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   Guest_ | Sep 06, 2000 11:28pm | #1

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   Probably the same company that made the gold insignia package for the Yugo ...

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   Guest_ | Sep 06, 2000 11:46pm | #2

   *Dan, don't get the wrong idea. Jeff's post would be what is called "a good one".Sorry, don't know of any.

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   Guest_ | Sep 07, 2000 12:02am | #3

   *Dan - Calvin's trying to take the edge off my point which is that you've i alreadygot the wrong idea. My point, with hopefully some humor, is that you seem to be looking for a nice period-appropriate hardware combination (hinges, pintles and dogs) pre-combined with fake plastic shutters. Reconsider. Not even wood shutters come as "a set" with hardware - it's all ordered separately although you can get most of the wood shutter companies to prime/paint if you like their prep/paint job.At what point do we just give up and fake it all? How about injection-molded fake wood-grain houses? Right around the corner.As always, objecting to the plastification of our buildings ... Jeff

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   Guest_ | Sep 07, 2000 02:47am | #4

   *Jeff said: "As always, objecting to the plastification of our buildings..."Well put, Jeff.[It's going to be interesting to see how long the McMansions last - decades down the road from now.]We just re-installed the original wood shutters on our 1904 home, complete with [reproduction] hardware and hinges and you wouldn't believe what a difference it made!Plus, we just close the shutters to clean behind them and when we're in a mood to be cloistered. IMHO, vinyl is for lawn furniture, not houses. Rose

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   Guest_ | Sep 07, 2000 03:12am | #5

   *Taking it a step further, the plastic shutters I've seen have the slats sloped the wrong way... The slats in a true shutter should slope downwards when the shutter is closed, not when it is in the open position.Besides looking cheap, plastic shuttes come in only a couple of widths, and cannot always be sized to match the width of the window. Nothing, of course, looks much worse than a couple of 15" shutters flanking a 5' wide picture window, except I once saw shutters mounted to the wall of a home on each side of a bay window.There's some handsome hand-wrought shutter hardware here at Colonial Williamsburg, and I think you can find some through restoration catalogs.Good luck (and the handsome wooden shutters you're now gonna buy will last through the decades with some reasonable maintenance effort) Steve

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   Guest_ | Sep 07, 2000 03:26am | #6

   *Dan, operative question... operative?Are you looking for a operational vinyl shutter? If so, outta luck Dude. It would need to be of solid construction.Decorative Only? I don't think they've gone to that detail level with the vinyl shutter process yet.See above for worthwhile advice.

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   Guest_ | Sep 07, 2000 04:50am | #7

   *How the hell do you mortise a hinge into a plastic shutter?Ed. Williams

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   Guest_ | Sep 07, 2000 03:37pm | #9

   *Gee, Rose, I thought teak was for lawn furniture ... :) Jeff

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   Dan_Boyle | Sep 07, 2000 03:37pm | #8

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   Does anybody know who manufactures vinyl ext. shutters that come with hinges and holdbacks (shutterdogs)? I'd appreciate any help.