Leichhardt terraces put ground floor windows straight onto the footpath, which is the main reason shutters go on them. It also means those units are on public view, they sit in streets with consistent Victorian frontages, and there is often no side access at all to work from.
We cover Leichhardt in the 2040 postcode, from the Norton Street precinct through the surrounding residential streets. Annandale, Lilyfield, Rozelle, Haberfield, Petersham and Stanmore are all on the same run.
The housing is predominantly Victorian and Federation terraces and semis, with narrow frontages, party walls and openings that were built by hand well over a century ago. Very few of those reveals are still square.
A shutter on a street-facing window in Leichhardt is doing three jobs at once, and a fault takes all of them away. If yours will not close, you have lost the security, the light control and a fair bit of the noise reduction in one go, so it is worth treating as urgent rather than something to get to eventually. Where the frontage falls inside a conservation area, we repair the existing hardware wherever it can be saved so the appearance of the terrace from the street is unchanged.
