We see a very wide age range of shutters in Hawker, from installations pushing forty years to ones fitted last year. The suburb is one of the older parts of Belconnen, developed from the late 1960s, and most homes have been through at least one renovation since. What is on the wall depends entirely on when that renovation happened.
We cover Hawker in the 2614 postcode along with Weetangera, Page, Scullin, Macquarie and Higgins. Central and western Belconnen are covered as one area.
The stock is late 1960s and early 1970s brick, single storey in the main, with aluminium frames and a good deal of later work. Almost every shutter is a retrofit. Window sizes are consistent across the era, which helps when a rail or a guide has to be matched.
Where a house has shutters of different ages, they need different things. A recent motorised unit generally needs its settings checked and its rails cleared. A forty year old manual unit next to it may need parts that are no longer made. We assess each one on its own rather than quoting the house as a single item, so you can decide what to spend where. On a house with four or five units that usually means fixing two now and leaving the rest until they need it.
