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Homes in North Cowichan
North Cowichan is a city of houses: of its 13,740 occupied homes, 63% are detached, 15% are semi-detached and row houses and 18% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 32% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 43% are older than that and 25% newer. Owners live in 77% of homes.
In Nanaimo, 41 km away, 36% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, North Cowichan's homes are older than those in 51% of the 167 Canadian cities we have census figures for.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Period of construction and tenure come from the 25% sample; counts are randomly rounded.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 77% of homes, and shutters are usually bought to stay with the house. Poplar takes paint well, so they can be repainted years from now if you change a room's colours. Keep your order list: it records every size if you add a room later.
Whole-house orders
With 63% of homes detached, most orders here cover a whole house: bedrooms, a patio door, perhaps a bay. Put every window in one list in the designer so the louver size and colour match from the street.
A whole house in North Cowichan
The most common home in North Cowichan has three bedrooms: 38% of homes. 27% have four bedrooms or more, and 10% have one or none. Homes average 6.5 rooms.
Detached houses are the most common kind of home here. Across Canada, the middle home has 6 to 10 windows (NRCan, 2007). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $2,700 to $5,700 CAD. For scale, that's about 0.7% of the median home value here, $600,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (bedrooms, rooms and value from the 25% sample; counts randomly rounded); Natural Resources Canada, Survey of Household Energy Use 2007, Table 4.5a (windows). NRCan SHEU 2007, Table 4.5a
A typical home6–10 windows
All of them shuttered$2,700 to $5,700 CAD
Every window priced as a 36 × 48 in opening in our basic build (flat moulding, paint stage 1, 3½ in louvers), before tax and shipping. Your windows will differ; the designer prices each one.
Price your own windowsNorth Cowichan weather and your shutters
At Victoria (Airport) (29 km away), July averages a high of 22.7 °C and February a low of 1.4 °C. No month averages a high above 29 °C or a low below freezing.
About 2 days a year top 30 °C, 45 days drop to 0 °C or below and 901 mm of precipitation falls, most of it around January and least in July.
Daylight runs from 16 h 11 min on the longest day to 8 h 15 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 65° above the horizon in June and 18° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Victoria (Airport). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7.5 °C | 1.6 °C | 155.3 mm |
| Feb | 8.7 °C | 1.4 °C | 84.5 mm |
| Mar | 10.8 °C | 2.7 °C | 79.9 mm |
| Apr | 13.7 °C | 4.6 °C | 48.2 mm |
| May | 17.5 °C | 7.6 °C | 36.5 mm |
| Jun | 20.2 °C | 10.1 °C | 29.2 mm |
| Jul | 22.7 °C | 11.7 °C | 19.5 mm |
| Aug | 22.6 °C | 11.6 °C | 24.2 mm |
| Sep | 19.7 °C | 9.2 °C | 35.7 mm |
| Oct | 14.3 °C | 6 °C | 96.1 mm |
| Nov | 9.9 °C | 3 °C | 146 mm |
| Dec | 7.3 °C | 1.5 °C | 146.1 mm |
Fitting them in North Cowichan
Shutter Boys shutters are made for you to fit yourself: an inside or outside mount takes a drill, a level and our step-by-step guide. If you'd rather hire someone, a finish carpenter or blinds installer can fit them; ask on your quote and we'll tell you if we know one near you. You arrange and pay the installer directly.
More about shutters in North Cowichan
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using North Cowichan’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in North Cowichan
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in North Cowichan can sell or refer Shutter Boys shutters: dealers buy at trade pricing with a protected area; referral partners earn a fee on each client they send. No fee to join.
Price your windows
Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.