Shutter BoysCalifornia shutters in Fort Erie
Homes in Fort Erie
Fort Erie is a city of houses: of its 14,080 occupied homes, 83% are detached, 5% are semi-detached and row houses and 13% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
More homes here were built 1960 or earlier than in any later period we count: 39%. Only 19% date from 2001 or later. Owners live in 80% of homes.
In nearby Port Colborne, 14 km away, 80% of homes were built in 1980 or earlier, so Fort Erie's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Fort Erie's homes are older than those in 86% 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.
Plaster walls and deep casings
39% of homes date from 1960 or earlier, when walls were plaster on lath and windows sat in deep wood casings. Plaster cracks if you drive screws carelessly: drill a pilot hole, use fixings made for plaster, and fix into the casing or the framing behind it. A deep casing is good news for an inside mount; measure its depth before you choose a louver size.
Out-of-square openings
With 62% of homes built in 1980 or earlier, many openings have had decades to settle. Measure each one's width at the top, middle and bottom, and both diagonals. If the diagonals differ by more than about 6 mm, add a mounting frame in the designer, or choose an outside mount so the shutter covers the uneven edges.
Whole-house orders
With 83% 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.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 80% 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.
Fort Erie weather and your shutters
At Fort Erie (6 km away), July averages a high of 26 °C and January a low of −7.5 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from December to March.
1,056 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Daylight runs from 15 h 21 min on the longest day to 9 h 1 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 71° above the horizon in June and 24° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Fort Erie. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 0.1 °C | −7.5 °C | 91.2 mm |
| Feb | 1.2 °C | −7.5 °C | 56.6 mm |
| Mar | 5 °C | −4.1 °C | 75.2 mm |
| Apr | 11.7 °C | 1.3 °C | 81.6 mm |
| May | 18.9 °C | 7.8 °C | 90.7 mm |
| Jun | 23.7 °C | 13.4 °C | 71.1 mm |
| Jul | 26 °C | 16.2 °C | 89.4 mm |
| Aug | 25.9 °C | 15.9 °C | 88.7 mm |
| Sep | 22.4 °C | 12.2 °C | 113.9 mm |
| Oct | 15.5 °C | 6.5 °C | 96.2 mm |
| Nov | 9.1 °C | 1.3 °C | 102.7 mm |
| Dec | 2.9 °C | −4.1 °C | 98.9 mm |
A mild year
Few days here are very hot or very cold, so louvers spend most of the year on everyday work: angling daylight off the TV, giving privacy from the street, and opening wide on a fine morning. That makes louver size more a matter of view than of shade; bigger louvers leave more open glass.
Fitting them in Fort Erie
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.
Near Fort Erie
- Port Colborne 14 km
- Niagara Falls 17 km
- Welland 18 km
- Thorold 23 km
- St. Catharines 33 km
- Lincoln 41 km
More about shutters in Fort Erie
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Fort Erie’s own figures.
Price your windows
Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.