Nearly every roller shutter in Croydon is a later addition to a much older house. The 2132 postcode is dominated by Federation housing with some earlier Victorian stock, and none of it was designed with an aluminium shutter and a headbox in mind. Working out how to fit and maintain modern hardware on a hundred year old opening is most of the job here.
We cover all of Croydon, from the streets around the station out to the Ashfield, Burwood and Croydon Park boundaries. Enfield, Strathfield and Five Dock are on the same inner west route, so we can often see more than one property in a morning.
Federation houses settle over a century, and the openings shift with them. A shutter that was installed level fifteen years ago can be running out of true today without anything obvious having happened.
Parts of Croydon fall inside conservation areas and a number of streets have kept a consistent original character. On a street facing window our preference is to repair the existing hardware wherever it can be saved, which keeps the elevation as it is and avoids the approval questions that come with visibly changing the front of a heritage listed house. At the rear we have far more latitude, and we will say where that line falls.
