These days shutters are very competitively priced and with our Warwick Range, for example, you can get a lot of shutter for your money.

A shutter panel may look like a door or kitchen unit panel but it has to live in a totally different environment. Normally a shutter panel fixed inside a window will have to endure some quite extreme variations in heat and humidity. Quite often it may have a radiator underneath it too.

The Stratford range is made of Western Red Cedar. The timber is so durable and stable it can be left outside untreated due to its resin content. We don't have to laminate these shutters to prevent warping as cedar has a relatively straight grain and is very stable. The Worcester range is made from a timber which is sometimes called Parasol wood. It is a very light hardwood and has a laminated core similar to the Warwick Range. The timber goes through many processes before it becomes a shutter. Our engineered Warwick Range is made from a composite of many materials and is totally maintenance free whilst our cedar shutters may need re painting in 10 to 15 years time.

All but the Stratford are laminated in some way in construction, this is actually more expensive to make than solid timbers. We do this to make a better product. We can only sell cedar for these prices because although the wood is relatively expensive it is also the cheapest to make in labour and machinery terms. (Cedar is considered the very best timber for shutters as it has some unique properties although with laminating technologies other materials can produce quite different looking shutters of similar quality.)

Apart from our Oiled Stratford, all the other finishes are carefully developed to be UV resistant and long lasting. They look almost too perfect when we install them but tone down very quickly and gain character. The cedar finishes may darken slightly. We don't use regular domestic paint, if we did you would have to repaint/varnish your shutters every couple of years.