What Makes a Faux Wood Shutter?

“Faux wood” is a term that gets used a lot with regards to interior design, from furniture to floors to window treatments. Technically, it just means “not wood, but similar to it.” Aside from that, you might not know what you have. So if you’re looking for faux wood shutters, faux wood blinds, or any other sort of faux wood window treatment in Riverside, what are you really buying for your windows?

Sunburst Shutters Riverside is here to help you discern the quality faux wood shutters from the less great ones. Here’s what you need to know.

Faux Wood Quality Ranges From Excellent To Rubbish

Faux wood is typically presented as a more inexpensive version of hardwood, but a good amount of faux wood products are more like a “cheap” version of hardwood. Most faux wood on the market is really just composite wood, which is a mix of wood chips, plastic, and glue, occasionally coated in vinyl. Almost all of these types of engineered materials aren’t durable, can’t really block noise or heat loss, and will most likely fade and lose their color after prolonged sun exposure.

Even worse, some faux wood shutters are hollowed out material, making them weaker, prone to chips and cracks, and poor insulators.

So while you may think you’re helping your wallet by picking faux wood window treatments, are you really getting much benefit from shutters you’ll likely need to replace after a short while? Are you getting much out of shutters that don’t help keep your space more comfortable or your utility bills lower?

Fortunately, not all faux wood shutters are made equal.

What To Look For In a High Quality Faux Wood Shutter

There are 3 things you should be on the look for in a high quality faux wood shutter:

• Durable, moisture-proof material

• No wrapped material around a wood chip base

• An extended warranty

Sunburst’s Polywood® plantation shutters were invented to succeed where most faux wood fails. Unlike cheaply constructed shutters made of wood pulp and vinyl, Polywood shutters are constructed from our exclusive Polywood extruded material, built to withstand the most extreme elements and take punishment that would make other shutters shatter.

Polywood shutters are also completely solid all the way through, so they’re not only sturdier and less susceptible to chips or cracks, but also better insulators to keep your home at a comfortable temperature.

And unlike many faux wood shutter products, Polywood shutters come with a comprehensive Lifetime Warranty.

Some shutter builders may try to market their faux wood shutters as a similar “poly” compound, but know that there’s only one Polywood®.

Get Riverside’s Best Faux Wood Shutters

If you want to move on from off-the-shelf faux wood shutters that don’t get the job done, get in touch with Sunburst Riverside today. Get a design consultation using the form below or call us at 951-517-3030.