Inside Shutter Louvre Blade Tilting Options

What tilting options are there? Well, back in the beginning of internal shutters being a window covering concept rather than traditional curtains or roller blinds, plantation shutters used mainly one mechanism for opening and closing the louvre blades for light and air flow. A central rod attached to each blade, to act as a handle to gently open and close them was the design of the time.
As we know with most things, technology, design and savvy thinking helps change things over time and shutters are no different.
Offsetting the tilt rod mechanism to one side became popular to add an unobtrusive view through the shutter blades. They are usually requested to be either to the left or right of the shutter as you look at the front of the shutter, for example 40mm in from the edge of the blades rather than the centre. This type of tilting is available on our PVC Shutters and Painted Timber Shutters & Stained Shutters.
As fashion changed even further, at a guess in the late 1990's a modern take on these became fashionable and has become the most popular by far. The 'clearview' look. While a variation of what it is today was available, it was a more specialised request, now days it's an everyday choice.
Clearview rotation is a bar with appropriate spacings that attaches to the edge of each shutter blade. For inside plantation shutters such as timber, PVC or aluminium shutters it is usually installed so that you can't see it from inside the room. It runs down the back of the shutter against the window side giving you that clear view. Once installed, you grab one louvre blade to tilt them all as they are all interconnected. The blades always close in an upward direction.
** But wait there's a new kid on the block!** Introducing the Hidden Tilt. It's an internal mechanism in the stile (the vertical part of a shutter) that collectively moves the louvre blades. Similar to the clearview option, it provides effortless adjustment by simply grasping and tilting one blade to move them all to the preferred position with no visible rotating arm at all. A very sleek look. It's available for our standard timber shutters for the most popular 89mm blade size. (some size limits and restrictions may apply)

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