Installation Situations > Window (or Door) Location

Two conditions can exist on any building:

A “flush” installation is pretty straight forward, the shutters just have to open and close like a door.

If the windows are recessed more variables come into play. The shutters must lay parallel to both the window and face of the building – that’s a rule. Therefore, you must consider the distance the shutter moves away from the face of the window to reach a position parallel to the face of the building – I refer to this distance as “ offset” and you’ll see the term often when looking at shutter hardware. Another consideration with recessed windows is the width of the window casing. As the shutters swing from closed to open there is a left-to-right movement of the shutter – I refer to this movement as “ throw”. The throw is built into the hardware and cannot exceed the width of the window casing, otherwise an offset hinge will hit the corner of the structure before the shutter can lay fully against the structure in the open position.