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Finishing the Front Porch and Installing Custom Pine Exterior Shutters
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Finishing the Front Porch and Installing Custom Pine Exterior Shutters
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" There's still a little bit of carpentry left on the porch, right Riley?"
" Yes, most of it's already been done. We've got our lattice work in place, the railings have already been put on. There's just one piece left to do"
" Okay"
" And then we've got the ceilings you have to do with them, we're just gonna use 4 x 8 sheets of plywood and put some battens over the seams and that'll take care of that."
" So that'll be a completely trimmed out porch. I noticed we got pressure treated lumber on the crown moldings' out here on the outside part of the porch."
" Yeah, that's what they use down here, is the pressure treated."
" What about this, the piers, these are made out of concrete block but you got 'em stuck on up already, huh?"
" We've got a pre-finished tackle system Bob, you just curl it on and that's it"
" It's not sprayed on, it's troweled"
" Troweled on, 3 coats"
" You did a good job, it looks very, very neat. Charleston Green has a lot of black in it, these are nice shutters form Withers Custom Shutters, Pat and Randy Withers, how're you doing guys?"
" Hi, how are you?"
" Great, great"
" Now, these are all custom as the name implies and you start with Southern Yellow Pine, right?"
" Correct"
" Is it pressure treated? Is that what gives it this color? Yes sir, this is a pressure treated yellow pine and the pressure treatment penetrates all the way down to the hardwood. You see these are hardwood levers here and"
" They didn't get as much penetration, that's why the color is different, but these are made individual slats in each place but they are not operable but they are meant for exterior use. They are operable from the point of view of shutting them down against a storm, right?"
" Yes, that's right , yes"
" Excellent, excellent, and they are so sturdy, that's what I like about 'em."
" Let's talk about how they get installed because the key is to have really good sturdy hardware, right?"
" What have you got over here?"
" These are the shutter dogs, when the panel is open, will hold the panel back against the wall and you can see they're also kind of an ornamental"
" They're beautiful, they're cast iron and so they're nice and sturdy"
" Yeah"
" And these are what they call dogs, right?"
" Yes"
" And if you go to your average hardware store to find something, you'll get something, you'll get something pretty flimsy."
" And then what about the hinges themselves?"
" This is a stamped wrought steel hands with a zinc treatment and they come in a variety of offsets and depths, depending on your application for your home"
" Well, the idea with your shutters, the exterior ones at least is that they should work in a storm, you can close them up if you go on vacation and you can do it from the inside, right?"
" Absolutely. They're fully functional and this is the slide bolt and all the fits as these are as you see when we put them up, historically correct. The rail of the shutter is below the lock rail of the window, so when you open the window, there's plenty of room to activate your slide bolt."
" Let's see you install them."
" Sure."
" We've already got our markings for our hinges. We place the shutter in like so."
" And you're putting it on a little quarter inch slat of wood for the spacing."
" Right, right, and we've got some marks here where we're gonna make our first drill for our screws and then the shutter will come out. We'll go ahead and drill into the shutter, we've made the marks."
" that right?"
" Yeah."
