Banks is the southernmost suburb in Canberra and the exposure shows up in the shutters. Rob Roy Nature Reserve sits to the east and open country runs toward the Murrumbidgee on the western side, so wind arrives without much to slow it down. Shutters here rattle in their rails, and the rattle is more than noise. Every cycle of vibration works away at the brackets and the guide fixings.
We cover all of Banks in the 2906 postcode, from the Tharwa Drive side across to the streets facing the reserve. Conder and Gordon adjoin Banks directly and we service both, so a job in the Lanyon Valley is one trip for us rather than three separate ones.
Banks was gazetted in 1987 and built out through the late 1980s and 1990s. The housing is newer than most of Canberra, so what fails here is driven more by exposure than by age.
Shutters on the exposed elevations in Banks are worth checking more often than the ones on the sheltered side of the same house. Tightening guide fixings before they work loose is a small job. Realigning a curtain that has been running out of true for a whole season is a much bigger one. If yours has started to rattle noticeably, or it sounds different going up, that is usually the point to have someone look at it.
