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820 Traditional Sill Mount

An oft-seen approach to installing tiebacks. Sill mounts show up in the early 1800’s and were dominant through the civil war era. Usually seen with brick or stone structures, the sill mount screwed into the window sill and held the tie-backs at the bottom of the shutter – much easier than providing a hole for the tie-back mount once the structure’s complete. While this style of mount is very attractive, it’s intended to install on early construction. The early sills were often four to six inches thick and cast iron tie-backs were often associated with the still mounts – thus the upward radius on the end of the sill arm. It was necessary to compensate for the thickness of the shutter and the stubby tie-back. We recommend this mount for historic restorations and require a dimensioned drawing of your sills and shutters – why? Because a radius sill mount rarely works in contemporary construction. The radius end pushes the tieback too close to the bottom of the shutter – which means you won’t be able to swing the shutters past the tie-back.

821 Contemporary Sill Mount

Our solution to the too-high tieback problem with the early sill mount. The straight arm is ¾” high and easily mounts to the narrower contemporary sill. With the sill arm and tie-back mounting position parallel with the bottom of the shutter sufficient room is provided between the bottom of the shutter and the tie-back for clearance as the shutter is swung from the open position past the tieback. Our standard sill arm is designed to position 3” of the mount on the sill and position the tie-back at ten or fourteen inches from the edge of the sill.

822 Plate Mount

This style of tie-back mount is very prominently exhibited at Colonial Williamsburg. It was typically seen on structures of clapboard construction. Our plate mounts are fabricated of plate steel and exhibit our standard 1 ¾” stand-off from the structure. Other dimensions are available, or you can modify the elements during installation to customize the fit between shutter and structure.

826 Drive Mount

This one is for the purist. They didn’t have lag screws much before the late 1800’s, so most early tie-backs were riveted to their mount. Here we provide a ½” x ¼” post of five inch overall length. One end is tapered as was often seen on early examples while the other end of the rectangular bar is forged down to a round. The round portion fits through a hole in the tie-back and is heated red-hot then hammered to produce a “rivet head” on the mount – it can’t be removed from the tie-back. The result is an installed tie-back that’s indistinguishable from the originals.

825 Dummy Mount

Another Brandywine Forge exclusive. Our “dummy mounts” are unique and designed specifically for non-functional shutters…. Why drill holes in the building to mount tie-backs that don’t really hold the shutters open? “Dummies” allow any of our tiebacks to easily fasten onto the shutter that’s already mounted to the home. They can be positioned to allow any tie-back to mount on the bottom or side of any non-functional shutter – wood or plastic.