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LOUVERED DOOR & SHUTTER x WINDOW SHUTTER (LOUVERED) xx DOOR xx SHUTTER Slatted doors. Doors for cabinets or closets feature slats woven across a vertical center strip. This design provides as much air flow as louvers with a lot less work. Plantation shutters with wide louvers and a control arm that allows the louvers to open or close in unison. Details for their construction, along with a few simple jigs that make their construction precise. Tip: How to build thermal louvered shutters to close off a skylight. Four styles of exterior shutters to construct: fixed louver, hinged louvered, panelled and vertical board. Installing louver doors. Wide-louvered shutters. How to hang them yourself. Tips on choosing and installing interior wooden shutters over windows. Replace a broken pivot on a louvered shutter with a spring-mounted dowel peg. Building louvered shutters. Jigs and careful planning make quick, accurate work of a potentially tedious job. How to build louvered doors. Use this jig and a router to cut the slots for the louvers. Making louvers. Simple jig cuts the pins on the ends of individual louvers eliminating the need to insert dowels for the pins. Used in conjunction with a table saw. Use a modified wrench socket to round the tenons on louvered shutters. Antebellum shutters. How to build large shutters with movable louvers. Special jigs for drilling louver holes, tapering louvers, cutting louver tenons, and stapling are detailed. Jig for routing the slots in stiles when building fixed-louver shutters. How to paint louvers. How to build a solar screen that blocks the sun, but not the view. Fixed horizontal louvers block the late summer sun. Vertical louvers are adjustable. Tip shows how to install ordinary-size louvered shutters on basement windows by creating a false casing on the wall below the window. How to make simulated louvered shutters for the exterior of your house. Build an adjustable thermal shutter for a window. Vertical, movable louvers of insulating material are set in a wooden frame, covered with fabric and fastened in front of the window. How to restore old shutters to working order. Covers correcting sag, securing loose joints, fixing yoke and bearing pins in louvers and making a replacement louver. How to strip paint, shellac and varnish from shutters. Both solid panel and movable louver styles are covered. Repairing a broken louver in a shutter with adjustable louvers. Reconstructing window shutters and blinds, both solid panel and louver style. Tip: Use a small copper or brass tab to keep movable louvers on shutters from opening themselves up as the wind blows. Charleston shutters. A study in repair technique following hurricane Hugo. A related article looks at shutter history, hardware and maintenance tips. Tip on using a toothpick to stiffen the action of the adjustable louvers on shutters. Wooden chopsticks suggested as replacement tenons on adjustable shutter louvers. Sliding louver screen hides window but not light. Two saw blades are better than one. Using two or more table saw blades or dados to speed up such tasks as cutting louvers, rabbeting and grooving, tenoning, etc. Dowel panels form a vented cabinet door for less than the cost of louvers. Window dressing. A fast, foolproof way to install interior wood louvered window shutters. Five great router tricks. (1) Template for cutting smooth circles. (2) Making fixed-louver inserts. (3) Biscuit joinery. (4) Making simple cabinet door frames with a 3/8" rabbeting bit. (5) Jig for trimming solid-wood edge banding flush with the surface. Building louvered doors. Clever technique simplifies a tough job. Includes a router jig to cut the slots for the louvers into the stiles. Louvered doors. Router jig speeds up fabrication of fixed-louver doors or shutters for cabinets, windows, etc. Technique for making small louvered doors uses a separate insert strip in the frame to hold the slats (rather than complicated routing of individual slots). How to make plantation shutters. Installing louvers in the bottom of ordinary doors to improve ventilation and/or heat circulation. Make your own vertical slat blinds (shutters) to control light or save energy. May be constructed with larger frames than found on most movable louver shutters. Tip: How to repair movable louver shutters when the staples that "hinge" the louvers come loose. Hardboard projects. Build your own louvered doors or shutters from a louver-patterned hardboard. Tip on applying stain using a plastic pump bottle. Especially useful when staining louvers. How to make a device that fits on a palm sander and sands the slats in louvered doors. | |||||||||
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