Heat is the defining condition for shutters in Cambridge Park. Penrith has recorded some of the hottest temperatures ever measured anywhere in the Sydney basin, and a run of forty degree afternoons does things to aluminium and to motors that a mild coastal summer never will. Most of the summer callouts we take from this part of Penrith come down to expansion, not to breakage.
We cover Cambridge Park in the 2747 postcode along with Cambridge Gardens, Werrington and Llandilo, and Penrith, Kingswood and St Marys are all on the same western run. It is a regular route for us, so bookings out here do not sit waiting.
The housing here is largely postwar and 1960s to 1970s brick and fibro on regular blocks, with shutters that have been retrofitted at various points since.
The way to avoid a January jam is to deal with the clearance in the guides before summer starts, because a rail that is merely tight in spring will be too tight in January. Clearing and re-lubricating the rails is a small job and it prevents most of what we get called out for. If a shutter has already stuck in the heat, leave it and call. Forcing a bound curtain is how a simple clean-out turns into a set of bent slats.
