Pushing Window out on Frame - Cost?

Quite a bit. Not so much materials but labour time. Have to take out the mouldings, depending how the window is mounted.

Paging @Jerico

You do not need to move the window. You'll need to remove the casing trim and stepped jamb extension and replace both. Under $100 in parts but labour is the killer.

I don't know if it is normal practice to use quarter round along the window jab. One half might by vinyl in your pictures, its a little hard to tell.

You rang?

The window pictured was replaced as a retrofit, thats why the quarter round. Is this window newer than the others in your house? Or possibly older if they have all been done? You could buy yourself space by removing the quarter round and caulking around the inside. Some retros are installed that way from the get go, but quarter round inside is typically a nicer look install. I assume your shutters would hide where the 1/4 round was though.

A picture of any of the other windows in your house without this issue would help.

How thick are the shutters that they need 2 inches of depth to be installed flush with the drywall?

As Jerico points out - the quarter round is a tell-tale sign of retro-fit windows (which is too bad - means you're giving up window size and nobody improved whatever insulation is/is not between the old window frame and the building).

The quarter round which appears to be 3/4" x 3/4" in size could be removed and replaced by a different piece of trim or perhaps just a bead of caulking, and that would increase the available depth for the shutter install.

Whoever is installing these shutters should be the ones sorting this out for you. If they can't figure this out, perhaps you're dealing with the wrong shutter company.

torontotim wrote: ↑ How thick are the shutters that they need 2 inches of depth to be installed flush with the drywall?

2”

That's nutty. Thicker than a 2x4? What kind of shutters are 2 inches thick? Is it that they need depth for some sort of backing frame to hinge off of?

I've never had shutters so have no idea how they mount, but surely the shutters themselves are not thicker than all the doors in my house.

Thanks all, I’ve attached pictures of the window in question, and another window with more clearance.

I should have clarified. The issue is not with the quarter round. The issue is the louvre will hit the sliding window rail/handle. So changing the quarter round will not alleviate this issue.

The windows were changed by the previous owner. This is the only window that was mounted with this litter clearance.

It would be far cheaper to have the shutter company put in an window jamb extension than to "move" the window out.

Whoever suggested that you should "move/push" the window out clearly don't know what they are doing or they just want to blame other people for their mistake for not checking the clearance when they did the measurement.

PCShutters wrote: ↑ It would be far cheaper to have the shutter company put in an window jamb extension than to "move" the window out.

Whoever suggested that you should "move/push" the window out clearly don't know what they are doing or they just want to blame other people for their mistake for not checking the clearance when they did the measurement.

Spoken by the ShutterMaster himself!

That sounds like a crazy idea to shift a window in the frame just to have the shutters fit properly. Adjust the size/position of the shutters, sounds like a much cheaper option.

PCShutters wrote: ↑ It would be far cheaper to have the shutter company put in an window jamb extension than to "move" the window out.

Whoever suggested that you should "move/push" the window out clearly don't know what they are doing or they just want to blame other people for their mistake for not checking the clearance when they did the measurement.

Extending the jamb and rejigging the trim was my next thought once I realized OP’s situation.

PCShutters wrote: ↑ It would be far cheaper to have the shutter company put in an window jamb extension than to "move" the window out.

Whoever suggested that you should "move/push" the window out clearly don't know what they are doing or they just want to blame other people for their mistake for not checking the clearance when they did the measurement.

Thanks!

I actually think they mentioned this to me when taking measurements, but I was really preoccupied with my crying baby haha. Moving the window was my inexperienced idea, not theirs.

When you say jamb extension (excuse my ignorance) does this simply mean a frame that extends out (top/bottom and sides). I have four other windows on the floor getting shutters (the floor is open and all windows can be seen). Would the jamb extension look "off", especially if the other windows don't need it. Do you have a few example pictures of what this would look like?

akashpatel wrote: ↑ Thanks!

I actually think they mentioned this to me when taking measurements, but I was really preoccupied with my crying baby haha. Moving the window was my inexperienced idea, not theirs.

When you say jamb extension (excuse my ignorance) does this simply mean a frame that extends out (top/bottom and sides). I have four other windows on the floor getting shutters (the floor is open and all windows can be seen). Would the jamb extension look "off", especially if the other windows don't need it. Do you have a few example pictures of what this would look like?

Normally, for your windows, we would use this frame:



This is what it would look like installed on a typical window.





Because you only need to a bit more room to clear the louvres, you can use smaller window jamb extension and it is barely noticeable. Our smallest jamb extension only extend it out by about 3/4". The ones in the pictures above extended by 2"