Deakin started in the 1920s and filled out after the Second World War, which is why the shutters here sit on such a wide range of window types. A 1927 building, a 1950s house and a recent renovation can all be within a few hundred metres of each other. There is no single Deakin install. What is consistent is the climate. The frost is hard, the daily range is wide, and between them they find the weakest point in whatever hardware happens to be fitted.
We cover all of Deakin in the 2600 postcode, from the streets nearest Yarralumla through to the Hughes, Garran and Red Hill boundaries. Forrest and Curtin adjoin the suburb and we work right across the inner south, so a job in Deakin, Yarralumla or Forrest all sit on the same run for us.
A wide spread of construction dates, several heritage listed properties, and a lot of established planting.
Several Deakin properties carry heritage listings and many more sit in streets where the frontage is the point. Our approach on those is to keep what is there. Repairing existing hardware avoids changing how the front of a house reads and steers clear of the approval questions a visible replacement raises. Where a part genuinely cannot be saved we look for something that matches before suggesting anything that does not. It is also worth checking with your own records or an owners corporation before work starts, because a listing can apply to a whole precinct rather than to one address, and it is easier to confirm that beforehand than afterwards.
