Lawson gets a kind of weather the rest of Sydney does not. Winter mornings here are genuinely cold, fog sits in for days, rainfall is well above the coastal average and the temperature swing between a July night and a January afternoon is enormous. Shutters in the mountains are working against all of that.
We cover Lawson in the 2783 postcode and the neighbouring mountains villages of Hazelbrook, Bullaburra, Wentworth Falls and Woodford. Properties on both sides of the Great Western Highway are inside our area.
Housing in Lawson runs to weatherboard and fibro cottages, older mountain homes and a scattering of newer brick builds, most of them on blocks with heavy tree cover. Damp and cold reach parts of a shutter that would stay dry in Sydney.
A lot of mountains households use shutters for warmth as much as security, and a shutter that no longer seals at the bottom is letting heat out of the room all winter. That gap is worth closing. We also suggest cycling every shutter a few times through the colder months, because a unit left sitting for a whole season is far more likely to seize than one that gets used. If something is already stiff, deal with it before the next cold run rather than forcing it.
