The window openings are what make Homebush jobs different. A great deal of the housing here went up between the wars, those openings were built by hand and have moved over ninety-odd years, and a shutter cut to a nominal size will find every millimetre of that movement.
We cover Homebush in the 2140 postcode, from the station precinct through the residential streets toward Strathfield and North Strathfield. Homebush West, Flemington and Concord West are on the same run.
Homebush is largely interwar brick, with California bungalows and later flats mixed through the older streets. Frames are frequently original timber, and a good portion of the suburb sits close to the rail line and to Parramatta Road.
Fitting or refitting a shutter to a house of this age is a measuring job before it is anything else. Every opening gets measured at the top, the middle and the bottom, because on a Homebush bungalow those three numbers are rarely the same. Working to the real dimensions rather than the nominal ones is the difference between a shutter that runs cleanly for years and one that starts catching within a season. Where an existing unit is binding, the answer is often a rail adjustment rather than a new shutter.
