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5 Reasons to Choose Rollshutters

Security

Allied rollshutters manually controlled and automated shutter systems offer a superb safeguard to windows and entrances. The benefits of rollshutters are enormous. Protecting windows from breakage from wind and hurricane storms, they are beneficial in protecting homes and business from vandalism in riots, home invasions, intrusions into patio doors and basement windows. Rollshutters are excellent choice in securing windows and doors in cottage homes, holiday getaways.  With no outside locks to pick, rollshutters can only be controlled from the inside or electronically; intruders have no choice but to try no shutter openings.  With automated systems, one touch activates all the shutters on a house or place of business. Timers can be set raise and lower the shutters when no one is around.  Keyed and digital switches are available tooperate the shutters from the outside.  (A manual override is available for emergencies.)  The entire shutter system can be integrated into an alarm system.  Our shutters meet today’s growing array of security needs.

Durability

Our shutters are designed to withstand 140 mile-per-hour winds, the same winds that pounded the South Florida coast during Hurricane Andrew.  Our slats are thicker, double walled and filled with high-density polyurethane for better insulation and security.  Our aluminum extruded shutters are extruded in the 6063 aluminum and heat treated for hardness, exceptional standards required for the security minded consumer.

Versatility

All rollshutters are customized to fit many doors, windows, skylights and sunrooms.  They are easy to install onto existing homes and buildings, old and new.  Rollshutters are installed in custom cabinet for storage, drinking bars, cigarette cabinets, display kiosks, and room dividers, service counters.  In many instances, shutters are added to provide the security and durability customers are looking for in a window treatment system.  In choosing a rollshutter, the benefits of added security, increased protection from wind, rain, heat and damage from ultra violet rays onto furniture and household interiors have convinced many to purchase rollshutters for their homes.  Rollshutters have the added benefit of saving money in heating and electrical bills.  Rollshutters provide excellent insulation from exposure to ultraviolet light and direct sunlight.  A direct comparison can be made by measuring the room temperature of a room installed with a rollshutter and the outside temperature.  The same comparison can be made in measuring noise level inside and outside of room that is constantly being bombarded by a noisy environment.

Privacy and Comfort

Noise levels can be reduced by up to 70% - ideal for muffling the noise from street traffic, patio parties, lawn mowers, airport traffic, traveling rail cars.  When the shutters are closed, they block out light. This is excellent for late risers, afternoon nappers, night shift workers, conference rooms, and expensive home theater movie rooms.  Small slits in each slat of the shutters provide light and air without sacrificing security. Shutters also protect interior furnishings against sun fading and reduce air conditioning and heating costs.  Insulating shutters reduce heating and cooling costs by increasing the home’s energy efficiency. The provide added insulation by creating a barrier of dead air space, similar to a storm window.  In hot weather, cool air is retained; in cold weather, the warm air is locked in.   In fact, shutters improve your home’s insulation factor by as much as 63%, reducing your heating and cooling costs day after day…overtime with the money saved, the shutters will pay for themselves.  You can realize valuable savings in energy cost year round, as well as blocking out unwanted exterior noise.

Aesthetics

Rollshutters are an excellent alternative to security bars and ugly screen meshes. The standard security bars have an immediate effect of creating a psychological image of being imprisoned.  Homeowners tend to feel imprisoned in their own home because bars create an image of a jail. Homes installed with bars, invite further intrusions to the house, as this indicates more valuable belongings may have been vandalized.  In businesses, bars provide the negative effect of a store that has been vandalized or broken into.  Effectively, the windows that were normally designated for advertising and displaying the latest fashions have been hindered. Rollshutters have the added benefit of being hidden when not in use.  Rolled into its rollshutter housing, the shutters are unnoticeable. Protecting the windows from crime or forces of nature the rollshutters rolls elegantly into its sidetracks, secured, it provides comfort and security.

 

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