News

How To Make Your Own Louvres

Sharing is caring!

Louvres are installations which are used to make doors and window shutters. They are an elegant way of providing privacy and security while allowing the entry of air on either side of the louvers. Most people will purchase louvred bi-fold doors for closets and use them as a screen for their respective dressing areas.
Most woodworkers think that making louvres is a very difficult task. What you have to do is to make use of jig in collaboration with your router, since a good router jig will simplify the process of aligning your louvres uniformly.

Designing and building a shutter for a window that is convenient for a shower enclosure is not something extremely difficult. Nevertheless, the same ideas are easily applied to any interior or exterior doors and shutters.

Building louvres which will be fitted perfectly to a particular installation requires you to abide to set principles which outline the measurements and dimensions of a specific plan.

The first stage is to cut the rails and stiles for your specific set of louvres you’re in need of. Nevertheless, because every installation is different, you have to be well-informed about the certain princes prior to commencing your layout.  However, for commercial louvres – we recommend to leave it to the experts.

Every slat in the louvres is expected to cover vertical space for at least one inch. It’s recommended leaving 1/8 unused space between the top and the bottom slats and the adjacent rails. You have to be very careful otherwise your louvres may end up being inconvenient because you messed up the intervals.

Once you’ve identified the measurements of the door, window shutter or any other installation, you will be in a position to discover the dimensions of the rails and tiles in terms of length and width. Try to make the right approximation the broadening of every rails and stile should be ripped in order to guarantee the integrity of the whole unit.