Housing from three quite different eras sits on the one map in Lyneham. There are the early government cottages, the 1960s and 1970s infill, and the newer apartments along the Northbourne Avenue corridor. Shutter faults track those eras fairly closely, so the first thing we look at in Lyneham is the age of the building rather than the age of the shutter.
We cover Lyneham across the 2602 postcode, from the Northbourne Avenue frontage through to the streets running down towards Dickson and out to the O'Connor and Downer boundaries. Braddon and Watson are close enough to be on the same run.
The older housing stock in Lyneham was built with soft mortar and openings that have moved over sixty or seventy years. The later homes and apartments bring different faults, mostly around motors and controls rather than the building itself.
Fitting current shutter hardware to a house built seventy or eighty years ago is not just a matter of matching the measurements. The wall, the reveal and the lintel all need assessing before anything is anchored to them, and in plenty of Lyneham homes the right answer is a different fixing method rather than a bigger screw. Where a shutter has already been fitted badly we can usually re-anchor it properly without replacing the unit.
