Abbotsford sits on a peninsula with the Parramatta River on three sides, and that geography shapes almost every repair we do here. Salt-laden air reaches the whole of the 2046 postcode, so the corrosion we find on Abbotsford shutters tends to be further along than on an identical unit a few kilometres inland.
We cover the full peninsula, from the Great North Road shops down to Abbotsford Point and Blackwall Point Road, along with the streets running toward Chiswick and Five Dock. Waterfront properties along Hen and Chicken Bay get the worst of the salt exposure and are worth inspecting more often than the rest.
Abbotsford's housing is a mix of Federation and interwar homes with later additions, plus a growing number of apartments on the old industrial land near the river. Each brings its own failure pattern.
A good portion of Abbotsford falls within conservation areas, and shutters on those homes need to be dealt with carefully. We repair rather than replace wherever the hardware allows, which keeps the original look and avoids the approval questions that come with changing a street-facing elevation.
