Why Add Blade Stays to Your Outdoor Aluminium Shutters?

Outdoor aluminium shutters don't just make your home look classy and give you protection against the weather, they also have security benefits. Security features like locks and bolts can secure your shutters as a first line of defence against break-ins.

Adding extras, like blade stays or locks, ups the ante and also gives you better weather control. What are blade stays and why should you use them?

What Are Shutter Blade Stays?

Stays are hooked up to the blades on your shutters. When stays are unlocked, you can open and close your blades as you like on each shutter.

Once you engage a stay, the shutter's blades lock into your chosen open or closed position. You can't reposition the blades until you unlock the stay again.

Why Are Blade Stays Useful?

Blade stays have a couple of benefits you may find handy.

Security

Blade stays help make outdoor shutters more secure. While you may have locks and deadbolts installed with your shutters to prevent people using them to enter your home, these devices don't do anything to shutter blades.

If someone is trying to get through your shutters and you've locked them tight, then you might think the intruder won't have any luck getting in. However, if they can open the shutter blades from the outside, they may be able to reach in and open locks. Or, they can use the gap as leverage to break through some of the shutter's blades.

Shutter stays lock blades into position. So, if you close the blades and engage the stay, then nobody can open the blades from the outside.

Wind Management

If it gets pretty windy where you live, then high winds, or even moderate ones coming in a certain direction, can mess with your shutter blade positions. If your blades are closed, then the wind can blow them open; if they're open, it can blow them closed.

As well as winding you up, this also prevents shutters from doing what you want them to. If you have stays on your blades, then you can fix them into your preferred position, and they'll stay there even if it gets windy.

Your blinds supplier or interior designer can tell you more about blade stays and other security features that you can add to your aluminium shutters. Some shutters come with these features as standard. In some cases, they may need to be fitted separately. 

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