Five Dock sits back from the water rather than on it, and that one fact changes how shutters age here compared with Abbotsford or Chiswick nearby. Salt still reaches the 2046 postcode, just more slowly, so corrosion tends to be found during a service rather than after a failure.
We cover the whole of Five Dock, including the streets around the shops and out to the Russell Lea, Wareemba, Rodd Point, Abbotsford and Canada Bay boundaries. Haberfield and Croydon are on the same route through the inner west.
The housing mixes Federation and interwar homes with post war brick and a great deal of duplex development. On a duplex the two halves are often the same age but have been maintained very differently.
Where two dwellings share a wall, work on one side sometimes needs cooperation from the other, particularly if the guide rail sits near the boundary or the power supply is shared. It is worth having the conversation with your neighbour before we arrive rather than on the day. If both sides want their shutters looked at together, that is usually the simplest way to handle it, and it means we only need to set up access along the boundary once.
