Most of Lurnea went up through the 1960s and 1970s and the housing has aged in a fairly consistent way. Brick and fibro homes on regular blocks, plenty of them extended since, and shutters added long after the house was finished. That retrofit history is where most of the trouble starts.
We cover all of Lurnea in the 2170 postcode and the neighbouring streets in Liverpool, Casula and Cartwright. Prestons and Ashcroft are on the same run.
South-western Sydney runs hot and dry through summer and shutters here work under real thermal load. Put that together with hardware that is often decades old and the failures become fairly predictable.
An old shutter is not automatically a write-off. Springs can be re-tensioned and straps replaced, and a bent rail can usually be brought back true. On a lot of Lurnea homes that is a better outcome than pulling a serviceable unit off the wall and starting again. We will tell you honestly when a repair is worth doing and when the hardware has genuinely reached the end of what it can give you. If you are unsure which you have, the weight tells you plenty. A shutter that has become noticeably harder to lift over the past year is losing spring tension rather than wearing out mechanically.
