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Comment on Italian Rustic- Tuscan Style Shutters by Stephen Wade

Stephen Wade — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:38:12 +0000

Absolutely beautiful!

Comment on Plantation Shutters in Architectural Shapes by heather

heather — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:53:25 +0000

Yes, the louvers are actually curved. We have to start with a pretty signifigant piece of wood to arrive at that finished shape.

Comment on Plantation Shutters in Architectural Shapes by heather

heather — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:50:51 +0000

Greg, we do offer shutters made from reclaimed woods, such as wormy chestnut and old growth pine. These shutters are definetly enviornmentally friendly.

Comment on Plantation Shutters in Architectural Shapes by Greg Castillo

Greg Castillo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:52:55 +0000

Hi. I’m a writer living in Los Angeles and I’m covering the green home improvement arena. I wanted to know if your shutters are environmentally friendly so that I might write about them on my blog.

Comment on Plantation Shutters in Architectural Shapes by Stephen Wade

Stephen Wade — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:09:04 +0000

Wow! Does that bay window really have curved shutter panels? Are the louvers curved also? I’ve seen frames curved with straight panels, but never a complete operable bowed shutter! Impressive!

Comment on Kirtz Shutter Craftsmanship; what a quality finish adds to your custom shutter by heather

heather — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:20:14 +0000

The primer we apply is a water borne primer, but all our finish coats of paint and all our stains are still a laquer finish. Humidity is a concern with for us in OK, and I imagine for you too in Dallas, and water based finish coats don’t seem to dry as quickly, especially in the summer months. We are constantly researching products to try and improve our process, and we are able to recycle some too. We also use Sherwin Williams (not sure what program) and it is working out well. All our colors are custom mixed at the factory, since custom matching is a huge part of our work.

We try to be flexible to customers needs. Right now I have a job going through and it will be finished with the customer custom mix latex enamel per his request.

Comment on Kirtz Shutter Craftsmanship; what a quality finish adds to your custom shutter by Stephen Wade

Stephen Wade — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:38:33 +0000

Have you guys sprayed water based paint before? How do you like it compared to lacquer or oil?

We shoot all three, but are trying to move completely to Sherwin Williams’ ChemAqua program. It’s eco-friendly advantages aside, we mix it in our factory and recycle all the left overs.

Comment on Kirtz Shutter Craftmanship; Making the parts makes the difference for your custom shutters by heather

heather — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:46:11 +0000

Not sure what the name of the company was, I just thought I remembered Doug telling me a few years ago that his components came from Houston, and that his supplier brought in massive containers of wood from somewhere outside the US (I thought it was Mexico). I apologize if I got that wrong.

Do you bring in your components primed or do you guys do that yourselves??

Comment on Kirtz Shutter Craftmanship; assembling a quality custom shutter by heather

heather — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:39:10 +0000

Stephen,
We do put the glue inside the hole, and also apply some to the dowel itself. We have been doing it this way for many years and have not had an problems with the joints pulling apart. Maybe we use a smaller arount of glue that you guys were using, or the extra reinforcement of the pin nails through the backside keeps any potential expansion in check. And customers can rest assured our shutters are warrantied for a lifetime, so if a customer did experience any problems we would take care of it.