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Homes in Sault Ste. Marie
Sault Ste. Marie is a city of houses: of its 32,530 occupied homes, 65% are detached, 9% are semi-detached and row houses and 26% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The biggest building period was 1961 to 1980, which accounts for 41% of homes standing today; 8% are from 2001 or later. 68% of homes are lived in by their owners.
Of the 89 Ontario cities we have census figures for, Sault Ste. Marie has the second-highest share of older homes. Nationally, Sault Ste. Marie's homes are older than in any other 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
34% 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 75% 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.
Replacement windows
41% of homes went up between 1961 and 1980, and most of them have had their original windows replaced since. A replacement window often sits further into or out of the wall than the old one, so the depth you have for an inside mount may differ from window to window in the same house. Measure every opening rather than copying one.
Whole-house orders
With 65% 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 Sault Ste. Marie
The most common home in Sault Ste. Marie has three bedrooms: 43% of homes. 20% have four bedrooms or more, and 13% 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 1.7% of the median home value here, $250,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Homes here are smaller than in 88% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for: many orders are a few rooms, not a whole house.
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 windowsOne room at a time
Homes here cost less than in 96% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for, and many owners do a house in stages. Start with the rooms where light and privacy matter most, usually bedrooms and the street-facing front, and keep the same louver size and colour so later rooms match. Your saved design keeps every size.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Sault Ste. Marie weather and your shutters
At Sault Ste Marie (15 km away), July averages a high of 24.2 °C and February a low of −14.7 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from November to April.
About 5 days a year top 30 °C, 175 days drop to 0 °C or below and 915 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more days at or below freezing than in 78% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 50 min on the longest day to 8 h 34 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 67° above the horizon in June and 20° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Sault Ste Marie. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −5 °C | −14.5 °C | 65.1 mm |
| Feb | −4 °C | −14.7 °C | 45.6 mm |
| Mar | 1.4 °C | −9.6 °C | 52.3 mm |
| Apr | 8.7 °C | −2 °C | 71 mm |
| May | 16.2 °C | 3.5 °C | 68.6 mm |
| Jun | 21.8 °C | 8.5 °C | 79.3 mm |
| Jul | 24.2 °C | 11.6 °C | 76.9 mm |
| Aug | 23.7 °C | 11.5 °C | 77.9 mm |
| Sep | 19.4 °C | 8 °C | 108.6 mm |
| Oct | 11.7 °C | 2.7 °C | 110.5 mm |
| Nov | 4.8 °C | −2.5 °C | 89 mm |
| Dec | −1 °C | −8.6 °C | 69.9 mm |
Cold winters
With 175 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 Sault Ste. Marie
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 Sault Ste. Marie
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Sault Ste. Marie’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Sault Ste. Marie
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Sault Ste. Marie 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.