The call we take most often from Latham is a shutter that will not travel all the way down, or one that has stopped halfway and will not move in either direction. In a suburb built out in the 1970s that is usually a spring or a guide problem rather than a motor, and in most cases it is repairable without replacing the unit.
We cover Latham throughout the 2615 postcode, including the streets around the local shops and the sections bordering Macgregor, Higgins, Florey and Flynn. Charnwood and the rest of west Belconnen fall on the same run.
Latham is mostly single-storey brick homes from the 1970s on flat to gently sloping blocks. Shutters here are overwhelmingly retrofits, and a good number are now on their second or third set of moving parts.
Belconnen mornings get cold enough that a shutter left down overnight can be frozen into its rail by dawn. Running the motor against ice is the single most common way a working shutter in Latham becomes a broken one. If yours will not move on a frosty morning, leave it alone, let the sun get to it and try again later in the day. If it still will not shift, that is the point to call someone rather than to force it.
