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A bathroom window has weather of its own: steam every morning, splash every bath night. PVC louvres are the shutter built for that climate, and they happen to solve the bathroom's other problem, privacy with the light still on.
Why PVC in a wet room
Painted timber is furniture. Furniture does not enjoy a hot shower. PVC shutters are waterproof through and through, so the daily steam cycle that would eventually lift paint and swell timber does nothing at all here. When the louvres dust up or fog leaves its film, they wipe down with a damp cloth and look fitted-yesterday again.
They carry the same made-to-measure discipline as the rest of our work: frames built to the reveal, panel splits set around taps and sills, blades sized to the pane.
Privacy and airflow in the one window
Most bathroom windows around here look at a fence, a side path or the neighbour's wall, close enough that frosted glass or a stick-on film ends up doing the privacy work and killing the light with it. Louvres do it better: tilt them up and the window passes soft daylight while the sight-line from outside is gone. Then, because a wet room needs to breathe, swing or crack the panels and let the window vent the steam out, blades still holding the privacy while it does.
- Bathrooms and ensuites, over baths and beside showers
- Laundries, where the tub splashes and the dryer makes its own fog
- Kitchens near the sink, where a timber blade would live a hard life
One honest limit: PVC blades are heavier than timber, so very wide single panels are better split or stepped down a blade width. That is a set-out decision we make at the measure, window by window.
Not a lesser shutter. The right shutter for a room that rains on itself.
Questions we hear about PVC shutters
Do they look different from the timber ones?
Side by side in the same room, barely. The blade profile and the painted-white finish read the same at arm's length. The difference is what happens to them after five years of steam, which is nothing.
Can they go in the rest of the house too?
They can, and in some hard-wearing rooms it is a fair call. Where looks lead and the room is dry, timber keeps a slight edge in finish, which is why we lead with it there. Material by room, not one material everywhere.
What about mould?
PVC gives mould nothing organic to feed on, and the wipe-down surface means the film it needs never gets established. Ventilation still matters, which is another point for louvres you can open.
Which way does yours face?
Tell us the rooms that struggle, and when they struggle. We'll come out, stand in each one at the window, measure properly, and quote the shutters that suit the light your house actually gets. The measure and the quote cost nothing.