What to look for while buying Roller Shutters?

When making the decision to purchase roller shutters it is important to consider the quality of the product and service that will be offered throughout the lifespan of your roller shutter as roller shutters are permanently fixed once installed and, being custom made cannot be used elsewhere. The first thing to consider should be how responsive the company is to your calls, emails & chats and how fast you can get your quote as this will give you a good indication of how the business operates, if they are slow to react it will generally mean that they don’t have the right systems in place or they don’t care. Learn more about buying roller shutters

Why Roller Shutters are the fastest growing window covering in Australia

Roller Shutters are a growing industry, with a total of around 280,000 roller shutters sold per year across Australia and a growth rate of 8% per year, more and more people are making the decision to purchase the ultimate product in home comfort. The reason for the rapid growth is because there is no other product on the market today that offers so many benefits in one package like what roller shutters can offer. Once you install roller shutters there is no need to have an alarm system, window grilles, outside canvas awnings, internal blinds, drapes, terylene curtains and window tinting plus your air conditioner and heater will not be used as much because our window shutters keep the cold out in winter and the heat out in summer, nothing comes close.

What makes our roller shutters so special?

There are many things that put our roller shutters a notch above our competitors such as having 13 colorbond colours from which to choose from, matte smooth paint finish for shutter box and guides, security locks, shutter stops, low noise and high durability Italian motors as well as high quality Italian made roller shutter profile. Our security shutters are available in all major cities across Australia including Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart

How much do roller shutters cost?

The prices vary depending on which state and city you live in Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth have the most window roller shutter suppliers so prices are a little less, Sydney and Brisbane are less competitive so the prices are a little higher. Here at Ultimate Shutter we have focused on quality of product and service as well as cost efficiency rather than exclusively focused on cost alone like many of our competitors. As a result our roller shutters installed and wired, on average, will cost $1390, about 15% more than the average competitor's security shutters but with quality and service second to none. We believe that paying a little more to ensure that the product is as long-lasting and functional as possible is the best solution to consumers needs. We have gone to great lengths to design and engineer our security shutters to look better perform better and last longer than our competitors window roller shutters so for us we build our security shutters to meet high quality standards while our competitors build their shutters to a price.

Smart Roller Shutter buyer facts

So you're thinking of putting window shutters on your home or business because you have some issues that you want to fix or you are going to build, renovate or extend your home and you simply want to take advantage of the many benefits of our security shutters. The smart roller shutter buyer knows that you will not need to have drapes, venetians, verticals, air-conditioning, alarm, awnings because shutters will do what all of those products put together will do from just one package simply amazing. Our Roller Shutters are also available Australia wide so no matter where you are, be it Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, or Hobart we have you covered.

Are roller shutters going to solve your problems?

Our roller shutters have been used across a wide range of applications to solve many problems faced Australia-wide. These include: window protection against burglaries and vandalism, home and business climate control with benefits of 15° reduction in home and business temperature during hot Australian summer days and 15° increase during the cold and chilly winter days, reduction of unwanted outside noise by up to 85%, increased home privacy, 100% reduction in light and glare from window openings, 45% energy savings yearly, storm and hailstone protection, bushfire protection or just simply peace of mind.

28 Aug 2018

Why you need a Ultimate roller shutter. We give you 4 reasons how Ultimate roller shutters will benefit you

Insulation

Benefits of Ultimate Roller Shutters | Security Roller Shutters – With energy costs due to sky rocket, insulation is often the over looked factor in protecting your home from the escaping warmth in Winter or the harsh sun heating up the house in Summer. Some statistics suggest saving of energy up to 20%.

Whilst a roller shutter can completely blackout a window, making it ideal for shift workers, the biggest benefits is how much more efficient it can make your air conditioning and heating. Report of up to 10 degrees cooler in your home on a really hot day is not un-common. That’s even before the air-conditioning is on!

All the studies point to Insulating your home from outside of the window first, which these do. This can include insulation from noise, heat and cold. The Ultimate Aluminium Roller Shutters are ideal for insulating your home. Our roller shutters Adelaide are manufactured in Italy and the slats have a thick core of high quality insulated foam that creates a great buffer.

Security

Make no mistake; the biggest enquiry reason for roller shutters we get from people is often after they have just been robbed. It’s a horrible feeling having your home and belongings exposed to an intruder.

Ultimate Roller Shutters are as much a deterrent as anything. we won’t say thieves can’t break in, because if they really want to get in, they will find away. But if a thief is looking for a random house to break into they usually go for the easiest access. Many of our clients just get the roller shutters on the front windows that are facing the road. Others get the downstairs rooms or even just their children’s room, if they have a double storey house and they sleep upstairs.

Ultimate Roller Shutters are ideal if you travel a lot and leave your home unattended for extended periods of time. They are also ideal for holiday homes that are locked up for winter. They act as a deterrent as much as protection.

Shift Workers need complete Darkness!

Ultimate roller shutter can completely blackout a window, making it ideal for shift workers, the other advantage is the reduction in noise. Chronic Sleep deprivation has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, obesity and depression. As a shift worker, you don’t get a choice of when you have to sleep, so a good sleep (either day or night) is paramount to your health and wellbeing. Investing in all the tools that will help you sleep just makes good sense.

The latest trend now is motorisation. This allows you to control the shutter from inside your home with a remote control. No electrician expense needed. No braving the weather. No even getting out of bed. Just a push of a button and you are protected and in complete darkness.

Bush Fire Rated Roller Shutters

If you live in a bushfire-prone area you are probably already aware of BAL ratings and how they affect your potential for roller shutters. Most of our new BAL roller shutter customers are building a new home and working on permits to comply with bushfire regulations so we wanted to clear up a few misconceptions, questions and thoughts around “fireproof roller shutters.”

What is BAL?

BAL stands for Bushfire Attack Level and it describes how much heat or fire exposure a home (or shutters) can withstand. The purpose of BAL ratings is to help prevent bushfires from destroying buildings and spreading to other areas. Each BAL rating is assumed to carry the same risks as the previous rating, as well as higher risk levels.

If you are building a new home, you may need to have Basix approved BAL40 Bush Fire rated Aluminium Roller Shutters on your windows that face the bush. This appears to be standard practice now for new homes being built in bush fire prone areas.

At Ultimate Roller Shutters we can provide shutters from BAL-Low up to BAL 40. There are currently ZERO options on the market for BAL-FZ roller shutters. Our BAL 40 rated roller shutters do not have our normal foam injected insulation as it would heat and explode in a fire. Our Fire Safe Bushfire rated roller shutters and elements of its constructions were exposed to a radiant heat as severe as 40kW/m2, to simulate bushfire attack including both radiant heat and small flaming sources. Fire Safe was successful in all its performance testing. This is a specialised area of expertise in roller shutters

Speak with one of our sales team today about getting your own BAL fire shutters and remember: no roller shutters are fireproof. They’re bush fire resistant.

NEXT UP WE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO MEASURE, ORDER & INSTALL & CARE FOR YOUR ROLLER SHUTTERS…Stay tuned.