ᐅ Removing a roller shutter box? Should the guide rail be taken off as well?
Created on: 1 Nov 2025 12:28
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krischaaan1 Nov 2025 12:28Hello experts,
I have a problem. The roller shutter on our house has torn after 7 years.
We have an internally closed roller shutter box from Beck and Heun.
How do I remove the shutter? From the outside? It used to be easy—just remove the inner cover and you could access the roller tube.
How do I remove the guide rails? Are they clipped in? I don’t see any screws.
Do they absolutely have to be removed? They are plastered in.
I’m attaching pictures.
Thanks a lot for your help!!

I have a problem. The roller shutter on our house has torn after 7 years.
We have an internally closed roller shutter box from Beck and Heun.
How do I remove the shutter? From the outside? It used to be easy—just remove the inner cover and you could access the roller tube.
How do I remove the guide rails? Are they clipped in? I don’t see any screws.
Do they absolutely have to be removed? They are plastered in.
I’m attaching pictures.
Thanks a lot for your help!!
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hanghaus20231 Nov 2025 14:15K
krischaaan1 Nov 2025 14:19The picture shows another identical window.
The other one is downstairs, so I can’t take a photo.
The cover is clear, but do I need to remove the tracks, and how do they come off? Regards
The other one is downstairs, so I can’t take a photo.
The cover is clear, but do I need to remove the tracks, and how do they come off? Regards
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hanghaus20231 Nov 2025 17:58The cover is removed, then you can access the roller shutter. If the roller shutter is fully lowered, this should not be a problem. The guides are embedded in the wall, so why would you need to remove them?
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krischaaan1 Nov 2025 18:16hanghaus2023 schrieb:
The cover will be removed, then you can access the roller shutter. If the roller shutter is down, that shouldn’t be a problem. The guides are plastered in, right? Why would you remove them?hanghaus2023 schrieb:
The cover will be removed, then you can access the roller shutter. If the roller shutter is down, that shouldn’t be a problem. The guides are plastered in, right? Why would you remove them?I need to get quite far down, but I can’t just take it out of the guides so easily, can I? Let alone put it back in…
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hanghaus20231 Nov 2025 19:44What exactly has cracked? Could you possibly describe a bit better what happened and how it occurred?
If you remove the outer cover, you can unthread the roller shutter over the guide rails.
If you remove the outer cover, you can unthread the roller shutter over the guide rails.