Plenty of Farrer households run their shutters as much for warmth as for security. A closed shutter puts a layer of trapped air against the glass, and in a suburb where winter mornings sit below zero for weeks at a time that is doing real work. It also means a shutter that will not close fully leaves a cold room on the other side of it.
We cover Farrer in the 2607 postcode, along with Isaacs, Torrens, Mawson and Pearce. Farrer sits on the southern edge of Woden against the ridgeline reserves, so we take the whole southern Woden run together.
Farrer went up through the 1960s and into the 1970s, mostly single storey homes with large living room windows facing the sun. Shutters here are commonly fitted to the biggest openings, which is where the mechanical load is highest.
If you use your shutters for warmth, the parts that matter are the ones people ignore. The bottom seal, the brush strips in the rails and the fit at the top of the box decide whether you get an insulating layer or a draught. We check those when we are on site even when the call was about something else entirely. None of that is a big job, and all of it is easier to do before winter than during it.
