Energy Efficient Shutters

In a world where efficiencies are everywhere, why shouldn’t your shutters match the standard? Alumacore has an R-score of 5.9, which is nearly triple; the R-score of a wood shutter is 2.0. In the above picture we have simulated an extreme heat situation to showcase how great of an insulator our shutter truly is. The room temperature was set to 76 degrees for a stable controlled environment. We applied a heat gun to the shutter to the tune of 168 degrees for several minutes. On the other side of the shutter, we reported a temperature of 78.4 degrees. The results? Only an increase of 2.4 degrees on the shutter, stopping the heat at the source before the increased temperature enters the room. The images were captured through a FLIR camera with their Advanced Thermal Imaging camera, which shows the temperatures of the area in the picture. We do understand this is an extreme situation we simulated, however we wanted to prove how efficient our shutter really is. The best results are yielded from a completely closed shutter, which traps the warm air between the window and the shutter to prevent a majority of the warm air to enter your home.