Guides for Choosing Well
Everything we'd want you to know before a salesperson sits at your kitchen bench, ours included. Long reads, honest trade-offs, no urgency. Read what your window needs and skip the rest.
Choosing
Timber, PVC or aluminium: the room decides
The flagship. Every room in a Newcastle home, and the material each one actually wants.
Louvre widths, honestly explained
63, 89 or 114 millimetres, and what each does to light, view and cleaning day.
Front tilt or hidden tilt
The one visible mechanism on a shutter, and how the age of your house should call it.
Heritage home shutters in Newcastle
The terrace styling essay: patterns that respect a period frontage, and the ones that quietly don't.
Comparing
Shutters vs blinds: lifespan and durability
An honest scorecard from a guide that recommends both, depending on the window.
Do shutters actually save energy?
What window coverings genuinely do for heat and cold, with the government sources rather than a made-up percentage.
When a blind beats a shutter
Rollers, romans and venetians, and the windows where they're honestly the better call.
Awnings: shade outside the glass
Why heat is best stopped before the window, and where an awning belongs alongside shutters.
Doing
How to measure your windows
The honest self-measure: enough to plan and budget, and why the factory only ever cuts to the professional visit's numbers.
Sticking shutters: causes and fixes
The ten-minute screwdriver fixes, the salt-air special, and the faults worth a call instead.
What are shutters? The primer
The vocabulary page: every term a quote will use, defined once in plain English.
Window security grilles, plainly
What grilles do that shutters don't, and how to fold them into the same project sensibly.
Every good fit-out starts with a measure
Tell us about your windows and the rooms behind them. A local provider working with us will arrange a free in-home measure, talk through materials and louvre sizes on the spot, and quote the job properly. Every window is made to measure, so the quote comes after the tape, not before.
We don't publish a phone number. The form is our front door, and it means your details go straight to the people who will actually measure your windows.