Winter and summer both take a toll on shutters in Isabella Plains, and they do it in opposite directions. The Tuggeranong valley floor holds cold air overnight through the colder months, then gets long stretches in the high thirties over summer. Hardware that has to move through that range every year wears out faster than the same unit would closer to the coast.
We cover the whole of Isabella Plains in the 2905 postcode, from the streets around the local shops through to the boundaries with Monash, Richardson, Bonython and Gowrie. Anything in the southern half of Tuggeranong falls on the same route.
Most of Isabella Plains went up through the 1980s, so a good number of the shutters here were added during a mid-life renovation rather than with the original build. Hardware of that age behaves in fairly predictable ways.
Isabella Plains gets the full run of a Canberra summer and unshaded aluminium expands more than people expect. A shutter that runs cleanly in July can stick badly in January on the same window, particularly on a west-facing elevation with no eave over it. If yours only jams in the heat, the answer is usually clearance in the rails and a clean-out rather than anything structural, and it is a quick job once someone has looked at it.
