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Homes in Peterborough
Peterborough's 35,975 occupied homes are a mix: 57% detached houses, 32% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 11% semi-detached and row houses.
More homes here were built 1960 or earlier than in any later period we count: 36%. Only 15% date from 2001 or later. 59% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Cobourg, 40 km away, 52% of homes were built in 1980 or earlier, so Peterborough's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Peterborough's homes are older than those in 89% 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
36% 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 64% 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.
A whole house in Peterborough
The most common home in Peterborough has three bedrooms: 34% of homes. 26% have four bedrooms or more, and 14% have one or none. Homes average 6.3 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 0.8% of the median home value here, $500,000 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 windowsPeterborough weather and your shutters
At Peterborough (8 km away), July averages a high of 26.6 °C and January a low of −12.8 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from November to April.
About 10 days a year top 30 °C, 169 days drop to 0 °C or below and 840 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more days at or below freezing than in 73% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 32 min on the longest day to 8 h 51 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 69° above the horizon in June and 22° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Peterborough. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −2.6 °C | −12.8 °C | 66.5 mm |
| Feb | −1.8 °C | −12.8 °C | 42.3 mm |
| Mar | 4.1 °C | −7.1 °C | 53.6 mm |
| Apr | 11.6 °C | −0.3 °C | 72.7 mm |
| May | 19.3 °C | 5.6 °C | 79.4 mm |
| Jun | 24 °C | 10.7 °C | 87.8 mm |
| Jul | 26.6 °C | 12.8 °C | 69.1 mm |
| Aug | 25.5 °C | 11.7 °C | 77.6 mm |
| Sep | 21.4 °C | 7.3 °C | 75.7 mm |
| Oct | 13.9 °C | 2 °C | 74.7 mm |
| Nov | 6.6 °C | −2.9 °C | 76.3 mm |
| Dec | 0.4 °C | −8.3 °C | 64.1 mm |
Cold winters
With 169 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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
- Cobourg 40 km
- Clarington 44 km
- Scugog 50 km
- Kawartha Lakes 51 km
- Quinte West 61 km
- Oshawa 61 km
More about shutters in Peterborough
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Peterborough’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Peterborough
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Peterborough 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.