The most common call we take from Florey is a shutter that goes halfway and stops. Nine times out of ten that is not a dead motor. It is a curtain binding in a rail that has moved, or a limit switch that has drifted out of setting, and both are straightforward once you have the box open.
We cover Florey in the 2615 postcode and the neighbouring streets through Latham and Scullin, down to the Belconnen town centre. Anywhere in the western half of Belconnen is a normal day for us.
Florey was developed in the late 1970s, mostly detached brick homes on regular blocks with a mix of later extensions and second storeys. Motorised retrofits are common here and many are now well past their first decade. Second storey additions also mean shutters at height, which changes how we get to them.
Before we open anything we work out whether the fault is electrical or mechanical, because the two look identical from the ground. A shutter that hums but will not move, one that travels in a single direction, and one that does nothing at all are three different problems with three different fixes. Establishing that first saves you paying for the wrong repair. Tell us exactly what the shutter does when you press the switch and we can often narrow it down before we get there.
