Accordion Hurricane ShuttersSouthport, NC

Southport, Brunswick County

What accordion shutters cost in Southport, and the half of town they actually suit

Accordion hurricane shutters in Southport are $38/sq ft installed. That covers fabrication to your exact opening, side housings, tracks, stainless anchors, the permit and a design pressure calculation run on your house rather than to the Brunswick County minimum.

Where accordions earn their place here is the ring of newer development outside the old town — St. James Plantation, Indigo Plantation, Arbor Creek and the subdivisions along the highway. Those houses have more openings than a historic cottage, more glass per opening, and owners who are frequently closing up alone. An accordion unfolds along its track and latches from outside in well under a minute per window, with no ladder and no second person.

The HOA question comes up on nearly every St. James quote, and the honest answer is that accordions pass more often than people expect, because the housing sits flush beside the window rather than projecting. We powder-coat to any standard RAL finish, so matching trim is not the obstacle. Get the approval in writing before we fabricate, because every unit is cut to one specific opening and cannot be moved to another.

What accordions do not solve in Southport is appearance on an old house. On the small, close-set windows through the historic streets there is often not enough wall between openings for two housings, and where there is, the result reads as equipment rather than architecture. That is not a knock on the product. It is the reason the next section exists.