stud in the back. Then you're going to have to get a drill and you'll have to drill that button out and create a new hole. Take your five in one, slightly tap on them. It doesn't create, you don't have to use a whole lot of force. to just cut the end of that shutter button off. I don't know why we call them shutter buttons, but they're easy lock shutter buttons. You see there's typically a lot of wasp and hornets behind that you got to clean out. Lightly grip it. If you grip it too hard with the wire cutters, it actually cuts the plastic. So, you got to be careful and just barely grip it. Rock it back. And we like these wire cutters cuz they got a round head and it creates leverage. Then you want to when you're done, you want to clean all the hornets nests off. And then we're actually in the process of power washing this house. So, we'll power wash the opposite sides of the shutters and power wash where we just took off the shutters and get rid of all the hornets nest and bugs. That's one right here that's actually hit a stud cuz it's right next to the window. So, we'll have to get a drill and just drill that one out. So now we got the ones up against the window. They're actually hitting the stud that's the framing around the windows. So we just take a 1/4 in drill bit and we're going to just drill that plastic into that plastic button right out. It usually just drills the plastic out really easy because the surrounding the plastic is the the wood hole and the wood's hole is harder and so the plastic drills out pretty easily. Look at the easy lock shutter fasteners that we use when we reinstall the shutters. We just purchased these from Home Depot and they sell them in packs of 12. And then you're just going to tap new ones in the way just like if you're hammering a nail. And they've got barbed hooks. You can see what the barbed hooks look like. And they'll just tap right back in. And then they're paintable to paint the same colors as your shutters. Going to start putting these shutters back up. And if we get go here is putting the easy lock fasteners in first and the pre-drilled hills in the pre-drilled holes in the shutters. Want to make sure when you install the shutters that you install them right side up cuz once they're installed, if you install them upside down, you're going to have to cut the fasteners off again and reinstall them correctly. So, the shutters go in. The arch side is up first. The flat side is goes on the bottom. We've got our shutters. We've labeled them. Put tape on the back with an arrow pointing up. So, it's a reminder to us how they're installed. We've actually preainted the these shutters. We didn't paint them. They're stock white and the the easy lock fasteners were kind of a light tan color. So, we put them on a cardboard and prepainted them. And then when you're hammering them, if they get scratched at all, you can just touch them up. If you're installing the shutters for the first time, you're going to have to drill uh new original holes. These shutters were already installed, so we removed them. So, we already got pre-drilled drill pre-rilled holes that will re be in reinstalling the shutters on. that we're going through the installation process and putting the shutters on. Just using a hammer, you're just going to tap them in. You want to make sure you tap them in lightly and don't over hammer them in, which will cause a indentation on the shutters cuz they're just plastic. So, you want them just to go flush to the shutter and you don't want it to cause the shutter to bend. If you're putting them in too tightly, the shutter will actually bend. So, just take your time. Just tap them in lightly to right before it gets flush.