ChrisA Edwards
08-21-2019, 11:44 PM
We moved into our TN house a couple of years ago, the wife wanted Plantation Shutters on many of the windows. I saw this as an opportunity to buy some new tools and so I started late 2017. We'd had Plantation Shutters installed on our Dallas house and that averaged out around $1000 per window.
I haven't kept a super accurate tally of my expenses, but I figure I'm at around $6000, but that includes buying $3200 worth of machines.
I'm retired, so my time doesn't count.
I used the Rockler Shutter System, buying most of the shutter hardware and their jigs for the Louver spacing and pin drilling.
I bought two truck bed fulls or 5/4 rough sawn Basswood, about $900.
My Dewalt 735 did most of the rough planing, before I broke down and bought a Hammer A3-31 when most of the planing was finished. I didn't figure that into the shutter cost as I pretty much didn't use it for this project.
I had about 60 mortise slots to cut, 1/2"w x 2" deep, so I bought a Powermatic PM719. This was one of the easiest tools to set up use.
For the Louvers, I needed 243 around 31" in length, so I bought a ShopFox W1812.
The wife wanted them painted white to match the existing trim, so I built a temporary spray booth in my garage. I initially bought an Apollo Turbine 5 HVLP spray gun, but I had minimal success so I tried a Graco Magnum X5 Airless sprayer, which I'd bought a couple of years earlier, and that worked perfectly.
This past week I hung 14 shuttesr in 11 windows and didn't have to modify anything for fit.
The wife is happy, now she's tasked me with doing 15 more windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w5ededWDHI
I haven't kept a super accurate tally of my expenses, but I figure I'm at around $6000, but that includes buying $3200 worth of machines.
I'm retired, so my time doesn't count.
I used the Rockler Shutter System, buying most of the shutter hardware and their jigs for the Louver spacing and pin drilling.
I bought two truck bed fulls or 5/4 rough sawn Basswood, about $900.
My Dewalt 735 did most of the rough planing, before I broke down and bought a Hammer A3-31 when most of the planing was finished. I didn't figure that into the shutter cost as I pretty much didn't use it for this project.
I had about 60 mortise slots to cut, 1/2"w x 2" deep, so I bought a Powermatic PM719. This was one of the easiest tools to set up use.
For the Louvers, I needed 243 around 31" in length, so I bought a ShopFox W1812.
The wife wanted them painted white to match the existing trim, so I built a temporary spray booth in my garage. I initially bought an Apollo Turbine 5 HVLP spray gun, but I had minimal success so I tried a Graco Magnum X5 Airless sprayer, which I'd bought a couple of years earlier, and that worked perfectly.
This past week I hung 14 shuttesr in 11 windows and didn't have to modify anything for fit.
The wife is happy, now she's tasked me with doing 15 more windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w5ededWDHI