Let's talk decorative shutters. No way is it just nailing 2x4s together, paint them, slap them on a window, and then charging rich boomers and clueless millennials loads of cash for the pleasure. What's the catch?
Redpill me on starting your own business
Decorative shutters are moronic if they're not sized appropriately so that they could theoretically cover the window like actual shutters.
A friend's mountain house had real shutters and it's absurdly kino
Agreed to an extent. But bare windows look like ass. Anything on both sides is better than nothing. Honestly, if a homeowner wants to pay me for it, I'll hammer dogshit to the trim of the window if I get paid.
>not sized appropriately so that they could theoretically cover the window like actual shutters.
If you're going to be autistic about that then you should require louvered shutters to have the slats so that they shoot water onto the house when they are open, and shed the water away from the window when they are closed. and have hinges, etc.
In reality, nobody in the USA who owns shutters like pic related has ever actually closed them. Never. Not once. At least not in the last century. I know, because I keep track of shit like that.
Is that related to weather reasons or just "cost cutting" bullshit?
I will be autistic about all things shutters
You want to find a business that caters to rich people, assuming you live in an area with wealthy folk. I own a floor restoration company and never have to deal with middle class boomers, karens or really anyone struggling with money. It's pretty great. Plan?
Figure out the demand for shutters in your area. Think of a variety of items/solutions that fully utilize your skills in wood/carpentry and the tools you'll need to make shutters. Hint, buy a Muskoka chair, disassemble it, make templates, make them trendy and sell them for a butt load. Add political or millennial nostalgia themes, you'll make a killing. You can buy all kinds of things, template them and then return them. Birdhouses, side tables, decorative lanterns etc.
Gl anon.
Just outside Denver near Boulder. Shit load of wealth out here.
Planning on building custom wood shutters and installing them. I've made a couple of custom shutter sets before and they aren't real difficult. Just purely decorative, I don't want to fiddle with making them functional. I figure I can build and paint them in my garage after work during the week, and then install them on the weekends. Allows me to maintain steady income, and keep my health insurance for when I inevitably fall off a ladder.
I've never hung anything on vinyl siding though, so that makes me a little uneasy. Wood and brick is easy, but not sure on vinyl. I always worry about worst case scenario of say, my shutters getting blown off in a wind storm and taking the whole vinyl siding with it. Or water proofing the installation and water leaking in through the hardware, trashing the sheathing.
This is what insurance is for. If you are mounting to siding remember you're screwing through the siding and hitting the lumber underneath, not going to make it rip off.
So this should all be above board and legal. Got it.
If you are installing them, I’d say yes. If you just want to sell them then meh.
pretty much anon, to be safe don't just bury a screw, pre tap you wholes with a bit
>Add political or millennial nostalgia themes, you'll make a killing.
I would pay good money for a SNES-themed adirondack chair
That's literally all carpentry is
t. carpenter
>What's the catch?
None. Only other thing of pay for is insurance. You will inevitably frick up and put an extension ladder through a window or something. And the same israelites and adjacent-goyim who ate willing to throw thousands of fedcoin at you for painted offcuts are also VERY sue-happy.
whatever the service is, having your shit dialed in from a the admin/operations side is what will make you crush everyone else. If you have good comms, set proper expectations and do things correctly you can go far, and ditch all the shit head clients
build up a catalog of styles and offer custom sizes. You could also link up with local lumber yards and have them offer your product line, keeping you from installing and letting you focus on production. Could expand into gable vents too
Get ready to hear this phrase about 5 to 6 times a day over the phone:
"Good morning sirs, I'm with Google for Google My Business and wanted to know how you are receiving calls sirs?
Don't start it
I've had this idea, the angle would be to sell heavy "security" shutters to fearful bougie folks. Make them functional and rig a mechanism similar to casement windows so you can shut them from the inside. None of them want to lean out like some mary in oklahoma before a dust storm. Not only look nice, but they can shut out the filthy masses at a whim.
The product is a sound idea and importantly allows rapid egress in case of fire which I'd use as a selling point.
people frick up things peripherally related to a business way more often than the thing they are in business to do.
Hoa won't allow them to change
If they don't have an HOA, they are too poor to pay for cosmetics
this is one of the most moronic things I've ever read. good bait
Its reality