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Cleveland Couple Great at DIY Shutters Installations

Added: May 02, 2008

Mary & James from Cleveland had seen photos of shutters in various magazines and thought they'd be just the solution for her windows. They'd considered the usual window coverings of long curtains, tie backs and wooden blinds but decided that plantation shutters were just the answer.

They went about finding The California Shutter & Blind Company through looking on the internet and comparing different prices from shutter companies they found. There was no obvious shutters specialist in Cleveland to install shutters and local blinds shops did not seem too knowledgable about shutters. We felt much more comfortable about ordering our shutters from the California company even although we'd have to undertake the installation of our shutters ourselves.

When looking around the internet, when we started adding on the cost of installation for our shutters that other companies were advertising, the cost became very expensive.

Reading over the information provided on your website, measuring the windows was easy. We did contact The California Company on the phone and the advice and suggestions we were given was extremely helpful. What I was particularly impressed with was that even after placing the shutter order online I was still able to make a change to the number of shutter panels on my order without any problem.

My wife is over the moon! seriously though there seems to be more space in the room, less clutter, the whole window is neater and they do deter break-in by thieves.

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We asked James if he could pass on any tips to future customers when buying their shutters.......

Can you give any future customers any advice on 'do's and don'ts'?

The most important items to check are the actual window opening (the reveal) for variation in the width. drop and degree of plumb, there is no wall in any house that is perfectly true. Take multiple carefull measurements of all dimensions before commiting to order, the actual shutters are exactly to the specified size.

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