Why choose cedar?
Exceptional outdoor performance and resistance to rot and decay.
Paintable and stainable
Stained cedar shutters reflect the natural unique beauty of grain and knots
Smooth or rough-sawn finish
Natural material
Problems with other materials:
Pine is a common shutter material. Builders often install pine shutters on new homes to give the appearance of quality and authenticity. While pine shutters may look good for 5-15 years, a large percentage succumb to rot and decay. We have replaced thousands of rotten pine shutters over the years.
Composite shutters are comprised of manmade material. Most composites are a combination of a wood byproduct such as sawdust mixed with a resin. MDF is a composite material. Composite shutters are extremely heavy often requiring more hardware at extra expense and create additional stresses on the window trim. We have replaced over a thousand failed composite shutters over the years. Some have failed due to extreme warping and others have failed due to moisture causing swelling.
Rot occurring in a non-cedar wood.
This is a severely warped composite shutter that we replaced. The warping stresses pulled some hardware out of the window trim.
Failed composite shutter removed from a customer’s house. Moisture infiltrated the joints and caused swelling of the material and failure.