Solid brick houses from the 1960s and 1970s on generous blocks make up a lot of Carlingford, and the shutters on them have usually been added at least once and sometimes twice since the house was built. When something goes wrong here, the age of the house is rarely the issue. The age of the shutter and the quality of whoever installed it almost always is.
We cover Carlingford in the 2118 postcode, from the Pennant Hills Road corridor through the residential streets and out to the Epping, West Pennant Hills, North Rocks, Dundas Valley and Telopea boundaries. Newer apartment buildings along the main roads are part of our run here as well as the houses.
Retrofitted shutters on mid-century brick homes fail in ways that are fairly easy to predict once you have seen enough of them.
When a motorised shutter stops responding, the motor is the usual suspect and it is often innocent. Remotes lose their pairing, receivers fail, wall switches wear out, and a limit setting drifts so the shutter stops short of the sill. All of those present as a dead shutter and none of them need a new motor. Before you assume the worst, try the manual override if the unit has one. If the curtain moves freely by hand, the fault is in the controls rather than the mechanism, and that is usually the cheaper end of the job.
