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Homes in Strathroy-Caradoc
Strathroy-Caradoc is a city of houses: of its 9,455 occupied homes, 73% are detached, 11% are semi-detached and row houses and 14% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
Much of Strathroy-Caradoc is new: 27% of homes were built 2001 or later, and only 48% in 1980 or earlier. Owners live in 78% of homes.
In London, 25 km away, 34% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Strathroy-Caradoc's homes are older than those in 61% 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.
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.
Plaster walls and deep casings
23% 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.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 78% 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.
Out-of-square openings
With 48% 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 Strathroy-Caradoc
The most common home in Strathroy-Caradoc has three bedrooms: 41% of homes. Large houses are common too: 30% have four bedrooms or more. Homes average 7.1 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 windowsYoung children at home
5.4% of people in Strathroy-Caradoc are under five, more than in 72% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for. Shutters have no cords or chains at all: the louvers tilt with a rod or by hand, so there's nothing to hang within a child's reach. Canada has limited cord length on corded coverings since May 1, 2021; ours never had any.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Strathroy-Caradoc weather and your shutters
At Strathroy-Mullifarry (11 km away), July averages a high of 27.3 °C and January a low of −8.5 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from December to March.
About 17 days a year top 30 °C, 137 days drop to 0 °C or below and 966 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more 30 °C days than in 80% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
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, Strathroy-Mullifarry. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −1.5 °C | −8.5 °C | 80.8 mm |
| Feb | −0.4 °C | −8.3 °C | 61.7 mm |
| Mar | 5.1 °C | −3.8 °C | 66.1 mm |
| Apr | 12.7 °C | 2.1 °C | 87.7 mm |
| May | 19.9 °C | 8.2 °C | 84.4 mm |
| Jun | 25 °C | 13.5 °C | 86.2 mm |
| Jul | 27.3 °C | 15.7 °C | 77.6 mm |
| Aug | 26.2 °C | 14.8 °C | 80.8 mm |
| Sep | 22.8 °C | 11.1 °C | 87.7 mm |
| Oct | 15.3 °C | 5.8 °C | 84.1 mm |
| Nov | 7.8 °C | 0.4 °C | 89.5 mm |
| Dec | 1.5 °C | −4.7 °C | 79 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 137 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 Strathroy-Caradoc
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 Strathroy-Caradoc
- London 25 km
- St. Thomas 32 km
- Sarnia 64 km
- Stratford 68 km
- Woodstock 69 km
- Chatham-Kent 72 km
More about shutters in Strathroy-Caradoc
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Price your windows
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