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Homes in Halton Hills
Halton Hills is a city of houses: of its 21,825 occupied homes, 73% are detached, 13% are semi-detached and row houses and 14% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
Much of Halton Hills is new: 28% of homes were built 2001 or later, and only 46% in 1980 or earlier. Owners live in 85% of homes.
In nearby Milton, 14 km away, 19% of homes were built in 1980 or earlier, so Halton Hills's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Halton Hills's homes are older than those in 59% 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 85% 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 73% 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.
Out-of-square openings
With 46% 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.
Plaster walls and deep casings
20% 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.
Halton Hills weather and your shutters
At Toronto Pearson (Airport) (27 km away), July averages a high of 27.4 °C and January a low of −8.9 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from December to March.
About 17 days a year top 30 °C, 131 days drop to 0 °C or below and 807 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more 30 °C days than in 82% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 26 min on the longest day to 8 h 56 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 70° above the horizon in June and 23° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Toronto Pearson (Airport). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −1.2 °C | −8.9 °C | 61.6 mm |
| Feb | −0.3 °C | −8.5 °C | 50.2 mm |
| Mar | 5 °C | −3.8 °C | 50.5 mm |
| Apr | 12 °C | 1.9 °C | 76.7 mm |
| May | 19.2 °C | 8.2 °C | 77.6 mm |
| Jun | 24.5 °C | 13.9 °C | 80.7 mm |
| Jul | 27.4 °C | 16.6 °C | 74 mm |
| Aug | 26.3 °C | 15.8 °C | 68.5 mm |
| Sep | 22.3 °C | 11.6 °C | 69.4 mm |
| Oct | 14.6 °C | 5.3 °C | 67.2 mm |
| Nov | 7.9 °C | 0.2 °C | 71.8 mm |
| Dec | 1.9 °C | −5 °C | 58.6 mm |
Summer sun
On the 17 days a year above 30 °C, closed louvers keep direct sun off the glass and out of the room. In a window that takes afternoon sun, white and light paint finishes stay cooler to the touch than dark stains.
Cold winters
With 131 days at or below freezing a year, warm room air meets cold glass for months. Shutters closed tight overnight hold that air against the window, so condensation can collect on the sill: tilt the louvers open in the morning, and wipe the sill on windows that often run wet.
Fitting them in Halton Hills
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, ask on your quote: we are building a list of independent installers across the GTA. You arrange and pay the installer directly.
More about shutters in Halton Hills
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Halton Hills’s own figures.
Talk to your rep in Halton Hills
Call the Shutter Boys GTA line, or book a free design consultation by video or phone: we go through your windows, the style and colour, and how to measure them.
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Price your windows
Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.