Gallery

In daylight, and after closing.

A shutter is only half the picture until you have seen it down. These plates show frontages, shutters and doors of the kinds we fit, both ways, with a note on what to look at in each.

Reference photographs by the photographers credited under each plate. Photographs of our own finished work will join them here.

Black-framed glass entrance doors in a sunlit lobby — Fig. 1Slim black frames and full-height glass: framed, but only just. Photograph: Declan Sun, Unsplash.

A white-painted shopfront with glazed double doors — Fig. 2Glazed double doors centred in a painted frontage. Photograph: Taylor Vick, Unsplash.

A traditional painted timber shopfront on a stone building — Fig. 3Painted timber and a projecting entrance bay: the kind of frontage a conservation officer will want kept. Photograph: Sadia Afreen, Unsplash.

Roller shutters closed beneath a shop awning in daylight — Fig. 4Two shutters down on a shopping street, in daylight. Photograph: MAK, Unsplash.

Close view of steel roller shutter laths — Fig. 5Interlocking steel laths. The curtain is only as strong as the guides and locks that hold it. Photograph: engin akyurt, Unsplash.

A steel roller shutter closed within a stone doorway — Fig. 6A roller shutter closed in a stone surround, its guides running down each reveal. Photograph: Mariska Vereijken, Unsplash.

Glass sliding doors at a lit entrance at night — Fig. 7Glass sliding doors under a slim head, open before anyone reaches for a handle. Photograph: Declan Sun, Unsplash.

A rusted roller shutter covered in graffiti — Fig. 8Rust along the laths and years without a service: repairable, up to a point. Photograph: Annie Spratt, Unsplash.

A black steel door in a dark brick wall — Fig. 9Steel leaf, steel frame, closed flush with the wall. Photograph: Bernd Dittrich, Unsplash.

Fig. 10Detail at the bottom corner of a security shutter: guide, end locks and the bottom rail lock.